Restless Souls/Summary: Difference between revisions

* mediale Bubble von Reps/Dems, Polarisierung, Spaltung der US-Gesellschaft, zu starke religöse Prägung (Creationisten, etc.), Symptom: Hang zu Verschwörungstheorien / "alternativer Fakten", 70 % der Rep glauben US Wahl wurde manipuliert, in der Summe Amerika immer leichter Ziel russischer/chinesischer Desinformationskampanien

* "Gemeinschaftliches" Hacking von China und Russland

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 in general and the missing ownership of companies for the digital economy (hence even more dependency to USA) were all hampering factors which made it very easy for China to pass the EU 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 [[wp: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]] so much into 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 African 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.)

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'''. This had become mainly possible as China had a cold war with USA - forcing them to spend so much money in an arms race that the old super power almost reached its limit in serving its debts. China almost dead-raced USA as USA had done with the Soviet Union.

China's hacking campaign and bounty for US soldiers in Afghanistan had been just the sugar coating of a charm offensive to Russia who had been thrown out of Afghanistan decades ago by Al-Qaida that the CIA had build up.<!--Add more economic points here?

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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 wood, oil, natural gas, 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.