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ALERT: After ignoring @GenMhayden warning -US struggles with China’s aggression

Sitting in a WTOP studio in late Sept 2016, well before the world witnessed the upheaval that #Russianinterference in the upcoming U.S. election would unleash, former CIA Dir. Michael Hayden...

issued a stark and prescient warning. Describing his view of U.S. threats, Hayden said, “Out there 10 to 15 years, and way up on the let’s-get-important-side, is the Sino-American relationship. This is the one that’s pass-fail. This is the one you’ve got to get right.”

Contrasting the situation with the threat from Russia, which he called a revanchist power, Hayden warned, “This is all about an emerging power — the Chinese — and a status quo power ——ourselves.

History has seen a lot of examples of status quo and emerging powers. It generally ends up in global war.”

That warning was ostensibly ignored.

Read about the consequences here wtop.com/j-j-green-nati…

Thanks @DHWise007 for your help.

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