I've been saying that China is a threat for two decades. Back when everyone else was saying that they were harmless economic allies who would liberalize, I was pointing out how they gutted manufacturing and frequently committed trade violations. You know what the hardest part always was when arguing with people about this? Convincing people that China was a real threat to be taken seriously. If I were a CCP propagandist, I wouldn't be running around online talking about how invincible, powerful, and better China is and making it seem like a big threat, or even offering levelheaded assessments of their capabilities. I would be doing the exact opposite. I would be telling people that Shanghai is built out of tofu, the airship carriers are built out of tin foil, and Three Gorges Dam is going to burst any second now, and that the Chinese army would fold in a heartbeat. I'd basically be doing what you all are doing. If what all you say about China is true, we don't even have to take any measures to counter them. They've apparently been ready to collapse any day now for the last decade.