Pleaseee..
I have a client whom my wife and I recently had dinner with...
He worked at the US Embassy in China...
Married a woman from China...
(OK ..that is one of the reasons I really wanted to get together with them NOW... guilty as charged
)
Let's just say my INFO is WAY MORE LEGIT
than what you got out of a magazine...
My friend says China treats this like a game of Mah-Jong...
Strategic...Detached...BUT playing to not only WIN...but to DOMINATE...
And they play the LONG GAME...
They will win by DEATH from a THOUSAND CUTS..
China doesn't mind taking LOSSES...
As long as in the end, we LOSE MORE...
ZERO SUM GAME...
WAR BY ATTRITION...
They have BILLIONS of people...no big deal
Their LEADER, Xi Jinping, is a DICTATOR with an EXTENSIVE background in Chemical Engineering...
They don't believe in the OLD SCHOOL war with BOOTS on the ground or NUKES in the AIR...
TOO MUCH COLLATERAL DAMAGE ..
Xi Jinping wants to OWN and MASTER 2 THINGS in PARTICULAR...
VIRUSES
BIOCHEM...
TECHNOLOGY
MUCH HARDER to see coming and to trace back to the SOURCE...
They know if they lead the WORLD in THOSE fields...
They WIN...PERIOD
So ENOUGH of your naive nonsense...
And BTW...
This has ZERO to do with the Chinese people in general....
Anymore than the German people should be BLAMED for Hitler...