Gordon Chang on Life, Liberty and Levin. “He’s already waging proxy wars on three continents, in Europe, in Ukraine, in Africa, in the northern portions, and of course, in Israel, because he’s backing Iran and he’s threatening war in East Asia. There has never been a more ambitious aggressor in history. Xi Jinping has been pushing the Imperial era notion where Chinese emperors believe they not only had the mandate of heaven to rule what they call Tian Xia, or all under heaven, but heaven actually compelled them to do so, and Xi Jinping has been pushing the notion since 2017 that Moon and Mars are sovereign Chinese territory. So here’s a guy who believes literally in all under heaven.”
