China’s communist regime is illegally expanding its territory through the South China Sea and deliberately altering its interpretation of history to maintain its ill-gotten gains, according to one expert.
“History, for the Chinese government, is plastic and can be changed and molded as necessary, as any good communist party knows,” said Gregory Poling, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank.
Poling added that the current Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership believes that the United States is in “terminal decline” and that it has been more ready to engage in hostilities since the ascension of Xi Jinping as head of the CCP in 2012….