China's Military History and U.S. Relations

How many wars has China been in in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That

would be zero, not one war in 40 years. When was the most recent war that China

was in? January 16 to February 16, 1979. One month in a conflict with Vietnam,

which had to do actually with the Vietnam having overthrown a government

in Cambodia. Okay, one month. We are not at dire risk from China. China is

not mass murdering its population, but we are gearing up in the United States for

war with China. Why? Well, once again, people actually wrote why. You

have to know where to look, but if you look at the Council on Foreign Relations,

an article by a former colleague of mine, Robert Blackwell and Ashley Tellis,

in 2015, they say that China has become so powerful that it threatens American

primacy, and China's rise is no longer in America's interest. And so you watch

this mentality in the U.S. go into effect. Suddenly, because China's economically

successful, they're not just economically successful, they're the

enemy. So everything becomes rhetoric.