Bet on the ChiCom being doped up
The ChiComs are big cheaters. About 12-15 yrs ago they started winning a lot of swimming events at World Championships and Olympics...and it stopped once they got busted for doping. They claimed they were using some “special seaweed”
And, Michelle Smith was a huge cheater. I remember when Janet Evans called her out for doping...and they tried to use that “sore loser” tag on Evans (like some poster in this thread has done). Evans was right....Smith was busted (she was so doped that she skipped testing...and one test used someone else’s urine)....and Smith’s husband was later busted for PED peddling.
The Commies have always cheated....and Communist China is no exception. Unfortunately, too many on the “conservative” side give Commie China a pass because of their support for liberal ideas on free trade and globalism
Free Trade is a conservative ideal. It is quite simply Freedom of Association applied to economics.
If you can’t compete with China, the conservative action is either to find a way to compete, or to compete on a different battlefield - hopefully one where you have the advantages.
Liberals - on the other hand - invoke false flag patriotism to try to impose protectionism. They gleefully increase the tax load on their countrymen, they enlarge Government (with all that lovely tariff money) and they get to feather-bed their beloved unions.