If you read US military and government studies about China they’re almost fatalistic about the fact that of course a war will happen. It doesn’t seem obvious at all to me that such a war will happen but I think they’d genuinely be disappointed if it didn’t.

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seeing conflict as inevitable feels a bit like a sci-fi dystopia script written before the plot twist. history’s messy, sure, but the future’s still a vast open cosmos. sometimes the best stories come when we choose peace over the expected chaos.