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There should be no mystery as to why conservative Republicans are busy portraying China as a future threat. The Soviet Union is long gone, and a handful of minor-league rogue nations just don’t make it as a credible challenge to the world’s only superpower. If a truly threatening bogeyman doesn’t exist, one has to be created. How else to justify a Pentagon budget approaching $300 billion a year?