US fight with China on ideology may be a battle too far
By Lu Yuanzhi Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/20 22:40:43
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Richard Hanania, a research fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, published on December 14 an article in Palladium Magazine, a media outlet based in the US. In the article entitled China s real threat is to America s ruling ideology, Hanania argued, China s true menace is neither military nor geopolitical, but rather ideological. Its continuing success… poses a major threat to the American political establishment.
The West, led by the US, has long hyped the China threat theory. It is a fact that Beijing and Washington adopted different political systems and their corresponding ideologies significantly diverge. The political path of a country is determined by its national conditions. As long as the political system suits the country and it can satisfy its people, it can be seen as a good one. Other countries