[PIF]

You are so far off base with your wild theories which do not reflex CCP ideology or thinking that it is not worth pursuing this discussion.

[flamberge]

I appreciate your professional military background in these matters.

I have lived and worked in China.

My speculations are based upon experience with people there. They were not stupid people at all. They were infused with a cultural-inspired vindictiveness that could make them quite capable of self-destructive factional disputes at the moment of their greatest victories.

We have analogous weaknesses in our own culture.

I stand by my expectation that first use of nuclear weapons in this century will be China vs China.