"...I would not think of the Chinese government to undertake a similar SMO."

China's history is long and bloody. There are forces that yearn for global conquest, and the US has been terribly lamed by recent events. I do not want my sons to die in war. I do not want war. Inscrutable China may not bring an SMO, but a genocide.

I was once saved from a Cambodian's violent attack, whose family had suffered terribly, unknown to me, as a result of US actions in the Vietnam war, by two little Vietnamese girls, whose racial enmity was stronger against the Cambodian than against me, the American.

I was at first astounded by this, still a child unfamiliar with racism or the toll of war on innocents. As time went on I discussed this event, sometimes with E. Asians. When I spoke of it to them, they were not surprised, and pointed out that E. Asian peoples had been waging war with each other for millennia, and had built up mutual ethnic hatreds that were cultural fixtures for many generations, while Americans had only just jumped in and out of Asia, hardly long enough to be properly hated.

Racism is never just, never necessary, but is a powerful impetus to war nonetheless, and many Chinese have affirmed to me that China is a very nationalist nation, supremely confident in it's superiority to others, and that many there particularly revile Americans, for the weakness the last decade and a half has imbued us with. If you scroll through interactions between Chinese and Americans on Red Note, which recently suffered a sudden influx of Americans looking to replace Tik Tok, you will see many such comments to that effect from the Chinese disparaging Americans.

Personally, I do not blame them. Propaganda and indoctrination are potent reins by which to control a people, and I doubt the US or Germany far surpasses the Chinese in their subjection to such goads to hatred, that the extraordinarily demoralizing weakness of certain Western demographics have made ubiquitously known to the Chinese peoples. Not only Chinese people, but across Asia, Africa, and S. America I have read many comments to the effect that eradicating Americans would spare us further degradation and degeneration.

We are not the nation Mao feared to attack because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass, anymore.

Thanks Obama! /s