Mike as you state well China places a much higher emphasis on deception and ambiguity to conceal the eventual goal. In the US the Biden administration will not be much of a challenge to deceive. Biden is not an independent thinker nor a big picture guy. China will do its best to give Biden a “token win” on the geopolitical stage and then they will play him like a pawn without him knowing it. China has to be thrilled at Trump’s departure. My suspicion is they already have a wealth of intel on certain people close to Biden and therefore he will be hands off China.
I think you are making an error in time scale. China plays a long game to arrive at a goal which they believe is inevitably theirs — the ‘Mandate of Heaven’. The game will still be on when Biden and probably the Emperor Xi are long gone.
mzeemartin8
4 years ago
If capitalism is to survive? It will survive as long as a free society survives, but perhaps not in the form it now takes.
Mike as you state well China places a much higher emphasis on deception and ambiguity to conceal the eventual goal. In the US the Biden administration will not be much of a challenge to deceive. Biden is not an independent thinker nor a big picture guy. China will do its best to give Biden a “token win” on the geopolitical stage and then they will play him like a pawn without him knowing it. China has to be thrilled at Trump’s departure. My suspicion is they already have a wealth of intel on certain people close to Biden and therefore he will be hands off China.
I think you are making an error in time scale. China plays a long game to arrive at a goal which they believe is inevitably theirs — the ‘Mandate of Heaven’. The game will still be on when Biden and probably the Emperor Xi are long gone.
If capitalism is to survive? It will survive as long as a free society survives, but perhaps not in the form it now takes.