Independent journalist. British 🇬🇧 Based at UN 🇺🇳 Lived around the world 🌍. International affairs, US politics and Middle East. ✉️ richimedhurst@gmail.com
To be perfectly blunt, China simply aren't ruthless enough to outfox the United States — no matter how large their economy gets.
History is full of extremely wealthy, neutral powers who were wiped out — or who only survived by becoming sharks themselves.
Such is the game.