You and Ricky Page aver that there is progress *only* because US elites want it, while my sarcastic response tried to imply that it might be more complicated than that. But somehow I'm the one with a simplistic view?
As for the rest, I don't think we could discuss this productively. Your "invitation to the table" remark indicates you think it is all a matter of citizenship, recognition, and propriety. I think those are at best secondary factors. We would just be talking past one another.