Biden’s inauguration marks the hegemony of an American oligarchy that sees its relationship with China as a shield and sword against their own countrymen. They are not simply contemptuous of a political system that recognizes the natural rights of all its citizens that are endowed by our creator; they despise in particular the notion that those they rule have the same rights they do.
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The Thirty Tyrants - Tablet Magazine
The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
The new American oligarchy believes that democracy’s failures are proof of their own exclusive right to power—and they are happy to rule in partnership with a foreign power that will help them destroy their own countrymen.
The ruling elite enabled China's metastatic parasitism of American academic, economic and cultural undergirdings.