Posted on 09/26/2022 6:18:33 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
In other words, it’s far from fated that China’s rise will track forever upward. The United States and China may never reach the crossover point envisioned by exponents of the “Thucydides Trap”—the point beyond which Chinese power outstrips American, giving Beijing the upper hand in the Western Pacific. But Brands and Beckley argue rightly that an impending stall in China’s rise doesn’t mean the coming years will be free from U.S.-China conflict. In fact, the opposite could well be true.
A China on the threshold of decline is a dangerous China—as Clausewitz might prophesy were he among the quick today.
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Xi Jinping might need to to shore up his shaky economy.
China doesn’t want war with America, we are far and away their biggest customer. They want us to collapse from within, via Civil War, and turn into a socialist state.
They will covertly work towards this, just as they covertly absorbed Honk Kong, and will eventually absorb Taiwan covertly as well.
We are told by the ‘expurts’ that China has no chance to cross a 100 mile strait to invade Taiwan and those same ‘expurts’ now claim China is ready to cross clear across the globe to invade the continental US. Yeah, ummm NO!
And destroy their biggest retail market/customer?
Wal-Market, Harbor Freight and the Dollar Store hit hardest...
The ChiComs took the Solomons without firing a shot.
They bought it.
See where I’m going with this...?
Invasion is soooo old school.
We’ve followed it here at FR since 1998.
Russia began building them up in the 90’s, selling and transferring tech.
As for the genesis, Kissinger’s negative impact on the world can’t be overstated.
And the USA has already surrendered. What I don’t understand is that in 2004 a Chinese American in the FBI leaked naval technology to the Chinese Communist Party. Why didn’t George W Bush immediately shut down its trade deals with China instead of giving them a pass?
Ah the wonderful warmonger neocons, deep state and I’ll throw in the military industrial complex. They have been walking clusterf*&ks since the Cold War ended. They have failed in the intelligence aspect untold numbers of times resulting in the deaths and maiming of thousands of American GI’s and civilians and yet no one is fired, no one is held accountable, all are promoted and they continue their reign of terror. If they can get us and the Russians to nuke each other we can hand the remaining world over to the Chicoms without them firing a shot-brilliant! Of course these grads of the special ed schools haven’t figured out that there won’t be anything left to run, control or fight another war with and most likely they will no longer exist but then again they think they are indestructible and never wrong.
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