The Elements of the China Challenge - by The Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary of State

[Klaralven]

Executive Summary

Awareness has been growing in the United States — and in nations around the world — that
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has triggered a new era of great-power competition.
Yet few discern the pattern in China’s inroads within every region of the world, much less the
specific form of dominance to which the party aspires.

The CCP aims not merely at preeminence within the established world order — an order
that is grounded in free and sovereign nation-states, flows from the universal principles on
which America was founded, and advances U.S. national interests —but to fundamentally
revise world order, placing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the center and serving
Beijing’s authoritarian goals and hegemonic ambitions.

In the face of the China challenge, the United States must secure freedom.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20407448/elements_of_the_china_challenge-20201117.pdf

Amazing document -- 50 pages long with 24 pages of endnote.

You'd think that a document describing economic and geopolitical challenges might have a map, graph, chart, table or something that portrays actual spacial and quantitative information. You'd be wrong.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. My take.....if Republicans are in charge of Chinese policy....we are fucked.

(BTW, Chou is not going to be an ally on Chinese Democracy. She's in bed with the Communists in Beijing.)

But that really pertains to every social/economic/political institution.

[pecosbob]

2. Our best hope as a species is that both our nations can mature and evolve

I'd put my money on the PRC. We can't even get people to wear masks.