Kyle van Oosterum > Recent Status Updates

Excellent analogy:

“This pattern of China’s is like ‘salami-slicing’, shaving sliver after sliver until they had eaten more than their portion. China’s strategy is to nudge the strategic environment incrementally in its favor, sometimes acting so brazey as to raise alarms in the region, but not quite aggressive enough as to provoke significant countermeasures from the United States.”

This. Is. Dense.

Damn.

“MOREOVER, to make things right is so demanding that oftentimes the West can only pay LIP SERVICE to the principle that human rights override sovereignty, which makes the rest of the world suspect that their true intention is nothing but a disguised pursuit of national interests, and thus leads to skepticism and cynicism.”

Back at it