The state department really saying the quiet part out loud, so this is a reminder that the ideology of the state department resulted in the Chinese exclusion act, an immigration policy so disgustingly evil that Hitler called it “inspirational”
The state department also has not had any meaningful reform since that time, leading to the unsurprising mindset of “this is the first time we will have a great power competitor that is not caucasian.”
CONTENT WARNING: Quote from Hitler
“(America is) the leader in developing explicitly racist policies of nationality and immigration” it was his only example of a country that “already pays obeisance, at least in tentative first steps, to the characteristic völkisch” [racial nationalism/ conception of the state.] “(There is) currently one state in which one can observe at least weak beginnings of a better conception. This is of course not our exemplary German Republic, but the American Union, in which an effort is being made to consider the dictates of reason to at least some extent. The American Union categorically refuses the immigration of physically unhealthy elements, and simply excludes the immigration of certain races.”
Definitely but tbh I would argue it's relatively recent. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the west switched to Islamic terrorism as their reason for militarism and invasion. From what I have seen, the switch to china has been in the works but it's has only really become certain over the past few years.
The crossover was around 2016 when focus went from Daesh to China
I think that's a good point to call the pivot