Continues from Part 2, https://behindthenews.co.za/the-5-major-power-centers-globally-part-1-of-a-3-part-series/
London
For the past 500 years, Europe has been the epicenter of global conflicts or their instigator. Today, its independent military potential is depleted – both economically and socially. To rebuild, Europe would need years of aggressive militarization, which would impoverish its citizens. Western European leaders seem determined to ensure the latter, but they are not yet ready for the former.
The European Union’s bureaucratic dysfunction cannot be ignored. For over 15 years, top EU positions have been assigned based on two criteria: incompetence and corruption. The reason is simple – after the 2009-2013 financial crisis, EU states lost interest in strengthening the bloc. Consequently, Brussels no longer seeks independent-minded politicians with strategic vision. The EU’s elites, as well as its populations, understand that escaping American control is impossible. Many secretly wish it were otherwise. However, Donald Trump’s new approach to transatlantic relations is likely to be far harsher than anything seen before. And, this is where the nightmare for the Rothschild family, along with its associated networks of power plus its vassal states, etc., starts. London is the head of the snake. It, along with its cousins in France –the other leg of the Rothschild family- control Europe, Israel Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus its vassals in the Global South such as South Africa, Kenya, and a bunch of other nations. The Rockefeller family intends to crush this collective Rothschild group of nations. In addition, the Rothschild Deep State apparatus in the US is also under attack by Trump-a Rockefeller proxy/agent/puppet.
The Rothschild family was the wealthiest family on earth between 1830 and 1917. Their wealth began a much slower growth since then. Add to this is that many of their valued overseas holdings were lost to the Rockefeller family and to various nationalist forces. The 2 world wars dented their fortune.
While the Rockefeller family started some 60 years (1810 vs 1870), it overtook the Rothschild’s in wealth by the end of World War 2. What greatly helped was the war loot recovered from Germany and Japan. This, and later recoveries netted some 1-2 million tons of gold, and the bulk of this is under Rockefeller control. The underlying bases of the Rothschild Empire – mainly Europe, is hopelessly broke. This is truer of Britain, France and Israel. Its EU base is de-industrialized and de-militarized. It has become too weak in the two main sinews of power- military force and financial power. This has put it in a very dangerous place. The family is now capable of doing crazy moves that may plunge the world into a global war. The family’s reasoning goes like this – “I rather blow up the world than see my empire destroyed”. That, folks, is their mentality. We will discuss the two main conflicts –Gaza and Ukraine- and we will show how this process is taking place, in our forthcoming articles.
Below is a diagram of the Rothschild/European Deep State
3 Moscow – Russia
Moscow is Putin’s base. He became the Russian leader in December 1999. Since then, he has managed to reduce the influence and control of the two families over Russia. Russia has always been a target of the 2 families, and Putin survived many assassination attempts on him by the 2 families’ agencies- the CIA and British Intelligence. By 2014, this hostility broke out in the open, eventually climaxing in the current Ukraine conflict.
Putin followed up on the geopolitical moves started by his predecessors in the 90s to unite Eurasia. Since 2007, Putin worked hard to make this a reality. For around two decades after the (First) Cold War Russia tried building close ties with the European Union, the United States and other countries of the political West. Obviously, ties to its old friends never died, but were essentially reduced in terms of practicality. Moscow didn’t want any sort of enmity with NATO, seeking to build a mutually beneficial relationship that would defuse tensions and create an atmosphere of peace and cooperation. However the NATO-orchestrated Georgian War of 2008 was the first direct clash between a Western proxy and the Russian military on the territory of the former Soviet Union. This was followed by another attempt that escalated into another all-out war, this time in former Ukraine, one of the most prominent republics of the USSR that got hijacked by NATO back in 2014. Since then, the Kremlin fully focused on building an alternative system that would give the world a chance to choose a far more sovereign path. However, even after 2014, Russia tried to ensure peace by promoting the Minsk Accords, but this too turned out to be yet another attempt to trick Moscow. Realizing that it cannot trust a single word coming from the mouth of any Western “leader”, the Kremlin launched a full-scale strategic counteroffensive on February 24, 2022. The special military operation (SMO) became a sort of litmus test of who exactly are Moscow’s friends and allies.
