Not all warfare is kinetic. Make no mistake: China is AT WAR with us right now: diplomatic, information, economic, cyber, biological, IP theft, industrial espionage, illegal drugs and human trafficking, propaganda, psychological operations, etc etc... everything just barely below the level of openly armed conflict. Most of it nonattributional.
What’s the difference if “someone” unleashes a computer virus that shuts down a US port? Would you feel better if the Chinese just sank a US Navy ship in the main channel with a bomb from a PLA carrier plane? At least the second way we know who did it.
CCP-controlled China is a bigger threat than the Soviet Union or Al-Qaeda ever was. It’s just more subtle and less obvious. While our coporate media focuses on identity-politcs, hoaxes and Kim Kardashian, China is advancing rapidly in 5G, artifical intelligence, chip manufacturing, etc. Our moron deep-staters do not realize the nature of the problem and our corrupt politicials (owned by corporations whose executives and shareholders profit greatly from China) will not do anything.
China’s list of misdeeds is quite long. Genocide in Tibet, XinJiang, suppression and culture eradication in Inner Mongolia, Yunan, illegal takeover of HongKong and South China Sea islands, threatening Taiwan & India, spying on their and our citizens, wildlife meat markets, depleting ocean fish stocks, horrific pollution, stealing US military technology, providing nukes to Pakistan, etc etc. And now, Covid.
“China is a respectable nation. I deeply believe that”
-Dianne Feinstein