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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The USA and the West had already complained loudly that China is not playing by Western rules in its economic planning infrastructure. In other words, China is not allowing the West to exploit its economic vulnerabilities and let the West run riot to destroy its economy. Why should China follow USA and Western rules to give Western system a justification to gloat, when its own designed system with capitalist touch is usurping the democratic system of the West.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, China knows that this is the pre-occupation of the USA and the West to bring China down on its knees, using all efforts, from religion, to drugging, to trade wars, to tariff wars and now technology wars centering on AI and data centers and putting energy squeeze on China.
The West had been playing this game for decades, investing big money in exploitable countries and then suddenly pulling out investments when it is time to punish those countries for not toeing the line. The use of hedge funds to undermine a country's financial system is the usual modus operandi. Even the UK suffered such an episode under the hands of George Soros and Scott Bessant. We have also seen how they attacked Thailand's financial system bringing on the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997.
China refused to allow Hong Kong's financial system to be attacked by George Soros and Scott Bessant, resulting in Soros suffering losses that he is still leaking his wounds and harboring disdain against China. Elsewhere, we have seen the attempt to bring down India by concentrating attacks on its big conglomerates not too long ago. The USA has many ways to do that as rating agencies and big banks are all under its control and being used to carry out its agenda.
Vietnam had been targeted too not long ago and is probably still being targeted for being the big outsourcing destination for Chinese investments. Which is why Vietnam is treading a very careful path, knowing it is in the crosshairs of the ongoing geopolitical tussle between USA and China in South-East Asia.
Trump's appearance does not lend credence to his gloated 'perfect health' boasting that no other President had before him. How to do a fact check whether it is true.
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