China can now execute a nuclear strike on any target anywhere on earth. According to a 2020 Defense Intelligence Agency report, China has eclipsed America militarily in several critical areas.
And it sees an opportunity, in the coronavirus pandemic it has caused, to hit the world while it is down.
We have helped the CCP with our capital, our technology, and our naivete. The decades-long policy of engagement not only built China up, but allowed it to co-opt such a large, influential, and powerful cohort of American society that it may never have to engage in physical warfare against us to overtake us. Our Ruling Class is increasingly not only subservient to it but aligned with it.