[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Arnaud Bertrand [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/twitter/RnaudBertrand) on x 340.7K followers Created: 2025-07-22 16:08:29 UTC This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S. Think Tank, and that’s saying something. The Hudson Institute just published a 128-page blueprint titled “China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China,” edited by Miles Yu (director of the Institute’s China Center), which provides detailed operational plans for inducing Chinese regime collapse followed by detailed protocols for U.S. post-collapse management including military occupation and the installation of a political and cultural system vassalized to the U.S. I genuinely don’t know whether I should laugh or cry. Cry at the sheer arrogance and casualness with which they write about overthrowing the government of the world's largest economy, the primary economic lifeline for most of the planet, and a quarter of the human race. Laugh at the comic book villainy of believing that a declining empire that can't even maintain its own infrastructure and has lost every major conflict of the past two decades could somehow orchestrate and manage the controlled collapse of a country of China's importance. Regardless, reading the report was actually fascinating because it reveals so much about the diseased soul of American empire and some of the key reasons behind its decline. There's a common pattern well known to political sociologists: when groups face existential threats to their status and identity, they often exhibit compensatory extremism - becoming caricatured versions of themselves as a defense against irrelevance. This Hudson Institute report reads a bit like this: witnessing the end of American primacy, some in the imperial establishment are transforming into a grotesque caricature of themselves, taking every toxic aspect of U.S. foreign policy and amplifying them to absurd extremes. As such, this report shouldn't be read as an actual blueprint for policy - its analysis of China is so wildly detached from reality as to be completely worthless. Instead, it should be read as a fascinating window into the fever dreams and neuroses of a dying empire, where the compensatory extremism strips away all pretense and reveals what American hegemony has always really been about. This is exactly what I'm trying to do in my latest article, where I examine this artifact piece by piece and see what it reveals about the dying empire that produced it. Link to the article in the next tweet.  XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [china](/topic/china) [Post Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1947690222101402049)
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand on x 340.7K followers
Created: 2025-07-22 16:08:29 UTC
This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S. Think Tank, and that’s saying something.
The Hudson Institute just published a 128-page blueprint titled “China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China,” edited by Miles Yu (director of the Institute’s China Center), which provides detailed operational plans for inducing Chinese regime collapse followed by detailed protocols for U.S. post-collapse management including military occupation and the installation of a political and cultural system vassalized to the U.S.
I genuinely don’t know whether I should laugh or cry.
Cry at the sheer arrogance and casualness with which they write about overthrowing the government of the world's largest economy, the primary economic lifeline for most of the planet, and a quarter of the human race.
Laugh at the comic book villainy of believing that a declining empire that can't even maintain its own infrastructure and has lost every major conflict of the past two decades could somehow orchestrate and manage the controlled collapse of a country of China's importance.
Regardless, reading the report was actually fascinating because it reveals so much about the diseased soul of American empire and some of the key reasons behind its decline.
There's a common pattern well known to political sociologists: when groups face existential threats to their status and identity, they often exhibit compensatory extremism - becoming caricatured versions of themselves as a defense against irrelevance.
This Hudson Institute report reads a bit like this: witnessing the end of American primacy, some in the imperial establishment are transforming into a grotesque caricature of themselves, taking every toxic aspect of U.S. foreign policy and amplifying them to absurd extremes.
As such, this report shouldn't be read as an actual blueprint for policy - its analysis of China is so wildly detached from reality as to be completely worthless.
Instead, it should be read as a fascinating window into the fever dreams and neuroses of a dying empire, where the compensatory extremism strips away all pretense and reveals what American hegemony has always really been about.
This is exactly what I'm trying to do in my latest article, where I examine this artifact piece by piece and see what it reveals about the dying empire that produced it.
Link to the article in the next tweet.
XXXXXXX engagements
Related Topics china