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Forget Russia. China is going to be the west's big rival. I find this to be a very interested read. Perhaps what I find most stunning is the idea that China will in the future start a massive cultural war in the west in order to make people stop supporting democracy and human rights. I also find it interesting how China is basically proving how horrible the west's free trade policies are working.
China's rise will trouble its neighbors before it affects US. Already Japan, Vietnam, Phillippines and India are building their Forces to tackle the rising threat.
I don't expect you to agree but the truth is that the Chinese take a very long term view of this stuff and there is no question that they are ramping up militarily and positioning themselves in accord with this strategy. Initially they will turn the South China Sea into a Chinese lake, exercise hegemony over the countries surrounding the South China Sea and then begin to push US influence back across the Pacific. Articles and books being written in China today are just like Mein Kampf, they are telling us exactly what they're going to do. But given that a significant portion our population believes in embedding their heads firmly in the sand and has no since of history or geopolitics, we are ignoring it.
I can't stand this kind of ignorance. Why is it that people think this is is how economic or political/social change works? Did Rome stand strong for a thousand years before just suddenly collapsing without warning because of a single policy?
Nations don't just collapse. They fall into a state of slow but consistent decay. There are of course rare cases like the great depression where nations can just almost outright collapse, but such events are very rare.
I don't expect you to agree but the truth is that the Chinese take a very long term view of this stuff and there is no question that they are ramping up militarily and positioning themselves in accord with this strategy. Initially they will turn the South China Sea into a Chinese lake, exercise hegemony over the countries surrounding the South China Sea and then begin to push US influence back across the Pacific. Articles and books being written in China today are just like Mein Kampf, they are telling us exactly what they're going to do. But given that a significant portion our population believes in embedding their heads firmly in the sand and has no since of history or geopolitics, we are ignoring it.
They've done a impressive job of pushing a little bit at a time. Not enough that we can justify doing something about it.
Its basically the political and economic version of cooking crab.
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