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Napoleon once said: "China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world." | Napoleon once said: "China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world." | ||
Despite the European | Despite the European Union's goal to show more united strength in the global power game, it remained a paper tiger compared to other super powers. The member states were constantly quarreling over domestic and foreign policy with no clear vision for their own position in the world, the poor status of digitization, hence dependency to US companies, were all hampering factors which made it even easier for China to pass them in power. | ||
China | China is growing inside and outside their boarders on all levels, their ambitions are basically everywhere. They reached '''economic dominance'''. Ultimately China had created strong dependencies in the [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/16/economy/rcep-trade-agreement-intl-hnk/index.html Asian-Pacific area], in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Latin_America_relations South America], in the EU by having build a new silk road, dupe them in trade contracts, getting shares in key industries/companies [Desertec_industrial_initiative#High-voltage_direct_current_(HVDC) including energy production], farming their know-how for their own technical development and turning the EU into a more export-only trade area. Also, China invested into African companies and infrastructure trapping them in debts. | ||
The strongest dependencies China has created can be found within their new "domestic" Asian-Pacific market. One state after another became lost in China's economic and '''therefore political gravity'''. | The strongest dependencies China has created can be found within their new "domestic" Asian-Pacific market. One state after another became lost in China's economic and '''therefore political gravity'''. | ||
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Having all this power China began to aim higher. By now they could risk being independent from USA if they really wanted to. Therefore '''selling all their US debts''' – sometimes named "'''nuclear option'''" – became a much less theoretical option for '''blackmailing'''. | Having all this power China began to aim higher. By now they could risk being independent from USA if they really wanted to. Therefore '''selling all their US debts''' – sometimes named "'''nuclear option'''" – became a much less theoretical option for '''blackmailing'''. | ||
China hacking campaign and bounty for US-soldiers in Afghanistan were not just a dangerous muscle flexing but also a charm offensive to Russia who had been thrown out of Afghanistan by Al-Qaida that the CIA had build up. For a long time Russia had intended to stay an independent player but given enough push and pull factors they | China hacking campaign and bounty for US-soldiers in Afghanistan were not just a dangerous muscle flexing but also a charm offensive to Russia who had been thrown out of Afghanistan by Al-Qaida that the CIA had build up. For a long time Russia had intended to stay an independent player but given enough push and pull factors they silently accepted being China's '''junior partner against their common enemy''' USA. | ||
Meanwhile Kusnezow Feng, China's renowned and respected star philosopher, wrote a number of scenarios that the world would turn upside down in best cast or witness great filters in worst case within the next century unless mankind would act in unison. | Meanwhile Kusnezow Feng, China's renowned and respected star philosopher, wrote a number of scenarios that the world would turn upside down in best cast or witness great filters in worst case within the next century unless mankind would act in unison. | ||