Russia rekindled ties with its old friends from the (First) Cold War. This is particularly true for North Korea, effectively a “pocket superpower”. However, Pyongyang is far from the only ally Russia could count on. President Vladimir Putin’s recent Asian tour showed that Moscow could count on others as well. Alliances have been formed with only three countries (China, Iran and North Korea) at the moment. This unprecedented development means that, the US has now managed to create the outlines of a new military alliance of nuclear-armed states. While this includes 2 nuclear states, this alliance could soon go well beyond Eurasia and include numerous other countries around the globe. Close ties with Iran also keep growing in virtually all aspects, be it economy, military, science and even space cooperation, while also promoting regional stability in the Middle East, which stands in stark contrast to the policies of the US-led political West. The continued bloodshed in the region is a direct consequence of decades of NATO aggression on any remotely sovereign country in the Middle East. Precisely because of this many are waking up and forming closer ties with Russia, be it Sudan, Egypt or numerous other countries across the region. This is also true for many other nations in Africa, where the “Wagner” PMC (private military company) is with the main focus on fighting NATO-backed terrorist groups. The Kremlin is also rebuilding alliances in Latin America. Recent visits of a world-class Russian nuclear-powered submarine demonstrate that Moscow is still very much capable of projecting power in the vicinity of US shores, a stark reminder to the 2 families that they will have nowhere to hide if things ever escalate. Obviously, apart from Cuba, Russia also maintains close ties with Venezuela, another Latin American country that the US has tried invading on multiple occasions (all unsuccessful, luckily). The Kremlin’s supply of advanced fighter jets and long-range SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems gave all these countries a distinct advantage.
Either way, the US aggression is finally starting to yield positive results, as numerous countries are starting to push back. Joint efforts of Russia and North Korea will serve as an example to many others that only a united world can ensure the end of the US/NATO aggression are now entering its final lap.
Planned NATO-Kiev Assassination of Putin and Defense Minister Belousov: How NATO and Neo-Nazi Junta Lunatics Nearly Blew Up the World. Belusov is the architect that resulted in the country zooming past both Germany and Japan. Impressed by Belousov’s results, Putin promoted him to the post of Defense Minister as part of a major reshuffling that is incomparable to anything seen since the (First) Cold War ended. Thus, it can be argued that Putin and Belousov are now the Eurasian giant’s two most important policymakers. Expectedly, all this makes both of them prime targets for Russia’s enemies. It’s virtually a given London thinks that removing such people would be a deadly blow to the Kremlin
Namely, according to Moscow, Kiev, London and the United States were preparing precisely that during the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg. Obviously, the Kremlin was furious, but unlike Washington, it’s run by sane people who don’t want to see the world blown up. Thus, Defense Minister Belousov himself talked to his US counterpart Lloyd Austin and politely explained what would happen to the US if anything like this were to happen again.
For obvious security reasons, Moscow couldn’t reveal the details. The Kremlin warned the Pentagon that if US services succeeded it would be the very last thing anyone from America would ever do, and warned the US that the consequence of such barbarism would be the total annihilation of every single culprit. Russian forces seized on the folly of Ukraine’s deployment of its crack brigades and prized Western armor into a forested, lightly populated, confinement cage – and settled down to a leisurely ‘turkey-shoot’.
Moscow refused the bait to draw down Russian reserves on the Donbas front to deploy into Kursk. And Putin clarified, with quiet confidence, in Vladivostok that Zelensky “accomplished nothing from the Kursk offensive. The Russian forces have stabilized the situation in Kursk and started pushing the enemy from border territories, whilst the Donbass offensive has made impressive territorial gains”. For the sake of clarity, Putin said the enemy is suffering very heavy losses, both in manpower and equipment. Roughly, since August till now, about 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed- at the rate of 10,000 a month, in addition to large losses in equipment and machines. This situation, he underlined, could lead to the collapse of the front in the most critical areas, and result in the complete loss of combat capability of its entire armed forces.
