Reasons to Calm Down about China

Reason #1: America's history of threat inflation

Hi! Today I continue my uphill battle to get Americans to calm down about China. In the short video sermon below, I compare and contrast the current wave of concern about an Asian power’s expanding influence with the wave of concern, a few decades ago, about a different Asian power’s expanding influence. If you don’t find my argument persuasive, be patient—this won’t be my last sermon on the subject! (Meanwhile, you can register your disagreement, and articulate it, in the comments section below.) And if you do find this sermon persuasive, feel free to share it on social media or click your nearest like button or register approval in the comments section—or just bask in the serenity that begins to envelope a person when threat inflation begins to subside.

—Bob

Transcript: