Thread by @dravirmani

Starting with the rise & fall of USSR #CCP has studied everything related to rise & fall of great powers , to ensure "rise & rise" of China. ("History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes")

https://twitter.com/TheNatlInterest/status/1307492181393932290

2/ccp But no history book suggests 👇, nor does it rhyme with history of European powers 🧐

https://twitter.com/EvanFeigenbaum/status/1307410628932505610

3/ccp For those of us threatened by aggression (India, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam) its not a Geoeconomic game, its about war and peace, of choice between blood & sweat (Defence budgets) and appeasement

4/ccp The relative importance of issues is very different when one is on the frontline of war (face to face with his guns, tanks, planes, missiles) and when one is 1000 or 10,000 miles away, with the luxury of distance & time.

5/ccp The frontline of #Communist #Chinese #aggression From #CreepingAcquisition to #IncrementalImperialism to #UnabashedAggression The #PLA is growing up fast under #XiJinping

https://twitter.com/Dr_M_Davis/status/1307430552945831936

6/ccp The problem of perception is even more acute in ivory towers, even if <10 miles from border. Everything looks like the theories one has propounded for decades. Can't even see🙈 or hear 🙉those who have fought on the border, or catch the whispers🙊 of those who have competed

4/ccp #CCPchina has successfully #coerced smaller and/or poorer economies, and will continue to do so unless USA devises a collaborative strategy(with other rich countries) to counter it.

https://twitter.com/financialtimes/status/1308617131475570688