How did China rise to dominate in so many areas
especially in providing essential commodities, like rare earth, lithium
batteries and the raw materials needed to make them? Not only that, it
also holds the refining edge in most of the essential raw material
processing expertise, which it started to build up even before the West
realized it too late. This supports the oft repeated narrative that
Chinese leaders always think a decade or two ahead. They secure all the
resources before embarking on their intended initiative like EVs.
Likewise, retaliation against USA and European sanctions will be finely
calibrated to inflect maximum damage and not taken on the spur of the
moment and failing badly.
While the USA and the West were
leveraging on their war mongering initiative and how to carry out regime
changes, China focuses its mindset on conquering the economic benefits
of looking after its future. What is happening now with the trade and
chips war is exactly what China feared most over the decades. China
knows the USA and the West will sabotage its rise, by erecting hurdles,
sanctioning and preventing its foray into areas that the USA and the
West dominates.
The next big sanction coming against China,
after chips and TikTok, will be the supply of jet engines for China's
own planes, the C919. The C919 is selling well in China, with domestic
airlines providing a reported more than 800 planes on order. China
totally did not place a single order for Boeing lately and the USA is
retaliating with the engine sales ban on the horizon. But China is not
waiting for it to happen and is already making efforts to manufacture
its own jet engines. In fact, China already made their own domestic jet
engines for the C919 and is waiting for its airworthiness certification.
You can bet the USA and the West will erect hurdles to delay the
certification. Meanwhile the C919 passenger jet is already serving the
Chinese domestic market since mid 2023.
I also realize that
Russia is also well versed in jet engine manufacturing, and should China
want to have a more diverse supply of such engines, the Russians will
benefit greatly, while the company manufacturing such engines in USA
will suffer the long-term consequences. The jet engine sales ban will
backfire for sure.
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Media reports said China has already started simultaneously building two nuclear-powered 100,000-ton aircraft carriers, its fifth and sixth carriers, which would be significantly bigger than its third aircraft carrier - the 80,000-ton Fujian. One is being built by the Dalian Shipyard and the other by the Jiangnan Shipyard.
PLA Navy political commissar Yuan Huazhi also recently said the production progress was on track and the going has been smooth on the technical front for China's fourth aircraft carrier, the Type 004 which may feature nuclear propulsion and “will soon be announced”.
China believe its aircraft carriers to be crucial to operations in the Indian ocean where it will confront and contain India on its Southern flank when it seeks to regain its stolen territory of South Tibet, which China calls Zangnan, now illegally occupied and controlled as Arunachal Pradesh by India.
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