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ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n Chinese state media has just announced the imminent test flight of a new long-range stealth bomber called the Hong-20. A \u201cmilitary expert\u201d told reporters that \u201cusually, the development of equipment and weaponry of the People\u2019s Liberation Army is highly confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n Revealing the bomber name before trials shows the Chinese aviation industry is gaining more confidence, the expert boasted.<\/p>\n If there was ever an example of \u201cprojection,\u201d this is it. The Chinese are not \u201cconfident;\u201d they are scared.<\/p>\n The communist regime, which by the way just confirmed it is holding over 1 million of its citizens in \u2018re-education\u2019 camps in the restive western region of Xinjiang, is acting like a deer in the headlights. In the face of real \u201cTrumpian\u201d confidence radiating from Washington, China\u2019s leaders are acting like the schoolyard bully who for the first time just got punched in the face, and figured out they don\u2019t like it one bit.<\/p>\n President Trump has done the one thing Beijing thought would never happen \u2014 he is using the full weight of American power for the first time since World War II, economic, political, moral and yes, even military power. And it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n We should expect more bravado and parading of weapons from China, which is desperate to turn American public opinion against Mr. Trump\u2019s hard line. There has been lots of love shared between the American elites and those in Beijing over the last few decades. That is over now. The globalist game is over. The hollowing out of America is over.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t believe the narrative in the mainstream U.S. media created about the People\u2019s Republic. I have never believed the Wall Street apologists for the dictators.<\/p>\n The experts claim that China\u2019s economy is well on its way to surpassing the United States in terms of GDP. But, that was before Mr. Trump stopped letting Beijing treat trade as a one-way street. China\u2019s economy is actually a house of cards, propped up by uncollectable debts and exploitative trade practices. The government has to build empty \u201cghost cities\u201d just to keep people employed and not rioting. Did I mention the re-education camps? That all doesn\u2019t sound like a stable, growing society to me.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in the U.S., we are in the midst of a real reset, one that will benefit the country in the long run. There will be some short-term pain \u2014 as we are seeing in the American stock market \u2014 as we forge new expectations and the old ways of doing business pass by the wayside.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve just learned that China is trying to influence next month\u2019s midterm elections. They must be thinking, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake we can\u2019t let Trump consolidate power, or we are finished!\u201d<\/p>\n We should expect more malign behavior, more fear-mongering in the South China Sea, more spy technology embedded in our communications equipment, more military parades, and more general Chinese chest-thumping.<\/p>\n The Chinese will continue to lash out, as cornered creatures tend to do, and now the leadership\u2019s deceptions are being exposed for all the world to see. President Trump is threatening the very hold on power of the Chinese Communist Party. In their world, they cannot allow this to happen.<\/p>\n Ronald Reagan won the Cold War and tore down the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n Donald Trump may be doing the same thing, only this time in the Pacific, frustrating the insidious Chinese plan to undermine America without firing a shot, and threatening the communists\u2019 hold on power in Beijing.<\/p>\n \u2022 <\/strong>L. Todd Wood is a former special operations helicopter pilot and Wall Street debt trader, and has contributed to Fox Business, The Moscow Times, National Review, The New York Post and many other publications. He can be reached at LToddWood.com.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese state media has just announced the imminent test flight of a new long-range stealth bomber called the Hong-20. 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