Recent days, people all over the world are busy clearing the debris from the earthquake of \u201cExecutive Orders\u201d and embracing for more afterquakes. <\/p>\n
These Orders, simply and joyfully signed by a certain country, are shocking the entire globe. From freeze of assistance, to raising of tariffs, to relocating of overseas Diasporas, by tens of thousands and possibly more, from this country and the continent. People are worried and resented. But the best can be done is to oblige and pray. <\/p>\n
The administration that signed those orders, is successful in keeping this continent at arm’s length when coming to aid and assistance.In the mean time, according to a member of this country\u2019s Congress, its foreign aid money may have been used to fund terrorist groups around the world, including Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
The administration is successful, in flip-flopping, time and again, international pledges its country solemnly made.This time by withdrawing from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement, and counting. This is nothing short of rolling back the wheel of history. And the argument used? The world owes this Administration and the country it represents. <\/p>\n
The administration is successful, in coining new words like MAGA.What do people see in it? Half lamentation, half echo of the past, half menace of the future.<\/p>\n
Far too long, the administration and the country it represents, is viewed by many as a beacon, a lighthouse. It compels nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt to its modality; it compels them to introduce what it calls democratic civilization into their midst. In short, it wants to create a world after its own image. <\/p>\n
People are reckoning, and awakening.The illusion of beacon have been drowned into the icy water of the country\u2019s egotistical calculation. High falutin phrases like human rights and democracy are but its masquerade of hypocrisy and double standard. <\/p>\n
People disdain to conceal their views. Name of the country? The Ultra Selfish Armstrong.The writing is on the wall.<\/p>\n
{{(The author, Gang Ping is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Xinhua News, Global Times, China Daily, CGTN etc. He can be reached at gangping1a2@gmail.com.)}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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