The Office of Net Assessment was very early to identify China as a potential competitor to the United States; starting extensive research on China in 1999 while the Pentagon was focused on global counterterrorism operations, providing early warning of the China challenge.
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“We think I 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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