US spies elevate China rivalry to war of ideologies 3 SHARES Share it! China policy analysts said the assessment marks an important modification of US thinking — and reflects President Xi Jinping’s ideological transformation of Chinese foreign policy. They also say it goes far beyond the views of Trump, who has treated relations with China as more transactional. “Now that China is so successful, there is an ideological battle for which system works best,” he told AFP. First is the interment of nearly a million Muslim Uighurs in western China in an effort to “stamp out” their identity, he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 02, 2019 09:14 UTC