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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." | ||
Spite 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. This "organized chaos" and the poor status of digitization, hence even more dependency to US companies, were all hampering factors which made it very easy for China to pass them in power. | |||
China's 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 region], 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 [[wp:Desertec_industrial_initiative#High-voltage_direct_current_(HVDC)|including energy production]], farming their know-how for their own [[wp:de:Made_in_China_2025#Strategische_Zielsetzung_bis_2049|technological development]], in the end turning EU into just another export market. Also, [[wp:Africa–China_economic_relations|China invested]] into so much in African companies, infrastructure, and military goods that they trapped [https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/03/what-china-is-really-up-to-in-africa/ Africa in debts] or shares and mostly removed European's and American's influence from the continent. China needed Africa also to outsource the production of low-value goods and get cheep raw materials. (For this reason later renegade US states and their military (New Confederations) had chosen Africa territory for their proxy wars. They wanted to thwart China's growth strategy and hinder the installation of an all-enclosing WCG. The African states still remember [[wp:Scramble_for_Africa|Europe's phase of colonialism]] and hence have a somewhat open ear the NC's actual pretextual arguments but see it difficult not to continue trade with China.) | China's 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 region], 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 [[wp:Desertec_industrial_initiative#High-voltage_direct_current_(HVDC)|including energy production]], farming their know-how for their own [[wp:de:Made_in_China_2025#Strategische_Zielsetzung_bis_2049|technological development]], in the end turning EU into just another export market. Also, [[wp:Africa–China_economic_relations|China invested]] into so much in African companies, infrastructure, and military goods that they trapped [https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/03/what-china-is-really-up-to-in-africa/ Africa in debts] or shares and mostly removed European's and American's influence from the continent. China needed Africa also to outsource the production of low-value goods and get cheep raw materials. (For this reason later renegade US states and their military (New Confederations) had chosen Africa territory for their proxy wars. They wanted to thwart China's growth strategy and hinder the installation of an all-enclosing WCG. The African states still remember [[wp:Scramble_for_Africa|Europe's phase of colonialism]] and hence have a somewhat open ear the NC's actual pretextual arguments but see it difficult not to continue trade with China.) | ||
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--> For a long time Russia had intended to stay an independent player but given enough push and pull factors they very silently accepted being China's '''junior partner against their common enemy''' USA. Meanwhile Russia kept delivering oil, natural gas, swimming Thorium reactor ships and military goods. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262485473_The_Russia-China_Security_Partnership_in_the_Asia-Pacific_Region_Conjectural_and_Structural_Dimensions Russia helped out in securing the Asian Pacific region] against USA's "return to Asia" policy which in turn forced Washington to focus less on Eastern Europe - especially the Caucasus region. | --> For a long time Russia had intended to stay an independent player but given enough push and pull factors they very silently accepted being China's '''junior partner against their common enemy''' USA. Meanwhile Russia kept delivering oil, natural gas, swimming Thorium reactor ships and military goods. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262485473_The_Russia-China_Security_Partnership_in_the_Asia-Pacific_Region_Conjectural_and_Structural_Dimensions Russia helped out in securing the Asian Pacific region] against USA's "return to Asia" policy which in turn forced Washington to focus less on Eastern Europe - especially the Caucasus region. | ||
Meanwhile Kusnezow Feng, China's renowned and respected star philosopher, wrote a number of scenarios | Meanwhile Kusnezow Feng, China's renowned and respected star philosopher, wrote a number of scenarios in which the world would turn upside down in best case or witness great filters in worst case within the next century unless mankind would act in unison. | ||
The latest pandemic posed a potential '''hypercrisis''' which made it easy for Feng to | The latest pandemic posed a potential '''hypercrisis''' which made it '''easy for Feng to promote his ideas'''. In a time of new trade wars and arms races, while there were so many global debts, fighting climate change and other problems – one crisis starting or reinforcing another – seemed a very likely threat to everyone. | ||
Fully trusting Feng and having "waked up" the Chinese government wanted to counter these scenarios. Using their | Fully trusting Feng and having "waked up" the Chinese government wanted to counter these scenarios. Using their economic power they forced the other super powers to establish a global federal super state. Officially, it was supposed to be a massive revamp up version of the United Nations which China – [[wp:United_Nations#Funding|with the guaranteed US shares – had already under its control]]. | ||
Inside a united world Feng saw no more use of most national military. In fact Feng took a page from Eisenhower's book – an utterly respected ex-president of the United States who warned his people about the [https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU?t=521 military-industrial complex]. | Inside a united world Feng saw no more use of most national military. In fact Feng took a page from Eisenhower's book – an utterly respected ex-president of the United States who warned his people about the [https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU?t=521 military-industrial complex]. | ||
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America agreed on the condition that, among other reforms, all debts were removed. They thought that could give them the chance to escape the Chinese grasp one day again. | America agreed on the condition that, among other reforms, all debts were removed. They thought that could give them the chance to escape the Chinese grasp one day again. | ||
Feng wasn't really happy about WCG being that much totalitarian but accepted it as a "necessary evil" - until something better could replace it. | Feng wasn't really happy about WCG being that much totalitarian but accepted it as a "necessary evil" - until something better could replace it. Feng's and Pensatore's envisioned Biocracy and Gaia AI was going to be that kind of replacement. | ||