SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: On July 1, China will do something that only America has been able to do for 80 years.

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Translated from Turkish

On July 1, China will do something that only America has been able to do for 80 years.

In just a few days, on July 1, an ordinary-looking law will come into effect.

The law says this: No matter where you are in the world, if you get involved in something China calls "separatism" or "disrupting ethnic unity," you're a criminal under Chinese law.

Even if you're not Chinese, even if you've never set foot in that country in your life.

They can't arrest you in your own country, that's true. But if you ever step foot in China or Hong Kong one day, you'll settle the score there.

At first glance, this looks like Beijing's internal affair.

But the real meaning of this law is much bigger.

Because with this, China is doing something that only America has been able to do in the world for 80 years.

It's extending its law beyond its own borders, to the entire world.

Let me explain.

When does a country truly become a superpower?

Not when its military is big. But when its law crosses its own borders and becomes valid in other countries too.

America has been doing this for years. And in the sneakiest way possible, through money.

Here's how it works.

Almost all major trade in the world revolves around the dollar, and the dollar flows through American banks.

So even if you're doing business with someone in Brazil, the moment the payment is in dollars, that transaction passes through America for one second.

And in that moment, American law sticks to you.

If you trade with a country that America says you can't "do business" with, whether you're Turkish or French, an American court can punish you.

It's done this countless times.

European banks with no connection to America have paid billions in fines just for processing dollar transactions with a sanctioned country.

No one could call it "unfair." Because both the power and the money were with America.

Now Beijing is doing the same thing. But not with money—with another leverage.

The sheer size of its own market.

China's market is so vast that no global company, no bank, can afford to lose it.

And now Beijing is turning that power into a law.

On its own, this law might seem small. But it's the final brick in a wall that China has been quietly building for years.

In recent years, Beijing has silently constructed its own legal shield.

It passed a law that doesn't recognize American sanctions. It told its own companies, "If you follow America's rules, you'll be violating mine."

And now it's extending its law beyond the border.

All of it serves a single goal. To gain the power that America has held alone for 80 years.

That's the real issue.

The issue is this: There's no longer just one rule-maker in the world.

For 80 years, America set the rules, and everyone complied. Now a second center is emerging.

From now on, every company, every bank, every investor will face the same question.

Will I follow America's rules, or China's?

On the stage, it's about minorities, ethnic unity.

But the real game being played is much bigger.

The true border of an empire isn't where its army stops.

It's where its law reaches.

America drew that border 80 years ago. China is now drawing its own.

July 1 is the first stone of that new border.

This is my personal analysis.

I'll keep tracking the developments and keep you informed.