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Dec. 18, 2025 - Epoch Times
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How Defense Intelligence Officers Identified China as America’s Next Threat in 1989
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In 1989, within the Socrates Project, we identified China as a threat.
We identified what they were doing to become a superpower faster than any country in history to President Reagan, okay?
And we were on track to contain them because what we had in Socrates could have easily contained China.
As a result, President Reagan had an executive order drafted to give us the ability to do that by creating a new federal agency.
That whole organization was supposed to be put in place before he left office.
Wasn't enough time to get it coordinated, so what happened is it waited for Bush.
Bush turned around and abolished the whole thing.
It was very obvious what was going on.
China was executing a national technology strategy, which basically was playing worldwide, a very adroit game of worldwide offensive-defensive technology exploitation chess.
And what are we doing?
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