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China’s Bully Diplomacy Fails Abroad
At home, Chinese officials may have managed to shore up their power amid the COVID-19 outbreak. But at what cost?
The world’s most powerful man is arguably no longer the President of the United States. The Chinese Communist Party’s Xi Jinping- and since he eliminated term limits in 2018, his successor, Xi Jinping- has eclipsed the office of the U.S. President and no one dare challenge him now.
America’s so-called military advantages over China are questionable, at best. Simulated Pentagon war games over the past decade, recently declassified, suggest the U.S. would probably lose in a war.
It isn’t just a game, either. A leading Chinese think tank just advised the CCP to prepare for war with the U.S. after describing tensions between the two super-powers as the worst they’ve been since Tiananmen Square. As if the CCP needed this advice.
China’s economy, having recovered from COVID-19 far faster than its Western counterparts, is already humming again. More than that, what economists predicted would take decades- namely that China’s economy would grow larger than that of the U.S.- is now on track to happen in less than five years.
China beat the U.S. on 5G, has a franchise on rare earth elements and spends more to bring new technology to the marketplace- by a considerable sum.