The Strategic Challenge of China

[Erik Rutins]

From the standpoint of a wargamer following current events, this is a must watch speech for everyone in the US at least as far as perspective on the challenge that China poses:

https://youtu.be/hVfIrfHH4g4

Please note I'm not posting this to start a political discussion, just to raise awareness of this Admiral's observations.

Regards,

- Erik

[RangerJoe]

Thank you very much for posting this. It was very interesting.

[Nikel]

Thucydides trap, will hit sooner or later. Not necessarily means a war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

[gamer78]

It is interesting why Chinese human rights are told by an admiral?

I think he talks about Uygur, BBC also talks much about it but it doesn't have much audience even in Turkey.

Thucydides trap, will hit sooner or later. Not necessarily means a war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

Most probably.

[*Lava*]

The great majority of problems could have been solved 20 years ago if we hadn't let the Chinese suck all the industry out of the West.

I saw somewhere that said, potentially, China has the industrial war capacity 5 times greater than the US during WW2.

You didn't have to be an intelligence officer to see that coming...

[Erik Rutins]

The great majority of problems could have been solved 20 years ago if we hadn't let the Chinese suck all the industry out of the West.

Yes, never agreed with the idea that economic improvements would necessitate positive change in other areas. At a minimum other reforms should have been required up front and those requirements enforced to enable greater economic access. There was a lot of self-delusion about China's own strategy in the 90's and early 00's as well as the usual short-term thinking on our parts.

Regards,

- Erik