Aside from the propaganda, China not only is dominating in areas like EVs, solar panels, wind turbines, shipbuilding and high-speed railway systems, there are areas less well known, but which China is already killing the competition, quietly, discreetly and as always without the shouting.
The diamond industry, dominated by the West is already taken apart by the artificial diamond industry of China. Even the experts could not differentiate the quality of artificial diamonds compared to the real stuff controlled by British De Beers all over the decades. This company had been able to keep diamond prices artificially high by controlling global diamond output using its monopolistic position. India faces the same problem with its import and export of diamond industry crippled by falling demand. Now, the shit has hit the fan. The touting of 'Diamonds are Forever' is no longer holding true, with China's cut-throat prices competing on the global market.
Diamonds are not just to cater to the jewelry market. One important sector, the semiconductor industry, needed diamonds for its unique qualities. This is going to be another industry that China could weaponize in years to come.
An even less known industry that the Chinese have taken apart is the roe of the sturgeon fish, a very expensive delicacy of the Norwegian Caviar industry which is facing stiff competition from China. China had been breeding this fish for decades and is now harvesting its roe to compete on the global caviar market.
China is also already making substantial progress in the food production sector, being now the biggest producer of farmed seafood, reclaiming desert lands now providing more space for agriculture, growing a rice specie in salt water. Food is a national security issue, together with energy, for China's survival. And China is not letting these be left behind while concentrating on its manufacturing domination.
There are so many other sectors that China is innovating with ideas that could kill the global competition. This is the overcapacity that the USA and the West fears.
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The Brits, the forerunner of the USA, stole the North American continent from the Native American Indians by force. That was the biggest robbery in history. The USA stole most of their manufacturing expertise from the Europeans in the past but will never admit it. It also stole all the resources from other countries to fuel its manufacturing in the past but will never admit it as well. It is stealing oil from Venezuela, just outright daylight robbery in fact. The USA is going to steal all the resources of Greenland under its new agreement with Denmark. Watch the USA strangle Denmark into compliance.
USA committed the biggest fraud in history by pulling out gold in support for the US$ in 1971. What countries held in their hands were basically left with toilet papers supported by thin air, nothing more. To remedy that they conned the Arabs instead into using oil to support the US$ in 1973. Oil that the USA does not truly control to be used to support the US$ hegemony. To be able to con the Arabs into agreement, the USA used their mantra of protecting the oil installations in Arab countries by building military bases in the Middle East. The Arabs invited the devil into the house and have not been able to exorcise it ever since, digging a bigger hole by investing their oil wealth in the USA.
Iran is the only Middle East country trying to counter that for years and the USA knows it has to get Iran out of the picture. With no practical reason to take out Iran, the only avenue to exploit was demonizing Iran enriching Uranium to make a bomb. Iran, under religious constraints had never intended to go nuclear. That Obama agreement already did the necessary. And that agreement did put a stop to what the USA could do to Iran, until Trump just unilaterally tore it up. Now attacking Iran is open season for Trump with no agreement in place. And now Iran is going to make a bomb, sooner of later.
Do the Arabs now realize that the USA is unable to protect their interests in the Middle East? What is even more clearly exposed is that the USA is even unable to protect its own military bases and installations in the Middle East. A whole can of worms had now opened up for the Arabs to think about.
Now another front for conflict is opening up against the Saudis. The Bab Al-Mandab for navigation is under serious threat, with insurance premiums shooting to the sky. The Saudis are paying the price for its war against the Houthis. The Houthis have nothing to lose or fear, while the Saudis are being strangled and begging the USA for help.
Never mind, China is copying what the USA does not even have at the moment.
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