- China is building all those little islands in the South China Sea.
- The U.S. has bases where it does, in Asia.
- China is building pipelines, highways, and railroads all over Asia and the Middle East.
- China is willing to lend money to poor countries that keep defaulting on their loans.
- The U.S. is selling nuclear submarines to Australia.
- Russia isn’t worried about oil and natural gas embargoes after invading Ukraine.
- Russia and China aren’t worried about global warming or, in fact, are trying to accelerate it.
- China is oppressing the Uyghur people.
In short, China’s playing the long game when it comes to Taiwan and willing to spent billions - even trillions - to do it. And they’re coming dangerously close to being able to pull the trigger on that.