1. “Exploiting the “Democratic Convergence” Myth. For decades, the foundational assumption of U.S. foreign policy was that integrating China into the global economy would inevitably lead to political liberalization.
2. Following the “Hide Your Capabilities” Playbook. Historically, China’s grand strategy relied on Deng Xiaoping’s famous dictum: “Hide your capabilities and bide your time”.
3. Exploiting Free Trade Game Rules. China leveraged its massive, low-cost workforce to entice American multinational corporations. In doing so, it outplayed the U.S. at its own free-trade game.
4. Directing Influence and Intelligence Operations. According to intelligence reports, China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) ran sophisticated, decades-long influence operations targeting Western political, academic, and business elites” Google AI.
The naive anti-war American Left made the very same mistake with the Chinese dictator that the naive anti-war British Left made with the German dictator! Ultimately they survived because the new world democracy came to the rescue of the old world democracies! Unfortunately this time around there will be no one to come save the world’s democracies. This 3rd time will be the charm for the world’s dictators while ironically democracy will disappear once again from the earth for a third time! Say goodbye to freedom!
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
