Our interest payments to China finance their military, right?
Nice fear porn, but China has liquidated nearly all US Bonds, our biggest debtors are the US citizen bond holders, the UK, and Japan.
Research is your friend.
I just finished reading one of the most depressing, yet spot on books that I view as a watershed book in my life as a pathway to understanding the world we are going to face for the foreseeable future:
War Without Rules : China's Playbook for Global Domination For those who don't know this author, he is one of the most brilliant men I have seen standing up for the interests of our country in the past 30 years.
FROM THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS:
Dr. Robert S. Spalding III, Brig Gen, USAF (Ret.) was a B-52 and B-2 pilot, and is the CEO of SEMPRE. (SEMPRE is a standalone 5G service and software platform designed to power the automated world. SEMPRE is defense-grade hardened and built for data security. SEMPRE will withstand the rigors of First Responder and military needs but is available to protect Americans here at home.)
Dr. Spalding is an innovator and accomplished national security policy strategist. He has served in senior positions of strategy and diplomacy within the Defense and State Departments for more than 26 years, retiring as brigadier general. He was the chief architect for the current widely praised National Security Strategy and the Senior Director for Strategy to the President at the National Security Council. Robert’s innovation while serving in the White House has led to a reset in national security and public policy regarding telecommunications in the U.S. as well as globally.
He is an interesting guy. As active duty Air Force, he learned to speak mandarin fluently (on the Air Force's dime) and took a "sabbatical" again, being paid full time for his rank by the military (plus a stipend, I am sure) lived in Communist China for several years, got an advanced degree (MBA I think, back around 2008) in their universities, and lived among the population. His job was to learn everything he could about the culture in the Communist Chinese country. How they worked. How they learned. What their philosophies on things were. He wasn't a spy. They knew full well who he was.
I will start a thread on this man and his work someday soon, I think it is that important.
He lost his job on the NSC (and as the chief cyberwarfare expert to the Joint Chiefs of Staff) for speaking out about the danger of letting the USA and the rest of the world allowing Communist China to create and build the infrastructure for our 5G networks. He spoke out and got fired for it, but raised the alarm.