"This is how the MAGACOMMUNISTS work as the kayfabe opposition of the Destiny/Vaush twitch streamer psyops. They act like the characatures of "tankies" created in a Democratic Party lab would to sheepdog the compatible left back into the democrats & communists into the far right."
I think China also just has less urgency with this sort of thing, if you let the numbers play out the outcome keeps improving from their perspective. Right now they would take huge losses in a confrontation and possibly lose outright if it came to that. 10 years ago it would have been worse, they've dramatically grown their capabilities in the interim while the US has more or less stalled. How will the math look 10 years from now? What's the point of being confrontational if the risk is already too great for the US to try anything, and keeps increasing by the day?
i agree with this analysis with the exception that China has a very low chance of losing a direct confrontation with the US now. the tech gap is huge rn in China’s favor and the only “advantage” the US still has (larger surface warfare ships) will likely turn out to actually be a disadvantage due to advances in missile technology. but yeah, it’s smart for them to wait for the US to make the first move