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I Love the Paradigm of Hard Power
We haven't figured out what would be an OK level of power and influence for the second richest country in the world to have. It's not going to be what China's role in influence was when it was 1% of GDP, which was only 20 years ago. So that's a 15-fold rise in China's raw economic power. Surely, there's going to be some increase in its influence. But basically, every extra move that China gets more powerful in militarily comes at the expense of the US.