Yeah, he’s fed this irrational fear-mongering from everywhere he looks. Including things like Epoch Times (or whatever that RW newspaper is) , from which he sometimes sends actual paper clippings.

The China hysteria seems to have gripped him hard in the past few years. Think he admitted he belongs to a reading group or something based on concerns about Chinese hegemony. So I love to tell him as often as necessitates that I can’t wait for the American Empire to collapse.