There was a 2 decade pause after the Soviet Union fell apart. And I would qualify that China is lower grade than Russia. We’re in an arms race with China and we are both doing intense intelligence work against the other. But China isn’t trying to actively sabotage infrastructure or civilian business. The Russians are doing all that because it’s all they can do. The Chinese are playing a longer game that they hope will see us pushed out of Asia without warfare beyond the intelligence world.
There was a 2 decade pause after the Soviet Union fell apart. And I would qualify that China is lower grade than Russia. We’re in an arms race with China and we are both doing intense intelligence work against the other. But China isn’t trying to actively sabotage infrastructure or civilian business. The Russians are doing all that because it’s all they can do. The Chinese are playing a longer game that they hope will see us pushed out of Asia without warfare beyond the intelligence world.