Xi Is Ratcheting Up China’s Pain Threshold for a Long Fight With Trump

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The Mao post and other messages from Beijing highlight what China sees as one of its core advantages against the U.S.: While Trump and his Republican backers are vulnerable to the whims of American voters, the party that Mao built is deeply entrenched, having maintained power through more than seven decades despite war, famine, political upheaval and financial crises...

 ...Since an earlier trade war during the first Trump administration, he has intensified his grip on the country’s leadership and spent lavishly reinforcing the authoritarian tools that underpin the party’s longevity, including enhancements of the world’s most sophisticated systems for censorship and surveillance. The Chinese leader wants to harden his country specifically for a confrontation with the U.S., urging officials to engage in what he calls “extreme scenario thinking.”

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I guess for reasons of arrogance, lots of members of this forum think China is a paper tiger and they resent any information that might not jibe with those beliefs. The last time I can recall thinking of this kind on a major scale was the 2nd Iraq War.