{"id":13803,"date":"2021-07-26T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2021-07-29T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:50:34","slug":"chinas-greater-east-asia-co-prosperity-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinas-greater-east-asia-co-prosperity-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"13804\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinas-greater-east-asia-co-prosperity-sphere\/flag_of_the_peoples_republic_of_china\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?fit=500%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?resize=800%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?resize=500%2C250&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hacking into Western institutions?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No apologies for lying about the origins, nature, and transmissibility of the gain-of-function, virology-lab-engineered Wuhan&nbsp;SARS-CoV-2 virus? Or rather, an attitude of maybe\/maybe not the virus leaked from a military-related lab, \u201cSo what are you going to do about it\u2014this time or next\u201d?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/07\/25\/chinas-greater-east-asia-co-prosperity-sphere\/\">CONTINUE READING&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism?&nbsp; Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized?&nbsp;&nbsp; Hacking into Western institutions?&nbsp;&nbsp; No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3AD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1627,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-nobel-bad-idea\/","url_meta":{"origin":13803,"position":0},"title":"A Nobel, Bad Idea","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"President Obama's new nuclear policy is ill-timed and ill-conceived. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (April 2010) President Obama has announced a new American policy concerning the use of nuclear weapons (the \u201cNuclear Posture Review\u201d). 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