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But countries like China play the long game. They have 50-year visions of where they want to be, along with detailed long term strategic plans for how to get there. Do you think it hurts the US to not have any sort of coherent, long term vision towards which they are working? After World War II, of course, it did. This was a vision of global cooperation, trade, and peace among the free world, which was more or less pursued by every administration. Is it OK to just keep lurching now like a blind mole from administration to administration, with one administration completely destroying what the other has done?
Much of China's long term strategy involves corporate espionage and stealing our technological secrets, something we better get aggressive about stopping. It's easy for China when they have an authoritarian government which has embraced capitalism or semi-capitalism as its economic system. It's like they looked at the Soviet model and threw away the state run economy while keeping the one party government. They see what works elsewhere and adopt it. We see what fails elsewhere and long to adopt that.