Source: https://www.wsj.com/world/how-america-inadvertently-created-an-axis-of-evasion-led-by-china-0a9bc477
Article is paywalled by the way, but you get the jist from the first paragraphs anyway, “oh no, we can’t subdue the US’s enemies, ahem, i mean “authoritarian enemies of democracy” through unilateral coercive measures, sorry, “sanctions” anymore, blah, blah, blah…”.
I mean kind of makes sense that wasps would see the economy that the global majority participates in as the shadow economy, while the one dominated by the western minority as the glorious legitimate economy.