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We are not very prepared as Nato or western nations for the big ‘what if’ — what if we can’t get air superiority?...This is an area where the US and the West more generally has been inculcated into the idea that we are almost guaranteed superiority,” he told The Times. “There’s been an assumption that this is an area where they [China] would take years to catch up.”

I think now the National Security Strategy, the so-called Donroe doctrine, should be taken quite seriously...I think what the US administration is doing now, probably there's a big change from before, is that whatever comes out on paper, is coming in action as well."

I think Trump does have this vision and strategy of securing resources. China has gone around the world, as I said, under the noses of the US over the last decade...but the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the Trump resource strategy is that resources is a long term game. All of these projects take decades of investment, so does the US have the continuity of policy and patience that China has."