Is China Competing With the United States?

China is the most non interventionist, from a military prospective, world power that we have. It's also not an especially significant military threat any other respect. The effort to have influence or to expand soft power is itself understood as a threat. All of these things are understood in thi zero sum way. That's totally out of keeping with the original architecture and logic of multilateralism. Youre listening to the dig as well, you should be, and you can support them on patrion dot com.