美國官員自己說的，與蘇聯的冷戰是西方文明家庭內部的衝突，中國崛起則是非高加索人的不同文明的挑戰，滑稽的是說話的人是黑人，

她也不是白人，即非高加索人。以下是《華盛頓郵報》的報道摘錄：

The Examiner’s description of the State Department’s thinking contains remarkable details. Skinner describes great power competition with China as “a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before.” China “poses a unique challenge … because the regime in Beijing isn’t a child of Western philosophy and history.” The Cold War constituted “a fight within the Western family,” while the coming conflict with China is “the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian.”