Man, they really want China to invade aren't they

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Its ten Americans in a bunker staring at a board game map and planning out the next chess move squaring off against thousands of Beijing's top bureaucrats, diplomats, engineers, and economic planners staring at a ten year long timeline and estimating how it will impact their plan for the next century.

    The DC crowd knows they only have another two years to implement a plan to contain China, before the next administration sweeps the board and starts over again. So everything has to happen ASAP and deliver the biggest impact possible. In Beijing, leaders have the luxury of a continuous government wherein the successor to the Chairmanship comes up executing the plan of the current administration.

    It isn't so much an issue of Smart versus Dumb, but one in which a particular official is bounced in and out of the public sector with every election cycle. Americans only have the opportunity to execute a plan on the scale of months rather than decades.