Early last month, the Ministry of State Security in China presented a report to top leaders

in Beijing, including President Xi Jinping, warning that they were facing a very serious

international backlash over the coronavirus pandemic.

And that because of this, they needed to prepare for the worst-case scenario, war with

the United States.

Now, it's hard to know how seriously they take the threat or how likely they think

a war will be, but many people have been concerned over escalating military tensions between

the US and China.

Not that long ago, China sent a strike group through the South China Sea near Taiwan.

The US responded by lining up a bunch of bombers, an elephant walk they call it in Guam, and

then sending US warships into the South China Sea, where ultimately China claimed they

expelled one of the US warships.

Now, the US Navy denies this.

But we've also heard from people like Magic Nois, famed intellectual dark web personality,

who said China is preparing for war.

Now whether or not a war really happens, I don't know, I'm not trying to be overly sensational,

but we are getting this report now from Reuters saying that China has been warned by its

top officials to prepare for this.

Now when it comes to the United States, there are concerns that people in media are pushing

Chinese propaganda, and it certainly seems like many of them are.

But that doesn't matter, because the sentiment among the American people is that China is responsible

for this.

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