Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
The latest supposed Chinese existential threat is not to be assessed by how fast and impressively the nation rose from its own prior weakness, poverty, and irrelevance. What matters instead is to what degree its innate system ensures that such ascendance will be permanently continued and whether its political system, food and fuel capacity, military, and scientific community are on par with those of America’s. And so far, in these regards, China, like all the other rivals of the last hundred years, has not come close.
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