Fat Palmer isn't able to think his way through this because of insufficient neurons. The US and China are locked in an ideological struggle but it is one the US started. The United States while simultaneously the hegemon is also exceedingly ideologically revisionist power.
https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1306705089982275591
This is because America's political class as a whole is simultaneously bat shit insane and so dishonest that cannot call power competition for what it is and must intellectually retreat to liberal ideology of freedom vs tyranny to justify everything. Xi Jinping is correct to note
that China is under ideological attack and subversion attacks by the United States, thus his defaulting to Leninism and Nationalism to bolster system legitimacy. The same is not true in that China isn't ideologically attacking the United States, not yet at least.
When Xinhua starts smashing the third rails of American political society, either the role of finance capital, black criminality, demographic transition, the role of a certain diasporic ethnic group etc, anything to delegitimize the US state, then the actual battle starts.
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