Mattis compared Xi’s China to the Ming Dynasty. Xi might be happy to hear it.

As trade tensions rose between the United States and China last week, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis took aim at China and its leader, Xi Jinping, suggesting Xi was attempting to revive a 400-year-old dynasty. Speaking about various threats facing the United States during a speech at the Naval War College's graduation ceremony on Friday, Mattis said that China “harbored long-term […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/06/20/mattis-compared-xis-china-to-the-ming-dynasty-xi-might-be-happy-to-hear-it/