I'm a proud red-blooded American and I really can't understand this idea Conservatives have that China is still a medieval country with peasants and roaming bands of barbarians. Like we can't defeat them, all of our military projections and generals corraborate that. We gain nothing from antagonizing them.

I wonder if Vance knows better and is trying to pander to the knuckledraggers in his base to keep them from realizing how much worse off they are.