Redbrickbear said:
Jacques Strap said:
What a pompous ass.
Clicks off Chinese growth rates someone told him 10 mins before the speech...and makes predictions on slower growth in the future that he has no idea if it will be true.
He serves the elite class well by telling everyone China is not an enemy....because our ruling class is making a killing being in bed with the communists.
All the while he has us focused on Russia as the enemy even though it has a tiny economy that is the size of Italy.
All the people in DC make me sick.
two different issues going on here.
First, you correctly identify is that American elites are so invested in China trade that they are reluctant to recognize the dragon they are feeding as a threat.
Second, Milley is talking (indirectly) about a rather patent Thucydides Trap. It is the dragon in the room, and it is real. Petting it with kid gloves, as he is doing, is wise.