After studying China's behavior over the past two decades, I find it clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has developed an extremely devious strategy to challenge U.S. strategic interest not only in the Western Pacific, but also globally.
To enhance Chinese power and influences, it has built networks with countries such as North Korea, Burma, Iran, Sudan, Venezuela and Yemen - to mention but a few - all of which are hostile to the United States and other democracies.
Further, China has been using proxies to further its political agenda as far back as the Korean and Vietnam wars to tie down and bleed America dry. It is essential for U.S. and allied leadership to balance the goals of a cooperative and peaceful relationship with China with unabridged recognition and realism on China's actions.
The current economic crisis, coupled with two ongoing wars, makes such an assessment all the more urgent.
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