Is the United States "Inflating" the Military Threat From China?
Official and unofficial pronouncements from many sectors of the American foreign policy and political establishment routinely portray China as a major military threat to the United States — even claiming that this threat is existential.
This is part of a pattern that my guest today calls "threat inflation" which he argues leads to policy decisions that p…
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