🧠 The story begins in 2017
Trump calls China "strategic competitor number 1."
Since then, the US-China confrontation has intensified, becoming more fierce every day.
📈 China has a very long-term plan
- Xi Jinping declares his goal is to achieve global dominance.
- China's defense budget has increased by more than 7% each year for four consecutive years.
- Beijing is building the largest navy in the world, rapidly increasing its nuclear stockpile.
🔍 Why is the US falling behind?
- Trump imposes tariffs recklessly without a long-term plan.
- The US lacks smart bombs, long-range missiles, and rapid shipbuilding capacity. American goods are high quality but extremely expensive and scarce.
- The US defense industry is not strong enough to fight a long-term war.
🚢 China has surpassed Asia in defense
- In 2024, Beijing will spend more on military than Japan, India, South Korea, and Australia combined!
💥 The technology-economic war is just as heated
- The US and China are splitting the world into "two camps":
- The US erects tariff barriers, controls chips and clean energy.
- China is advancing the global Belt and Road Initiative
🏗️ Globalization is dead
- One world - The flat world is outdated.
- Now there are Two worlds – the US and its allies on one side, China leading the other.
🧱 China is quietly selling US bonds from its $3.2 trillion foreign exchange reserves
- Over the past decade, Beijing has halved its holdings of US bonds.
- Reducing dependency while preparing financial blows when necessary.
🛡️ Does the US still have strong allies?*
- Yes, but they are gradually weakening:
- Asia remains divided, lacking a solid alliance.
- India, Japan, Australia, and South Korea are still reluctant to directly confront China.
- Meanwhile, China and Russia are closer than ever.
🚨 The biggest risk?
- If the US loses military superiority in the Western Pacific, Taiwan is at risk
- A US-China conflict could trigger a global economic crisis.
- Worse: it could lead to World War III.
🦅 The US is also at a disadvantage in the soft power arena
- Trump cuts USAID funding, shuts down Radio Free Asia.
- The US is weakening in the information war, while China is pumping money into developing countries.
🧨 Trump’s second term: Sometimes tough, sometimes wobbly
- Unprecedented high tariffs, then suddenly pulling back due to the bond market rebellion.
- Declares to spend $1 trillion on defense, but also praises Xi as one of the smartest leaders.
🦉 In summary:
✅ The new Cold War has been underway for a long time, and it will last for decades.
✅ China has been systematically preparing for 30 years, while the US is struggling through conflicts.
✅ Those who are impatient or miscalculate one step could turn Cold War 2 into World War 3!