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epistasisyesterday at 7:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

The intelligence community are not US policy makers, and that threat assessment is not policy.

The US intelligence community is correct in its assessment, but US policy is not acting in any way consistent with both the US being the dominant world power and taking that ODNI assessment seriously.

Current US policy makers are instead trying to hide in their shell like a turtle, and greatly restrict US power so that it must not confront or deal with the threat from China.