The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking the EU and the US. As it stands, a deaf, dumb and blind Washington remains obsessed with its single-minded declared goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov cuts to the chase: “It is impossible to negotiate with terrorists”, adding that “no schemes or so-called ‘peace initiatives’ to cease fire in Eastern Europe without taking into account Russia’s national interests are possible. Conferences won’t help either, no matter how beautifully they are named.” And that brings us to the current incandescent juncture. There are only two options ahead for the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine: an unconditional Kiev surrender, or escalation towards a NATO war against Russia.
A senior Kremlin official, Ryabkov has no illusions – even as he puts it quite diplomatically:
“Signals and actions that we are witnessing today are aimed towards escalation. This will not force us to change our course, but will create additional risks and dangers for the United States and its allies, clients and satellites, no matter where they are.”
The four main takeaways: The U.S., UK and NATO are now on Full Hybrid War mode against Russia.
On a positive note, the Global Majority is on the move: Russia is closely cooperating, increasingly, with scores of nations in West Asia, wider Asia, Africa and Latin America. After a series of extraordinary “coincidences” these past few weeks, from “lone gunman” assassination attempts to engineered coups, outright threats and mysterious disappearances, the whole BRICS-SCO ecosystem has to be on very high alert. Beijing has all its attention focusing on Empire of Chaos provocations in Taiwan while Moscow focuses on NATO provocations in Ukraine. Both have had enough of being “polite”.
Russia warns the US: “You want confrontation? Confrontation is what you’re going to get.”
Eurasian countries are pooling efforts together to jointly counter the U.S. claims on global hegemony and the West’s interference in other states’ affairs, Lavrov said , The U.S. and other Western countries “are trying to interfere in the affairs” of Eurasia; transferring NATO infrastructure to Asia; holding joint drills and creating new pacts. Lavrov predicted: “This is a geopolitical struggle. This has always been; and will perhaps, last for long – and maybe we will not see an end to this process. Yet it is a fact that the course towards control from the ocean of everything that occurs everywhere – is now countered by the course towards uniting the efforts of Eurasian countries”.
Sergei Karaganov, (in a however, inserts his more sober analysis:
“Unfortunately, we are heading for a real world war, a full-blown war. The foundation of the old world system is bulging at the seams, and conflicts will break out. It is necessary to block the way leading to such a war … conflicts are already brewing and taking place in all areas – – – The UN is a dying breed, saddled with the Western apparatus and therefore unreformable. Well, let it remain. But we need to build parallel structures … I think we should build parallel systems by expanding BRICS and the SCO, developing their interaction with ASEAN, the League of Arab States, the Organization of African Unity, Latin American Mercosur, etc.”.
“In general, we are interested in establishing a multilateral nuclear deterrence system in the world. So, I am personally not worried by the emergence of new nuclear powers and the strengthening of old ones simply because reliance on people’s reason doesn’t work. There must be fear. There must be greater reliance on a “nuclear deterrence-fear, inspiring-sobering up”.
Yet the capacity for a continent-wide nuclear ‘security lock’ versus a nuclear-equipped NATO is evident: Russia, China, India, Pakistan – and now North Korea – are all nuclear weapons states, so a certain degree of deterrence potential is baked-in. For a security architecture is not conceptually just ‘military’. The agenda embraces trade, financial and sanctions issues. Putin made several key statements at a recent meeting with Russia’s top industrialists. He said that Russia must industrialize Russia’s economy; to become a sustainable self-sustaining economy with a very small portion of its economy reliant on imports; to focus exclusively on trade relations with the BRICS nations, the East and the Global South.
Have no illusions though! The cold reality is that western ‘Power Structures’ own the wealth, the key institutions in society and the levers of enforcement. To be plain: they hold the ‘commanding heights’. How will they manage a West edging towards moral, political and possibly financial collapse? Most likely by doubling-down, with no compromise. And that predictable ‘doubling down’ will not necessarily be confined to fights within Europe – it will go global. It is really a spectacle for the ages to see the plutocracy of a 200-year-plus savage nation (the US which essentially looted most of its land from others believe it can simultaneously challenge the Persians, the Russians, and an Asian civilization with 5,000 years of recorded history. Well, savages will always be savages.
