Vom DOJ veröffentlichte Bannon-Epstein-Botschaften (2019), in denen die Druckstrategie Chinas und der USA erörtert wird

Submission Statement

These are DOJ-released text messages from the Epstein Files (2019) involving Steve Bannon and a redacted interlocutor, discussing China and U.S. pressure strategy.

What stood out to me is how explicitly China is described as brittle, incompetent at high-level decision-making, and prone to collapse under pressure. The messages also appear to reference regime-change expectations, the treatment of Western “collaborators,” and claims about U.S. cyber tools being discovered and repurposed by China.

I’m curious whether others here think these assumptions meaningfully reflect how the 2018–2019 trade war and related initiatives were conceived, and whether they align with how China actually responded in practice.