China is waging a 'quiet kind of cold war' against US, top CIA expert says

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From https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/21/us-china-trade-china-is-waging-a-quiet-kind-of-cold-war-against-us.html

China is waging a 'quiet kind of cold war' against US, top CIA expert says

• Beijing doesn't want to go to war, a top CIA expert on Asia said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jinping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the U.S. in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia.

• "I would argue ... that what they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war -- a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the U.S. and the Soviet Union) but a cold war by definition," Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA's East Asia mission center, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

Published 1:30 AM ET Sat, 21 July 2018
The Associated Press

China is waging a "quiet kind of cold war" against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia said Friday.

Beijing doesn't want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jinping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the U.S. in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia.

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[Bradical79]

1. We know, and Trump is well aware

That's one reason why Trump started the trade war. His tiny lazy little mind just thought slapping some tariffs on China will give him a win to brag about. Easy peazy.

[beachbum bob]

2. the common goal of russia and china has always been for the destruction of america

they found the chump in trump to be able to do it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. China is building economic relationships all over Africa, while we ignore it.

China is building military islands in the South China Sea, while we watch.

Picking little fights with Russia is an easy response. I have no idea how to combat China's expansion into the Pacific. But we should be competing in Africa.