Jim Baker and his office (Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon) were early to recognize China as a potential competitor to the US, beginning extensive research on China as a competitive threat in 1999 while the rest of the Pentagon was focused on global counter-terrorism wars.
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“We think um we were very early to worry about China as a potential competitor to the United States. We started extensive research on that question back in 1999. And while the rest of the Pentagon was fighting the wars on terror globally, we were doing a lot of basic research on China.”
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