“We pretend it is not a centerpiece of our motivation, yet we keep confirming that it is,” Frederick D. Barton, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said in a telephone interview. “And we undermine our own veracity by citing issues like sovereignty, when we have our hands right in the middle of it.”
SURPRISE, SURPRISE---NOT!

They have built a US embassy fit for an empire there is on 104 acres, with 21 buildings and facilities. It houses a U.S. staff of more than 5,000. According to a recent report in the Washington Post, it has more than twice the staff and 20 times the budget of our Beijing embassy. The embassy will surpass all others in terms of size and staffing.

And they said they doing it for us? Our kids? Or their own? Not forgetting themselves. Of course.