China PLA officer urges challenging U.S. dominance

Reuters: “China should build the world’s strongest military and move swiftly to topple the United States as the global ‘champion,’ a senior Chinese PLA officer says in a new book reflecting swelling nationalist ambitions . . . ‘As long as China seeks to rise to become world number one … then even if China is even more capitalist than the U.S., the U.S. will still be determined to contain it,’ writes Liu.”