The US has no plans of destroying China. The plan is to cage China while Western corporations scramble to catch up.
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Pay close attention to the names and faces attending this Trump-Xi Summit and you will understand the true nature of the so-called China-US trade and tech wars.
The US has no plans of destroying China.
The plan is to cage China while Western corporations scramble to catch up.
China is growing at such an astronomical scale that if these trade embargoes and energy disruptions are not enforced with surgical precision, the balance of the empire will inevitably tip toward Asia.
These mega-corporations that constitute the US empire are hopelessly addicted to Chinese efficiency.
Look at Elon Musk: his Gigafactory in Shanghai was built and operational in less than a year, a blistering speed impossible in the US or Europe due to the suffocating weight of environmental regulations, labor unions, and endless zoning bureaucracy.
The Shanghai plant is now the primary export hub for Tesla, dumping cars into Europe, Canada, and the rest of the world. Without that Chinese assembly line, Tesla would never have reached the volume of production required to dominate the global EV market.
Furthermore, while Tesla batteries remain elite and one of the bests in the world, they rely entirely on high-grade chemicals mined and refined from cobalt and lithium. China maintains a stranglehold on nearly 99% of the global processing capacity for these rare-earth minerals.
By planting his factory in Shanghai, Musk moved into the backyard of the world's mineral refineries, effectively insulating his business from the volatility of global shipping.
He also knows that Tesla cannot maintain its status as a trillion-dollar company on the American market alone; China is the only place with the sheer scale of demand required to justify Tesla's current valuation.
You can extend this analysis to every other mega-corporation in the US, from Apple and Walmart to foreign titans like Samsung.
We have to stop viewing Washington and Beijing as independent nations behaving like traditional empires.
They are two different wings of the same global economic system, locked in a room where neither can pull the trigger without the bullet hitting themselves.
Instead, they engage in a cold war strategy, desperate to outcompete each other through targeted embargoes, calculated naval blockades, aggressive patent warfare, and restrictive export controls.
This is exactly why the US cannot enforce sweeping economic sanctions on China. Just as the Cold War between the US and the USSR was defined by the fear of nuclear annihilation, the current rivalry between the US and China is defined by the fear of total economic suicide.
If the US were to place sweeping sanctions on China, the ripple effects would be catastrophic for the American corporate empire, particularly for giants like Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. China is not just a place to build; it is a massive share of their total annual revenue. If they were cut off from the Chinese market, their stock prices would collapse overnight, vaporizing trillions of dollars in wealth for Western pension funds and institutional investors like BlackRock and Vanguard.
China is equally trapped. Beijing operates a production-based economy that bleeds exports to survive; the US accounts for roughly 20 percent of China's export revenue. If China engaged in an all-out war with the US, the immediate consequence would be the total severing of trade. Furthermore, China's massive foreign exchange reserves, held largely in US dollars and US Treasury bonds, would be rendered worthless or instantly frozen.
A direct war or the imposition of severe secondary sanctions between these two nations would trigger a total collapse of the global economy.
So, China's strategy is not to defeat the US in a traditional sense, because they know that is a fantasy.
Their strategy is to outlast the US in the economic arena. They are betting that if they keep building their industrial base, expanding their predatory influence in the Global South, and refining their internal technology, the US will eventually become too indebted, too divided, and too weak to maintain its global hegemony. China is already ruthlessly capturing market share in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia by providing infrastructure and trade deals that the US is currently too distracted or financially burdened to offer, especially while Washington remains obsessed with containing heavyweights like Russia and Iran.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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