The People’s Republic of China (PRC) seemed to be considering, by July 2020, whether to risk early military conflict as a means of moving its declining strategic fortunes back from the precipice. Now, supreme leader Xi Jinping was being forced by a range of circumstances — a declining economy, the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic, and demographic disasters and trends — to take precipitate military action before the final window on the path toward global dominance closed for the PRC.
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