To project nationalist rhetoric externally as the means to maintain domestic political legitimacy, just like what the U.S. is doing.
I am not affiliated with any sort of decision-making body of the Chinese government so what do I know? It's all just speculation.
So, can you kindly provide a source that proves your claims about the Chinese government's stated goals against the U.S.? Just one source, one. It must not be very difficult to retrieve just one source material to back up claims of the existence of this grand death cult campaign propeled by the Chinese government, is it?
I don’t really care for message board arguments with people who aren’t curious and are trying to score points by restating their not particularly researched position. If you’re intellectually curious about this topic you now have an entry point.
I asked for primary sources, not the distilled excerpts of some rando's Substack grift which I am absolutely not going to pay for.
>people who aren’t curious
I am literally asking for your sources because I am curious how you arrived at those conclusions, yet you refuse to provide them.
>trying to score points by restating their not particularly researched position
Those are some ironic words coming from someone whose best supporting proof to their egregious claim is one single person's paywalled blog as a secondary source. If you are anywhere remotely close to being intellectually curious as you pretend to be, perhaps providing actual sources will be a good start.