This week, we’ve been highlighting China’s 9 Principles for Replacing America as the Global Superpower
- Don’t provoke a powerful adversary.
- Turn your opponent’s house on itself.
- Be patient to achieve victory.
- Steal your opponent’s ideas and technology.
- Target an enemy’s weak points rather than relying on an accumulation of brute strength.
- Beware political states that have a dominant influence or authority over others.
- Deceive others into doing your bidding for you.
- Establish and employ metrics for measuring your status relative to other potential challengers.
- Maintain a deeply ingrained sense of paranoia.
Note these principles are excerpted from a book titled The Hundred Year Marathon: China’s Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury.
Quite an appropriate title given CNBC’s observation regarding the current escalation in the tariff dispute.
Let’s dig a little deeper…
The Homa Files 