Why China is a bigger threat than the Soviet Union - Josh Rogan

[TomSea]

Why China is a bigger threat than the Soviet Union
 by Tom Rogan | January 30, 2020

For reasons of politics, economics, and military power, the Chinese Communist Party now poses a greater threat to U.S. security than the Soviet Union did during the Cold War.

The similarities between those two behemoths are obvious.

Both nations rooted their power in authoritarian control over the people and in devotion to party supremacy, and both viewed America's submission as a prerequisite for their ultimate success, but most of the threat similarities end there. In large part, that's because communist China has a far better strategy than the Soviet Union. Where Moscow sought to dominate its adversaries, Beijing seeks first to co-opt and then dominate them. Where the Soviet Union relied on ramshackle KGB efforts to steal Western technology, China matches domestic hackers to academic infiltrators. Where the Soviet military tried to overmatch NATO with mass, Xi Jinping fragments our alliances and targets our defensive weak points.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-china-is-a-bigger-threat-than-the-soviet-union

[Absalom]

Utter malarkey from another journo nobody that what matters is size. Horse manure!
History shows us that the achievements of China and Russia since birth are trivial, if that!
Ancient Greece was dwarfed by the Empires of the Middle East yet thrashed them all.
France, Austria, Russia, Spain, among several, while far larger, were dominated by
Great Britain till the Great War.

[sneakypete]

They are a bigger threat for several reasons,the prime one being their culture is completely different than ours in every respect I can think of.

On the other hand,the Russians had many things in common with other Europeans before the 1917 Revolution,and every though they couldn't exhibit or talk about them in public after the communists took over,they still held to those beliefs.