re: Pentagon warns China is an even bigger threat than we thought

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1. Fix economy to gain wide support

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The economy has been trending upwards since before Xi took office.

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2. Slowly, quietly build up military while showing aggression to neighboring countries

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You think their build-up has been quiet? It's been pretty obvious.

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Next will be wide scale aggression and abuses of human rights

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China already abuses human rights, and has for a long time. Xi isn't different in that regard. The aggression is overshadowed by open investment in other countries to carve out a sphere of influence where they previously had very little interaction, which isn't all that similar to Hitler.

The situations aren't analogous at all, and the issue of the SES makes it a flashpoint, but China has long said, well before Xi, that they wanted to make the 21st century a "Chinese Century." They've said this before 2000 if I recall.