
China’s Mounting Challenge to U.S. Hegemony
The Intercept Briefing
The Importance of Hitting the Gym
"We should not be poking the Chinese necessarily in the eye where we can avoid it because that's going to, that could precipitate the conflict," he says. The official assessment of the US intelligence committee is that Xi Jinping specifically instructed the People's Liberation Army to be ready to invade and occupy Taiwan by 2027. "It really makes me think of like the butter battle book of Dr. Munchausen... You want to hit the gym first."
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