Very few Americans understand how grave the Chinese threat is.
We defeated the USSR because we outproduced them. Our citizens had a higher standard of living that theirs envied and our military was so well equipped the couldn’t compete.
How do we do the same to China when most of what Americans earn is shipped east in exchange for knick knacks and baubles?
China played the long game.
The Mao years were all about purging all foreign influence on China. Once that was accomplished, China had a plan to trap the West by offering cheap labor and manufacturing with the promise of opening up their markets to a billion Chinamen.
And now that trap is about to slam shut.