Believing itself untouchable, China’s communist party is ramping up rhetoric about perceived American weaknesses in a bid to ascend as the next world leader, according to former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland. “They are looking at the rest of the world and saying, okay, America, you are where you are, but we want to lead the next world order. We want to be the leaders of a non white world, and the Asians and Central America and Latin America, and the subcontinent and Africa,” McFarland said in an interview on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program. That, according to McFarland, means manipulating narratives to their advantage, exploiting debates around racism to discredit America, wielding economic weapons to punish those that crossed their line, thwarting legitimate criticisms, and sowing division among democratic countries. “China plans to remake the world in its own image—and it is at our expense, to …