Officials must stay ‘keenly aware’ of challenges and prepare for ‘most extreme scenarios’, President Xi Jinping tells National Security Commission
Comments show China harbours no ‘illusions’ about fallout of US rivalry and has little hope of a lasting improvement in ties, analysts say
The New Cold War is here, folks.
:deeper-sadness:
It's funny when lifelong professionals are worse at material analysis than fucking Donald Trump.
Imagine spending your entire professional life in politics. You make policy decisions and go on diplomatic missions. Throughout your career both you and many of your colleagues are successful in this. And your only explanation for that success is, America good, freedom, little countries being vewy vewy good listeners. Nothing about dollar superiority or the way the military actually projects power. You might not even know the USA genocided bangladesh and indonesia and flattened laos.
The DPRK is just a rogue state that needs to be brought back into the international community.
The CIA and FBI have a colored history but help "keep america safe." But, American political stability is maintained through liberal democracy not repression.
It's genuinely terrifying to watch them fumble around with the machinery of our political system.