China does have the economic power today to do the same, but it is soft power projection that China is migrating into, and hardly military power projection was and is the Chinese intention. China's pre-occupation is all about economic domination and building up alternative infrastructure to bypass the USA controlled system. China is moving away from playing by the USA and Western rules. In other words, total decoupling is its intention.
China must likewise move away from the idea of competing head on with the USA by throwing big money into the semiconductor and AI war by building massive data centers to take pole position. China should just continue with exercising patience, and strike when the iron is hot, just like its rise over the last three or four decades and just take its time to narrow the gap at its own pace.
The AI and data center madness is just going to collapse when usage under open systems goes dirt cheap, which will kill off the big players when their revenue stream fails to match up to cover the massive costs of building such infrastructures. Sure, just increasing the cost to users may work for a time for those large language models, but with open AI systems proliferating worldwide, only the hardcore users may continue to hang on and keep paying through their noses.
In the area of aircraft carriers, the mantra is that China is unable to make use of its fleet to project power around the world, so that is a joke to them. Did China ever say that building a few aircraft carriers was its intention to use them to go around acting as policeman to patrol the oceans? This is trying to put subtle pressure on China to fall into a sinister trap. China must not fall into such a trap engineered to put a negative spin on its aircraft carrier buildup. After all, what Iran did to aircraft carriers already tells the world that even with no aircraft carriers, it could still counter the power projection of the USA navy.
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