‘How can the United States possibly compete with China?’

The practice is central to the success of Beijing’s multi-faceted political warfare. The comparison of 1980s Japan to 2026 communist China is imperfect, and postwar Japan never viewed the United States as an enemy to be defeated and displaced. A powerful military is a prerequisite, but today that competition – more accurately, the war – is on the political warfare battlefield. If the US had a political warfare effort it would, with the facts laid out above, run wild. Toward the end of the Biden administration the State Department official nominally responsible for political warfare was called before Congress and asked about the Department’s political warfare campaign against China.