07-10-2023, 12:38 PM
(07-10-2023, 12:33 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I think about this often. We created a monster in China. We have to get ahead of this quickly, both militarily and politically before it's too late. Worse yet, it's not something that just crept up on us. We saw the warning signs and continued business as usual.
We ignored them because people were making money and donating to politicians to keep things as they were. Clinton deserves the blame for kickstarting this whole mess, but every administration since has perpetuated it. Honestly, the most hostile administration to China was probably Trump, but I don't have solid evidence in that regard, nor do I really care to dig deep and research that.
I have to give China credit, they realized early they couldn't be a pariah nation like the USSR and succeed, so they played on our greed. All the while stealing trillions of dollars in trade and military secrets. They're the closest to 1984 a nation has ever got, and they'll likely finish the job in a generation of two. Woe to anyone who falls under their yoke.
