"Think about it for a moment: possibly the most crucial relationship on the planet between what looks like a rising and a falling great power (in a world that desperately needs their cooperation) is being significantly influenced by experts and officials invested in the industry guaranteed to militarize that very relationship and create a twenty-first-century version of the Cold War.
Any administration, in other words, lives in something like an echo chamber that continually affirms the need for a yet greater defense build-up led by those who would gain most from it."
https://truthout.org/articles/a-think-tank-echo-chamber-is-thirsting-for-a-new-cold-war-with-china/
Any administration, in other words, lives in something like an echo chamber that continually affirms the need for a yet greater defense build-up led by those who would gain most from it."
https://truthout.org/articles/a-think-tank-echo-chamber-is-thirsting-for-a-new-cold-war-with-china/
Truthout
A Think Tank Echo Chamber Is Thirsting for a New Cold War With China
Many of the top think tank recipients of foreign funding are also top recipients of funding from US weapons makers.