US intelligence assessment moves China to the top of the threat list (scmp.com)

This has been glaringly obvious even to the layperson (except those brainwashed by the red scare lies) since not long after the fall of the Soviet Union. And almost certainly it should have been obvious to analysts with access to much more data well before then.

How did so many experts" get it so wrong, so many times, for so long? The simplest explanation is that they didn't, they were just lying about it.