• Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    The president of a miscellaneous Global South nation was walking along the beach with Xi Jinping.

    “Xi,” said the President, sometimes it feels like you’re there for us, but sometimes it feels like you’ve abandoned us.

    Xi bade the President to look back along the two sets of tracks they had made on the beach.

    “My like-minded good friend,” said Xi Jinping, “the Chinese people have been walking hand-in-hand with you ever since we stood up in 1949.”

    “But Xi,” said the President again, “sometimes one pair of footsteps veers away.”

    “Those are the times you turned to the Americans.” Xi pointed to where the straying footsteps came to an abrupt stop at an ice cream truck. “But we have always been here to resume walking together once your people grew weary of being fed junk food.”