“All militaries need a straw man, a perceived enemy, for solidarity,” said Huang Jing, a scholar of China’s military and leadership at the National University of Singapore. “And as a young officer or soldier, you always take the strongest of straw men to maximize the effect. Chinese military men, from the soldiers and platoon captains all the way up to the army commanders, were always taught that America would be their enemy.”
That's encouraging... and just after Liu Xiaobo made it in to the news again. But China's too important to everything from Iran and North Korea to climate change and my backyard recycling, so let's not piss them off.
On the other hand, there is this...
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