4 Beijing – China
China was a major power in Asia between the 10th and 17th centuries. A key driver of this was the ancient Silk Road. By the middle of the 1400s, China began withdrawing into isolation. At around the same time, developments in Turkey and Spain began to change the trajectory of global trade. In 1453, the Ottomans conquered Constantinople –present day Istanbul. This was a key node for the Silk Route trade. Upon taking over Constantinople, it imposed a tighter control over this trade, which reduced the profits of European traders based in Venice and Genoa. In Spain, the Christians took over the country from the Moors, and expelled them in 1494. Since Spain and Britain was at the end point of the Silk Route, they ended up paying the highest amount for goods from the East. To increase their profit margins, expeditions to find a new route to India and China began. In this, we find such as Columbus and others. This is what led to Europe colonizing various parts of the world. This was the beginning of the domination of the West. Europe built up vast maritime, trading and colonial empires. Since they were not land powers, they discouraged the use of transportation corridors connecting the East to the West, in order to maintain their dominance through maritime power and advance military technology.
China was the world’s largest economy till the mid-19th century. With British/Rothschild takeover of China, the country disintegrated. In 1949, China regained its independence. But, it took another 3 decades for it to start growing the economy, all thanks to David Rockefeller’s aim to bring China into its orbit in the early 1970s. By 2000, the view of China changed within Rockefeller circles, and moves began to be made to “control” China’s economic trajectory and future growth. What followed was economic and financial warfare, coupled with military threats and sanctions. This onslaught increased after China, under XI, began to aggressively roll out its BRI program in 2013.
Currently, China is the world’s largest economy. This infuriates the Rockefeller Empire, but they have run out of options to bring back the “old days”. Both Russia and China have become strategic partners, acting in unity and working to get rid of the toxic US influence in Eurasia. These two nations have been joined by other nations in Eurasia, who have been placed on the list of countries targeted by the US.
The history of maritime empires has always been one of sea dominance, as the name itself implies. However, whenever they become too powerful, they all seem to make one persistent mistake – trying to go against land powers on their home turf. Even then, maritime powers usually realize just how hopelessly outclassed they are in such a fight, so they resort to cunning strategies of pushing one land power against another, an approach that sometimes results in conflicts of global proportions, with devastating consequences for anyone but the sea powers themselves. So far, land powers have been the most unfortunate in this regard, bearing the brunt of the damage while gaining very little for such a massive sacrifice. A good example is Germany, which foolishly tried to implement not once, but twice, thus playing right into the hands of the likes of the United Kingdom, United States and their allies.
And indeed, the latter two (particularly the US) profited immensely from both world wars, drastically expanding their colonial empires and exploiting the world to the fullest, even to this very day. The UK, although unable to maintain its direct colonial power during the (First) Cold War, still kept much of it indirectly, both through the British Crown and organizations such as the Commonwealth. Nowadays, both Russia and China are working virtually in lockstep. Precisely this sort of cooperation between the two superpowers is a massive problem for the political West. The US and its vassals and satellite states once employed actual diplomacy to undermine such an alliance and it worked to a large degree, freezing the Soviet-Chinese relations for decades. That period has now come to an end, thanks to the various Eurasian land bridge projects connecting Eurasia, which has now come to be known as China’s BRI. In addition, China has ramped up the expansion of its navy, as a means to counter the US stranglehold on maritime trade.
However, another important aspect of the overall strategic shift in China’s geopolitical planning is its new naval doctrine. Namely, Beijing has drastically reduced its land military forces and invested hundreds of billions into building up its naval power. However, China’s virtually complete refocus on its navy is a clear indicator of who the Asian giant sees as the true threat to its national interest.
China operates three aircraft carriers and is planning to have a fleet of up to six by the early 2030s. Once again, this serves as undeniable evidence of its strategy. The latest has been the introduction of the world’s first drone aircraft carrier. No other nation in the world has this. This drone carrier is the first of many, and it is much more effective than standard aircraft carriers. It can be built quickly and at a fraction of the cost of a normal carrier. This latest addition to the Chinese naval power is giving the Pentagon strategists multiple cardiac events. While Washington DC keeps dreaming of making Moscow and Beijing hate each other, these two are sharing their vast knowledge and expertise in various fields. The Sino-Russian alliance serves as the blueprint of how diplomacy and geopolitics should be conducted. It also demonstrates the dynamics of relations within BRICS+ – non-interference in internal or external affairs of any country. The heart of the matter is China’s rising status as the top global trade power – as scores of nations across the Global South adapt to the fact that interaction with China is the privileged vector to improve their own domestic living standards and socioeconomic development. This monumental shift in international relations is reducing the collective West to a bunch of headless chickens. China’s increased power is reflected in every major geo-economics move. The future of all Global South nations involved getting closer and closer to China.
