Why China Believes America Will Flame Out

ch_sm

https://archive.is/We6GM

lom888

Wang Huning, then a little-known academic, was moved by his travels through the U.S. to write the book America Against America, in which he described a nation beset by social fragmentation, inequality, and political dysfunction. Shocked by the country’s problems of homelessness, drug addiction, racial violence, social divisions, and low education standards, Wang concluded that America contained the seeds of its own destruction. I would love to see poll numbers how many red and blue would prefer to be ruled by the Chinese than to the opposing domestic tribe. I suspect it may be one thing that unites them...

justinclift

> This is why China believes that the surest path to international power is not through a direct confrontation but through patience. They've had plenty of time to demonstrate the "patience" approach. Instead of that, they're certainly playing the direct confrontation card in the "South China" sea. ie everyone else's territory that happens to be wet in the rough direction of China That's not a "patience" approach.