Commentary Much of the world is having an enlightening moment with China. Recall that China began the last decade by positioning itself as a global benefactor. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was supposed to be a beneficial foreign aid and development program. Other economic and cultural outreach efforts supplied nations with financing and cultural exchanges that have served Beijing well. The Shine Is Off But foreign aid debt traps and spyware scandals certainly took some of the shine off China’s global reputation. The world started to open its eyes. Then the launch and spread of the CCP virus pandemic, along with the hoarding of medical supplies and finger-wagging from Beijing about the West’s response failures, shattered any remaining goodwill that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders worked so hard to sell the world in the past. Killing millions and laughing about it was just too big to ignore. Today, nations …