You know that your remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But you are amusing yourself, for it is your adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since they believe in words. You delight in acting in bad faith, since you seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. You are completely aware of the absurdity of your reply.

It requires stunning amounts of ignorance to think that China is a dictatorship.