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Since 2017 China's communist government has imprisoned more than one million people and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.<ref>https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang</ref>   

Since 2017 China's communist government has imprisoned more than one million people and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.<ref>https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang</ref>   

[[Obama regime]] foreign policy expert A. Wess Mitchell wrote in Augur 2021,

[[Obama regime]] foreign policy expert A. Wess Mitchell wrote in August 2021,

{{Cquote|The greatest risk facing the twenty-first-century [[United States]], short of an outright [[nuclear war|nuclear attack]], is a two-front war involving its strongest military rivals, [[China]] and [[Russia]]...Such a conflict would entail a scale of national effort and risk unseen in generations, effectively pitting [[America]] against the resources of nearly half of the [[Eurasia]]n landmass...It would stretch and likely exceed the current capabilities of the U.S. military, requiring great sacrifices of the American people with far-reaching consequences for U.S. influence, alliances, and prosperity...Should it escalate into a nuclear confrontation, it could possibly even imperil the country’s very existence.<ref>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137</ref>}}

{{Cquote|The greatest risk facing the twenty-first-century [[United States]], short of an outright [[nuclear war|nuclear attack]], is a two-front war involving its strongest military rivals, [[China]] and [[Russia]]...Such a conflict would entail a scale of national effort and risk unseen in generations, effectively pitting [[America]] against the resources of nearly half of the [[Eurasia]]n landmass...It would stretch and likely exceed the current capabilities of the U.S. military, requiring great sacrifices of the American people with far-reaching consequences for U.S. influence, alliances, and prosperity...Should it escalate into a nuclear confrontation, it could possibly even imperil the country’s very existence.<ref>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137</ref>}}

Blinken announced in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of the [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] Lecture Series on September 13, 2023, after the failed 2023 [[Ukraine counteroffensive]], "The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come."<ref>https://youtu.be/yXd_KDsOpSQ</ref>

Blinken announced in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of the [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] Lecture Series on September 13, 2023, after the failed 2023 [[Ukraine counteroffensive]], "The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come."<ref>https://youtu.be/yXd_KDsOpSQ</ref>