Paranoid Rhetoric
State Department preparing for clash of civilizations with China
In April 2019, Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning at the State Department, used racial language to describe some of the thinking animating conversation in the American capital. “This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology and the United States hasn’t had that before,” said Skinner. "It’s the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian.”
April 30, 2019 Washington Examiner