If China struggled to secure a visit for its research ship at Hambantota in Sri Lanka, where a Chinese SOE had a 70% stake in a 99-year lease, how could an HK firm damage U.S. security?
Zichen Wang, as always, touches the heart of the matter - there is an irrational element in geopolitics. For the U.S., war, the most irrational of human behaviors, is its usual final solution to perceived or self-induced threats. Framed against this mad backdrop, its comings and goings on the international stage are almost always the prelude to a major bloodletting, and don't represent any other functional purpose.
Zichen Wang, as always, touches the heart of the matter - there is an irrational element in geopolitics. For the U.S., war, the most irrational of human behaviors, is its usual final solution to perceived or self-induced threats. Framed against this mad backdrop, its comings and goings on the international stage are almost always the prelude to a major bloodletting, and don't represent any other functional purpose.