In sharp contrast, the Rockefeller Empire simply cannot contemplate a world that it does not control. For the whole collective West, the demented double trouble desire of maintaining hegemony while preventing the rise of China is unsustainable. However, there has been a 180-degree turn in Washington and New York since then. World-class diplomats were replaced by bureaucratic yes-men. Ever since they announced their “no limits” partnership, the mainstream propaganda machine has been trying to ridicule it. However, both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are actual sovereign leaders of their countries. They’ve kept their promises and the Russo-Chinese alliance is now growing much faster than initially predicted. The US is trying to torpedo this in any way it can.
Target China
China’s strategy Exposes Decades of America’s Sino Phobic Lies.
The rise of China, more accurately the return of China, is such a challenge to several deeply held core beliefs of many in the west:
– The Chinese cannot innovate
– The US is exceptional
– The US can defeat China as it is stronger economically, technologically and militarily
– The neoliberal capitalist system in the US is inherently superior to the Chinese communist system (though few can define communism)
– China is an interloper in a world of “the end of history” that should be rightfully dominated by the US and its vassals
– White people are superior to other races. None of the above is true. Here are some uncomfortable facts for the brainwashed. Consider this as free education to inform your public school educated mind –
– The Chinese can innovate. When Europe was still living in the Dark Ages, China gave the world a few modest innovations – paper, printing press, gunpowder, compass, silk, and its namesake China. The Chinese invented PAPER in the 2nd century during Han Dynasty. The Europeans didn’t get the technology until 12 centuries later through the Arabians. The Chinese invented gunpowder (known as black powder) in the 9th century during Tang Dynasty. Europeans learned about this technology from the Mongols in the 13th century – at the receiving end of it. The Chinese sailed to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in 1405 on ships ten times bigger than the Portuguese who started the Age of Discovery a century later. Columbia didn’t arrive in the Americas until 1492. The Chinese built the Great Wall and the Grand Canal before the Europeans had the concept of public works. No European capital could carry water for Beijing when Marco Polo visited in the 13th century. In 2014, the vaulted Harvard Business Review published a cover story titled Why China Can’t Innovate. In 2021, it ate its own words and published another one titled China’s New Innovation Advantage. From cannot innovate to innovation advantage in 7 years. Pretty funny for a prestigious publication to say water is not wet and then say water is wet after all a few days later. In the field of AI, 47% global AI talents are in China. Among the top AI research institutes in the US, Chinese researchers account for 38%, more than any other nationalities including Americans. Here is a kicker. China is not only the only country that operates its own space station but also can send astronauts to the station and return them to earth, pretty much on schedule.
– The US is not exceptional. No doubt it has done great things and led the world in the second and third industrializations. The US also has done horrible things and great harm to many parts of the world, including the people originally inhabiting the land. The US (especially after the Rockefeller family took control of the White House in 1934) is not particularly virtuous – its history is filled with genocide, slavery, deceit, racial apartheid, and violence. Ever since its deep state blew off JFK’s head in a public execution and open coup, the US is a de facto mafia rogue state – from unilateral wars of aggression based on lies, 911 false flag attack against its own population, complicity in Israeli genocides, use of outlawed weapons (deleted uranium and white phosphorus bombs), extra-judicial killings, concentration camps that make Nazis look good (Al Ghraib, Guantanamo), legalized torture dubbed as enhanced interrogation, illegal regime changes dubbed as color revolutions, sponsoring of terrorists like ISIS, and proxy wars that have killed millions in Ukraine and Syria. The US is exceptional only in the sense it acts above international laws and can flaunt the so called rule-based order any time it wants. The US exception means committing crimes with immunity. Just look at Europe. The most truly exceptional thing about the US is the exceptional hypocrisy the regime hides its crimes behind as it promotes its criminality and hegemony under the pretense of human rights, freedom, democracy, etc. The US regime operates as a mafia don. Trump’s recent extortion of Canada, Panama and the Greenland makes it clear what kind of actor it really is. The longer the undeserved US sense of superiority last, the further they will fall behind. May their ignorance know no bounds.
