You fast forward to today, particularly beginning in about 2015 or 2016, and you start to realize America now faces, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, a near peer adversary, meaning another great power who is competing with us economically, technologically, militarily, across the board and in China. And not only do we have a geopolitical adversary now, a competitor, we have certainly the strongest one we've ever had. From a comprehensive point of view. (02:16–02:30)
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Asserts that China is a near-peer adversary to the U.S. in multiple domains.
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