From 5G to tricycles: The geopolitics of a rusting American ego  

The tricycle that broke the narrative 

Let us pause to appreciate the sheer, unscripted comedy of it all. 

The “China threat” — once a specter conjured to justify trillion-dollar defense budgets, hypersonic missile programs, and a new Cold War architecture across the Pacific — has now been reduced to trembling before a three-wheeled farm vehicle that costs less than an iPhone. 

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