– The US cannot defeat China in a war, hot or cold. The economic decoupling the US has pursued in the last 8 years have failed to slow China down. Instead, Chinese trade is booming with largest ever trade surplus in human history ($1 trillion in 2024). It is the largest trading partner with 140+ countries in the world. China is now leading in more critical industries than ever from cars, high speed trains, ship building, AI, 5G, robotics, drone, critical minerals, green energy, and military technologies. I can go on and on. China accounts for 36% of global manufacturing. 70% of Amazon and Walmart sales come from products sourced from China.
The tech chokehold the US has put on China has failed. China’s semiconductor supply chain has never been stronger. The pace of Chinese tech innovations has accelerated instead of stalled. US sanctioned firms such as Huawei, Deep Seek, BYD, DJI, BGI are winning the tech race against their competitors. In fact, China now boasts the most number of top research institutes and universities globally and is widening the gap with others. China’s lead in science and technology will only widen in the coming years as the country graduates 4 times STEM students as the US annually, roughly the same as the rest of the world combined. On the military front, there is no chance the US can defeat China in a war near Chinese shores whether in the Taiwan Strait or in the South China Sea. War game after war game by the Pentagon in the last decade has shown the US will suffer a debilitating defeat against China. The only variables seem to be the speed of the defeat, the amount of casualty, and how many planes and ships will be lost. Even the US nuclear brinkmanship will not work after China has shown its ability to retaliate against continental US with its test firing of the DF-31AG nuclear ICBM missile in September 2024 (the second or third most powerful ICBM in its arsenal).
The Chinese government is enjoying the highest popular endorsement in its history with approval ratings over 90% compared with the pedestrian 30-40% in “western democracies”. Most Chinese youth are now looking at the US as a belligerent, arrogant, bad-faith, and declining opponent today instead of a benign, inspirational power to identify and learn from a generation ago. For the average Chinese, you don’t have to agree with CCP on everything to realize the US regime has no good intentions with the Chinese people and Chinese state. It’s a life and death fight. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has sent a shockwave through the US tech industry and Wall Street in the last month. Its LLM R1, trained under $6 million and 2 months, has outperformed the latest offerings from OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft, who have spent tens of billions and years on their models. The DeepSeek AI app has topped download charts in the US and China, replacing ChatGPT as the No. 1 AI productivity tool. Due to its breakthrough technology that shows powerful AI can be developed with very limited investment in compute, DeepSeek’s emergency has sent NVidia stock reeling, wiping out $600 billion in market capital.
Interestingly, barely a few days after the shockwave on Wall Street, DeepSeek is experiencing a massive denial of service attacks from the US on its servers, affecting new registrations. The US government, including the US Navy, has banned the use of DeepSeek for its personnel. And the congress is already discussing ways to slow down and disrupt DeepSeek. This episode is eerily reminiscent of the Huawei ban, the TikTok ban, the chip ban, and the EV tariffs. As thoughtful people put all these panic-ridden actions in context, the most obvious conclusion emerges – the US regime is not acting from any position of strength. It is behaving like a coward who cannot compete, win honestly, and is running scared.
The list of anti-China activities out of successive US regimes is long and varied:-
– Trump started to impose 60% tariff on Chinese imports since 2017, a policy the Biden regime continued.
– The Biden regime imposed 100% tax on Chinese EVs, which have not yet even entered the US market. But the competitiveness of Chinese EVs is enough to get Biden to enact pre-emptive tariffs.
– Biden regime imposed dozens of export controls on China, often using coercion against its own “allies” to follow suit such as Holland’s ASML and South Korea’s Hynix and Samsung.
– Biden regime put thousands of Chinese companies on the US entity list with all sorts of made-up justifications in hope of disrupting these companies’ operations.
