> Many top Chinese communists have degrees from US universities Most leaders with a US educational background were primarily part of the Hu Jintao administrati

> Many top Chinese communists have degrees from US universities Most leaders with a US educational background were primarily part of the Hu Jintao administration. No one in the current Standing Committee of the Politburo spent an extended (as in multi-year) stay within the US or the West [0] (attending Bowling Green or UI for a couple weeks to months is not enough time to truly understand the US) nor are they technocrats (Hu's administration was unique in the amount of practitioner Engineers it had in its standing committee). > The Chinese hawkishness today is reaction to the changed attitude of Americans It very much did start in the 1990s [1] at the policymaking level and remained an active part of Chinese planning [2] for decades [3][4]. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party#Composition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Politburo_Standing_Comm... [1] - https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/brent-scowcroft-oral-history-part-i https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-hi... [2] - https://www.jis.pku.edu.cn/docs/2018-07/20180703142847819805.pdf https://www.jis.pku.edu.cn/docs/2018-07/20180703142847819805... [3] - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323960205.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323960205.pdf [4] - http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n/2014/0504/c384616-24971840.html http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n/2014/0504/c384616-24971840.ht...