Robert Spalding on the U.S.-China cold war

What oil is for Saudi Arabia, data is to China. 

~ Robert Spalding, retired US Air Force brigadier general, served as US Defense Attaché to China and is the author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept

(As quoted by Vitaliy Katsenelson, "U.S. and China: In the Foothills of Cold War," ContrarianEdge, October 29, 2020)