China is a hostile adversary that uses state-subsidized industry, intellectual property theft, and unfair economic practices to actively destroy the American economy.

“These tariffs are designed to address the nation that has stolen our manufacturing, that has stolen a lot of our intellectual property, technology, businesses, and this nation still venerates the single most deadly communist regime that has ever taken place on Earth.”

Connor believes that China is remarkably efficient, but not necessarily living in the year 2035.

“honestly in in terms of like China living in 2035, it's kind of like services that we have already used to in Japan or even like a lot of other Asian countries just a little bit more refined and a little bit slightly more convenient.”

Garnt believes traveling to China is a unique experience because it operates on a separate technological infrastructure than the rest of the world.

“going to China does truly feel like going into a foreign world where they are relying on their own systems and a lot of their infrastructure is just not something that you are acclimated to.”

China will eventually be forced to use its military because its economic growth is declining.

“they are getting more dangerous because they are seeing that they're reaching the peak of their abilities right with the demographic problems with the economic problems”

China has reached a dangerous level of influence because of previous American policy failures.

“the thing about them being a paper tiger I would slightly push back upon only because our policies failed so long that it allowed them to become not the paper tiger”

China is successfully catching up to global leaders in semiconductor development.

“I don’t think anyone has a clear answer to the question, but as far as as I can see and as far as my research is concerned, China is definitely catching up.”

The Chinese Communist Party is currently committing genocide against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang for the sake of solidifying political control and achieving global dominance.

“it is strategically politically economically a significant area and used to be to the Chinese but to the world now so it is quite shameful that the United States is one of the biggest markets or even the biggest market for a weaker slave labor-made Goods shoes solar panels cotton”

China's persistence with its zero-COVID strategy suggests a fixation on control rather than just the management of the virus.

“it makes you wonder whether it's about dealing with covert or whether the absolute fixation is about control because the economy the economy has taken a massive hit”