– Trump is again making noises to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. He is going further to threaten invading Panama and Greenland to contain China.
– The FBI launched the infamous China Initiative to prosecute Chinese scientists working in the US, yielding zero prosecutable case after ruining the lives of numerous scholars and scientists.
– The US regime has also harassed the hundreds of thousands Chinese students in the US, who are contributing $150 billion a year to the US economy. It is attempting to prevent Chinese students from studying in advanced technical fields. Anyone studying the defunct neoliberal economics or neoconservative politics and faux democracy is welcome.
– The congress passed a $1.6 billion smear fund in a so-called “anti-CCP propaganda” campaign. The best to counter other’s so-called propaganda is of course to launch a bigger one of your own.
– Every political appointee, as well as elected official, must espouse a fervent anti-China rhetoric in confirmation hearings, TV interviews, and corporate media op-eds. If you are not a China hawk, you have no place in the US power elite.
– Every Pentagon official and military industrial complex funded “think tanker” is expected to sound tough about the coming China US war. They come up frightening concepts like “unmanned Hellscape” strategy in the Taiwan Strait, seemingly unaware China is far more advanced in drone tech and production.
– The US has tried to mobilize its vassals from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and India into anti-China military alliances. It has formed fearsome-sounding acronyms like AUKUS and QUAD, which are looked upon in awe only by itself. The “most powerful country in the history of the world” (as self-claimed by multiple US regimes) seems unconfident to take on China on its own. On the other hand, China is playing its own game. There is no political figure or “expert” jumping up and down on national or local TV to shout against the US. There is little attention paid to the theatrics in Washington and its client states. China is focused on overcoming the difficulties posed by the aggressive US actions, reducing dependencies, and developing its indigenous capabilities.
– China has diversified its trades. Trading with emerging markets now account for more than 50% of China’s total trade. Trade with the US is less than 3% of its GDP as of 2024.
– Huawei has revived its mobile business and dethroned Apple to return to market leadership in China. Its leadership is more entrenched in the core telecom technology area. It is more vertically integrated with its own chip design and manufacturing supply chain. Huawei has expanded its product offerings to include mobile operating systems (Harmony OS NEXT), electric vehicles, streaming services, and autonomous driving.
– In AI, Chinese companies are making rapid progress. In addition to DeepSeek, Byte Dance, Baidu, Alibaba, 01.ai have all developed sophisticated LLM models.
– China leads in industrial AI applications from robotics, drones to autonomous driving. Companies such as Unitree, DJI, BYD, and Xiaomi are integrating AI technologies into multiple areas of practical applications beyond generative AI. China is also translating its industrial, technological and economic power into military power.
It has recently launched the world’s first 6th generation fighter prototypes (not one but two at the same time), the world’s first drone-carrier, the first hypersonic stealth unmanned airplanes for strike and reconnaissance, the first stealth unmanned warship, and the most powerful long-range air defense systems. It is progressing rapidly in directed energy weapons, military 5G, atomic timing, and space warfare systems. All these military technological breakthroughs were unveiled in the last 4 months. While the US politicians and military figures seem to conflate theatrics with reality, China is quietly amassing the capability to overwhelm its opponent in raw military might, industrial might and economic might. As we watch with amusement the clownish performance of the US elite, the stinking odor of fear reeks so much you can smell it from across the Pacific. China led the world in science, technology, arts and literature, and was the largest economy for most of human history. Due to its rapid economic and technological rise, the US will simply be more scared. The causes of its fears will not lessen but proliferate. China’s rise is a return to normality as history normalizes after an aberration of 500 years of western colonial domination. The US came out of this aberration in human history, and it is the interloper, not China. The US is not some “chosen country” just like the Jews are not some “chosen people”. Your god is not our god. Your destiny is not our destiny.
– White people are not superior. It will take millions of words to discuss the state of affairs in the US and much better-informed authors have written volumes on the empire’s polarization, inequality, dysfunction and decline. I wouldn’t spill too much ink here.
In short, China is outpacing –not only the US- but the entire West. Its industrial production is now larger than the entire West combined. Going forward, China will become ever stronger, while the US and the West will become ever weaker.
The story continues in Part 3 ….
