Excellent response.
We can't blame China but we don't have to like it.
One issue we tend to overlook is that the US has paved the way for general wealth to be created by open markets . . . China doesn't believe in open markets if they don't conform to its idea of trade, which is always linked politically. And NO, the US doesn't always link it to politics or it wouldn't be in he shit it finds itself in.
One can be critical of US politics, murdering innocent people thousands of miles away, having an unjust social system at home etc... but doing a Klondyke/OhOh and recently sabang is simply ridiculous. Using terms like drinking 'US Koolaid' is sophomoric at best.
Yup . . . in a nutshell. We can see this fairly well everywhere in Asia, the Pacific, Africa etc . . . while the 'west' looks to the medium term, China is happy to look at the symbolic 99 years . . . though why they think their system will survive that long is incomprehensible.