The worst thing America can do against China is nothing | Dan Blumenthal
China weaponized the openness of the system America built. It joined the WTO, captured critical supply chains, and absorbed stolen intellectual property to fund its military buildup while Washington looked elsewhere.
Dan Blumenthal, Director of Asian Studies at AEI, shows Ian the logic of a decaying state with grand ambitions, pointing to explicit 2035 and 2049 modernization targets, a demographic clock running toward old before rich, and a below-threshold playbook designed to win without fighting. His warning for the defense industrial base is that the worst move is doing nothing.
Topics…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.