Yeah, well,
#5 will never see the light of day.
“Nature” will sort everything out. Eventually.
One very good thing out of this (looking for silver lining) is that -
The ambitious Galactic Emperor Xi’s “One Belt One Road” project to remake 21st Century to be the Chinese Global Superpower Dynasty [and more importantly to replace USA as the global leader] is (should be) going to take a lot longer to complete.
They (ChiComm) may still be a regional heavyweight in their neck of the woods, but dominating globally? Nobody’s going to trust them, if we are smart and if we are lucky.
To borrow Sen. Kennedy’s (John, not Ted) phrase: “This country was founded by geniuses, but run by idiots”.