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Beijing armed Iran with intel used against U.S. troops, propped up Putin's war and strip-mined American AI companies at industrial scale. Rewarding that record with a military flyover, a state banquet and a president waiting on the tarmac buysdoes nothing but buy a photo op Xi never bothered to reciprocate. ThatThis isn'tvisit Americareveals First.an That is America on its knees.
There is a 9% chance there will be a U.S.-China war before 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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