All of that is correct. None of them have a lick of sense of national security, and don’t see China’s government for the fanatics they are. Their foreign policy has been unchanging in regarding the USA as their number-one enemy, and their goal of bringing worldwide communism still stands; it’s been quite active in Africa and South America (the latter a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine), and the only entity that has been a serious rival in those continents (ironically, and especially for those continents’ natural resources) has been the European Union.
Thanks for the response Olog-hai. I agree with your take on the beginnings of adventurism in our own hemisphere.
Folks are sleep-walking into a buz-saw with regard to China.
I can sure identify with people who saw Hitler for what he was in the mid 1930s.
If you follow the logic trail around here, you note that the people we have right here on this forum would have been arguing that trade with Germany would have prevented WWII.