Thread by @BaldingsWorld

I'm frequently asked why the obsession with China? Simple: The CCP wants to dominate the world. Period. They are not a competitor. They are an adversary. An enemy. It is not hard to conceive where they usher in a long period of global authoritarianism. Too many people 1/n

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Including a lot of DC "experts" have been entirely and totally wrong and still are. They need to be treated as they are: not a country with whom we have a trade dispute but a whole of society adversary bent on changing the governance system globally and within democracies. 2/n

Every issue you talk about is a China issue: inequality, innovation, climate, on and on. They are ALL fundamentally China issues. Too many people think China will negotiate and cooperate. Find me an example of where China has good faith cooperated. I'll wait. 3/n

Fundamentally, the data we see out of China is exactly as the Ratcliffe described. Too many university professors, for example, who get money directly or indirectly from China and urge engagement and negotiation are being used by China. This is appalling behavior. The threat 4/n

of a whole of society approach to influence and scale of data theft and surveillance is simply not understood by even the supposed "experts" people cite. So yea, when I am asked why the obsession? I worry about that tipping point of history where the world could change 5/n

For a long long time for the worse and too many people who have been so astoundingly wrong are still voices of influence. This isn't a trade war it is profound struggle for the very values of global liberalism.