China’s trade-war weapon against the US: ancient proverbs

Earlier this month, the 2020 US presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg whipped out a proverb in retort after president Donald Trump mocked him about holding his own on the world stage. “I was thinking of a Chinese proverb that goes ‘When the wind changes, some people build walls, some people build windmills,'” Buttigieg said. It wasn’t immediately clear what Chinese proverb he may have been referring to, though a quick Google search brings up dramatically-lit photos of windmills overlaid with the proverb in question.