(Breitbart News) – When Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon sat down last month for an interview in New York City with Keith Koffler, author of Bannon: Always the Rebel, the future of America’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China was a major topic. “Our elites have
(Breitbart News) – When Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon sat down last month for an interview in New York City with Keith Koffler, author of Bannon: Always the Rebel, the future of America’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China was a major topic.
“Our elites have not just been okay with [the rise of China], they’ve helped exacerbate that rise … by telling us from day one that as China got wealthier, they become more liberal democratic and free-market capitalist,” Bannon told Koffler.
Instead of adopting the global liberal values of America and the West’s elite, Bannon argues, the leadership of Red China see their own “Confucian, mercantilist, authoritarian” model as the “way of the future.” He cited Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s latest speech to the Chinese Communist Party conference in which he laid out China’s goal to overtake the United States in several key industries and replace the dollar as the world reserve currency in the next three decades.
Bannon began to characterize the China challenge by explaining that there is a “concept among our elites … called the ‘Thucydides Trap,’” a reference to the Classical Greek soldier and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, a pillar of the Western Canon.
