Will Modern Hyperconnectivity Allow China to Determine the
Destiny of Civilization?:
"Robert Spalding, formerly "the chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs," described what he thought was at stake in the U.S.-China "trade war" in which
the role of Beijing's telecom giant Huawei figures prominently. In an interview with
American thought leaders, Spalding argued that it was bigger than a trade war. "It's
really about what kind of world we want to live in." China, like the U.S., realized that
globalization was not content-free and was trying to shape it to its own purposes. The
following are paraphrases from his interview found here.
We were so hubristic as Americans we failed to recognize that over
long history China's been invaded and conquered so many times that
they have a unique ability to absorb those invaders and slowly change
them into Chinese. We thought we'd turn them into Americans but in
reality we're becoming more and more -- not Chinese -- but certainly
like the Chinese Communist Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization
hybrid of what the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was
Beijing is deliberately using the hyperconnectivity of the modern world to determine not
only the character of globalization but even the destiny of civilization. While the
Chinese understood that this the question in Spalding's mind was whether anyone in the
American establishment did. Beijing is calculating that if they push back hard,
Washington will fold because many politicians don't understand what is at stake."
See:
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez...ough-the-wire/