War with China, page-10

IMO, conservative/anti-communist ideologues will want to take down China before China gains armed superiority over the USA.
Up to 2014 this anti-CCP consortium within the USA led by the CIA believed that the rapidly growing Chinese Middle Class would first soften up the CCP and, over time ,relegate it to the ideological scrap heap while America got on with being America.

In 2014, Xi and his 2 impressive mega economic programs, the OBI & Made in China 2025 knocked the ass out of America's "Great Expectations"
Not alone that, China passed out the USA in GDP (PPP) in 2014 to pile on more agony on the US Right.

So by the time Trump arrived blowing his own trumpet, the CIA China strategy was already set: "Do a Soviet Union by a comprehensive set of trade
sanctions which in effect is economic war. And to firm up global anti_China sentiment highlight the Uighur atrocities, kindle HK unrest and downplay the OBI as being a debt trap for the participants and discredit "Made in China 2025 as intellectual Property Theft. Of course China had already drawn its neighbours ire with the South China Sea militarised artificial islands as the poor man's answer to flotilla of US warships & aircraft carriers
in the region.

Which leads one to ask, what's next?

IMO whether Trump looses or wins, nothing much will change in US/China relations because the CIA & the Armed Forces will always do the bidding of the Conservative Right. IMO, there might be a switch of US policy towards Russia because the Obama Russian economic sanctions has driven Russia into the Chinese camp and a combined China/Russia is a formidable opponent to whatever Uncle Sam cares to dish out. Any astute strategist would be first aiming on driving a wedge between Russia & China and then stirring up more unrest within China's 13 other neighbours.

That said , however, the US could be in for rude shock because China, who is fairing better during this covid-19 recession, is likely to pass out the USA in USD GDP 4 years earlier than expected and, IMO, each year after that that China can avoid war, the better it will be positioned to win it
or at least institute Cold War 2.

War technology is advancing at its highest rate ever which brings first strike & sophisticated defence capabilities back in focus (something that the US had in the 1950s vs the USSR, but of course the USSR soon caught up ensuring a Cold War thereafter on the basis that a full blown Nuke War was unwinnable by either side.

Over the past 4 years, not alone has the USA torn up many agreements which were supporting the world order, it mistreated its friends in Europe
and in particular its neighbours Canada & Mexico.Perhaps some US skeptics see this as the death knell of a failing empire.

The good old USA has had 150 years since the Civil War to construct a just society at home while it built its global empire but unfortunately flaws within its system has stymied that grand ambition and at present the USA has bigger internal threats than exterior ones, IMO.

The paradox of US ideology at present is that while the Government wants to repatriate business, those very successful businesses owe their very success to Globalisation and its interesting that Trump points his acusing finger at China for US de-industrialised woes rather than at the US corporations who uped stumps and migrated to China leaving the Rustbelt & Trump's Deplorables in their wake. In other words they dropped nationalism for a quick buck!