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Chinese leadership may be not concerned by what he said - they unlikely to rely in their plans on woke generals actually warning them. But they surely must notice what kinds of people are floating to the top, and what it says about the state of the system. And I think they may make a conclusion that Americans are now too obsessed with wokeness to be a serious adversary, if shit is going to really go down. After all, such a conclusion about Europe is entirely warranted, and if Trump didn't win, it likely would have been true about the US too quite soon. The fact that we dodged the bullet this time doesn't mean we're far from it.
It matters what you do, but also it matters what you are prepared to do. If your opponents are convinced your army is mostly Potemkin villages and your leadership is more concerned about not looking racist than about defending the interests of your nation, they would surely adopt a more aggressive stance than otherwise. If you have a asset stockpile that the enemy is sure you'd never use, they wouldn't be deterred much by it.
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