🧵1/ People keep asking if I support President Trump, so I thought I would do a thread. For me the answer is complicated and based on personal experience. In 2017 I was the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache in Beijing. It’s a complicated job since you have 5 bosses - Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Director of Defense Intelligence Agency, Commander of INDOPACOM and the Ambassador.

The main lesson of the 21st century will be that you can't couple economically with a regime that seeks the destruction of your way of life. The only question is whether the Republic still stands when that truth becomes evident. The CCP seeks the destruction of the Western Democratic system. This is outlined in an internal CCP document called document number 9. chinafile.com/document-9-chi…