[ANALYSIS] China’s strategy to dislodge the US

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. There is no room for doubt as to the global ambitions of China. But a shooting war can be prevented. "Our time has come" is the repeated mantra in Beijing these days. The Chinese Communist Party believes that American decadence, the rebirth of authoritarianism in the world, and today's technological developments, are working in its favor to effectively challenge American hegemony. For decades since the Party came into power, China had maintained a strategic defensive stance vis-à -vis western dominance. Then in the early…