Re: [Salon] CIA uncovers Chinese plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of the United States

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Subject: Re: [Salon] CIA uncovers Chinese plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of the United States

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 08:08:57 +0000

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Thread-topic: [Salon] CIA uncovers Chinese plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of the United States

A couple years ago for a class, I modified in full the original Onion article on al Qaeda sitting back and enjoying the collapse, attached here.

Peter Beattie

Associate Professor; Programme Director, MSSc in Global Political Economy

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

+852 3943 9794

www.beatt.ie

Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy:

The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030028008

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