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I also read China’s long-term goal is pretty much to rule the world. I’m sure they have been wanting to kick the USA out of the top spot for leadership for a long time.

I’ve had a benevolent attitude toward China. Maybe it’s time to start building some guard walls just to be on the safe side. “The Great Wall of America”? I will never trust their communist ideology. I can’t imagine the hell the Chinese people must have gone through and still are. Most probably don’t even know they are in a living hell of anti-freedom. They were born into it and don’t know any better.

The Chinese don’t think in terms of decades or next year like we do. They look at the long-term 100 year changes with great patience. They probably believe they can turn Hong Kong into their commie utopia over time through propaganda and infiltrating schools like the commies have done here in the USA. They may be right.

You can bet they are a part of the gun-control/gun-grabber communist mentality here in America today. Can’t defeat a nation that can protect itself from behind every blade of grass with sporting and hunting rifles. I bet VA governor Northam is a Chinese plant. He looks like he’s had his brain scrambled.

.....”You can bet they are a part of the gun-control/gun-grabber communist mentality here in America today”.....

Certainly and when the social media lights up they have huge teams ready to push gun control, create fear, anxiety and guilt. They’re also fueling alot of the populations anger and hate via the internet etc. They intnd to demoralize our society and create division.....and the Dems play along.

[I also read China’s long-term goal is pretty much to rule the world.]

I think everyone wants to rule the world in some fashion. Some of it is writing their names in bold in the history books. Some of it is taking the machinery of government they control out for a spin. If you acquired a Maserati, wouldn’t you want to redline it at least once?

Guys in politics are even more prone to risk-taking than even people in showbiz. Some want to put the pedal to the metal - all the time. That was what Alexander’s venture to conquer the world was all about. That was, IMO, what motivated Caesar’s campaigns, whether against the Gauls or his fellow Romans. It certainly motivated Hitler - instead of piecemeal acquisitions followed by assimilation that might continue for generations after his death, he chose to find out for himself whether Germany was up to prevailing over every major power simultaneously, in his lifetime.

In the West, every ruler went forth and expanded against every other, until the devastation left at the WWII basically forced a retrenchment. Today, they want to make everyone live by their rules. Global warming, alphabet soup promotion, etc. China, though, like every country not in the West, including Russia, wants to rule the world in the old-fashioned way. By adding provinces.

[The Chinese don’t think in terms of decades or next year like we do. They look at the long-term 100 year changes with great patience. ]

My impression is that dictatorships are very short-term oriented. In China, Xi Jinping needs to worry about both elite mutiny and popular revolt (big factors in Chinese history to a degree unmatched in the West). At the same time, Chinese rulers are every bit as ambitious as their predecessors. Making your mark meant adding provinces from the territory of neighboring kingdoms.

So Xi Jinping will eventually take the machinery of government out for a spin re incorporating neighboring lands into the empire. But only when the odds aren’t too lop-sided. Japan made its move at Pearl when its economy was 1/9 the size of its American counterpart. China’s economy is currently 1/2 to 2/3 of the US. Xi Jinping’s move is coming.

The following graphics show the evolution of Chinese boundaries to the point that it is the 3rd largest country in the world:

https://www.timemaps.com/history/china-2500bc/

These boundaries weren’t created by tribal leaders singing kumbaya around a campfire.