Why Does America Hate China?

Nancy O'Brien Simpson There is a truth we rarely speak aloud in America:our nation often needs an enemy. During the Cold War, it was the Soviet Union — an existential "other" that justified vast military budgets, covert interventions, and a permanent sense of national urgency. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a vacuum opened. For a time, terrorism filled the role of adversary, after 9/11 turned a faceless "enemy" into a justification for endless wars. But even the concept of terrorism could not sustain the military-industrial complex forever.