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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Unipolar moment did not work out so well. Ended in the disaster of Iraq. They need a rival. Combine that with the obsession with their own decline.