This pentagon-funded report from 2013 acts as a fun checklist of talking points you started hearing about China after 2017 or so
Start at p.184 for the good stuff.
I’m also losing it over this quote: “In addition, the United States must recognize that it still retains a dominant image in the world. It has an open society, economy, universal ideology that respects individual liberty and freedom, a history of humanitarian aid, an absence of territorial disputes, and no desire to dominate. Moreover, it also has a significant advantage in the fact that it is not a racist state. China is.”
