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U.S. media reported that more than ten years ago GPS global positioning system swept the world, China's streets are full of cars are also equipped with the use of GPS electronic dogs, now more than ten years have passed, GPS is still rampant all over the world, but in the Asia-Pacific and Central Asia and China, Beidou has fully occupied the market, and is still increasing the share, GPS has encountered a strong opponent, the United States-led GPS in the face of Beidou's "attack" has been completely lost, and the technology update is far less than the speed of China's Beidou.
What is even more interesting is that the French media also reported a few days ago that China's industrial tsunami is sweeping the world, and Europe and the United States are trying their best to deal with it! And the most important task of US Treasury Secretary Yellen, who has just concluded her trip to China, is to curb the production capacity of China's manufacturing industry to avoid an impact on Europe and the United States.
US media: Compared with China's Beidou, GPS has lagged behind in an all-round way
U.S. media SpaceNews reported on April 8 that GPS was once the indisputable king of satellite navigation and an important tool of U.S. soft power, but now it is increasingly challenged, Europe's Galileo, Russia's Gronass, and even India's NavIC, but there is no doubt that Beidou from China is the biggest competitor of GPS, the U.S. National Advisory Committee on Spatial Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNTAB) warned, "GPS." capabilities are now far inferior to China's Beidou", and urged the United States to regain PNT leadership over the next decade.
Why is GPS in the United States outdated? Technological innovation is too slow: far inferior to China's Beidou
According to the report, GPS has been around for 30 years, among the players of these satellite positioning systems, the United States has the strongest technical force, the most abundant funds, rocket launch technology and satellite operation management level is also the highest, but it is surprising that the report said that the United States GPS technology update is very slow, such as the GPS 3 that should have been updated until 2014, and only part of the GPS 2 technology has been upgraded, such as the accuracy has been improved to 1~3 meters, which is lower than the European Galileo positioning system.
The technology to be implemented in the end of GPS is GPS 3F, which has more powerful features than GPS 3, such as all-digital navigation payloads, but the slow US plan will not be completed until the mid-2030s! The PNT (NTS-3) in the military field is still in the research and development stage, and it is not clear how long it will take for NTS-3 to be fully operational.
According to the report, China's Beidou is not as conservative as GPS at all, from the first generation of Beidou to the third generation, the United States took 46 years to complete the process from GPS to GPS 3, China completed it in less than 20 years, from the launch of the first generation of Beidou test satellite in 2000 to 2020, it took less than 20 years.
And the report also pointed out that China in the second generation has not been fully built under the condition of decisively updating the third generation, the current second generation and three generations operating together, the total number of satellites reached 56, 23 more than the 33 GPS, which also directly led to the positioning accuracy of Beidou under certain conditions is better than GPS, the report said that a public data pointed out that the scale of Beidou is larger, PNT availability is higher than GPS, and the market share in Africa and Southeast Asia is very high, Nikkei Asia reported in 2020 that Beidou surpassed GPS in 165 developing countries outside Western countries。
The report also said that China did not stop at the current technology of Beidou, and had previously creatively developed satellite SMS technology with Beidou satellites, which can also send text messages between clients while passively positioning the GPS client, which is particularly easy to use during rescue, because GPS can only know where you are, and Beidou can also let rescuers know where you are! The report said that China has also formulated ambitious plans to further improve the accuracy, safety and reliability of Beidou, including the launch of low earth orbit (LEO) constellations, Implement future technologies such as new inertial sensors and quantum navigation.
The US media are worried about the emergence of Chinese hegemony in satellite positioning
While the U.S. GPS seeks global cooperation, China's Beidou has tied the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to a larger, geopolitical-strategic, zero-sum game that aims to bolster China's soft power influence, technological leadership and economic ties in key regions to the detriment of its rivals, according to SpaceNews. From the U.S. perspective, the geopolitical implications of China's Beidou have seriously damaged U.S. national interests, and the replacement of GPS by Beidou as the dominant global satellite navigation service will weaken U.S. political and economic influence in key regions.
Beidou will consolidate China's control over global infrastructure, creating a new and stronger dependence on China for technology, infrastructure, services, and diplomacy in various regions. As Beidou integration technology becomes more and more deeply embedded in a country's infrastructure and economy, China's influence will increase, while the influence of the United States will weaken. In future diplomatic, trade, or military disputes, these countries will side with China, and the United States has lost influence in key strategic regions such as Africa, and may expand to South America and even Southeast Asia in the future.
The report also said that the construction of China's Beidou infrastructure will serve as a platform for Chinese espionage, with the Belfer Center reporting that Beidou ground stations have been installed in 11 sub-Saharan countries and authorized in four more countries (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Myanmar). China uses these facilities for espionage, surveillance, data theft, jamming, and cyberattacks. According to the report, the United States must speed up the update of GPS, otherwise China's faster update speed and services bound to the Belt and Road will allow more countries to enable Beidou, thus standing on the opposite side of the United States!
GPS coverage of the world has never said positioning hegemony, for hostile areas, the United States GPS service is closed, many netizens will not believe how the GPS passive positioning system is turned off, and also refute rumors that the United States can not be closed, but the fact is that when the Red Flag (Red Flag military exercise) was held in 2018, the US Air Force had the Nevada Test and Training Ground (NTTR) around 5, 000 square miles of GPS signal shutdown forces crews to carry out strike missions without satellite navigation, so the United States is fully capable of turning off the positioning of a certain area, so it is very likely that all of you have heard of the United States turning off GPS is true.
The global positioning system is very important for modern vehicles, such as self-positioning, with high-precision maps can navigate themselves, is an important auxiliary tool for civilian and military transportation, positioning systems can also guide weapons such as missiles and gliding bombs, special forces to perform mission navigation, UAV flight path and suicide drone mission, etc., this is too important, which is also an important reason why the mainland must be autonomous positioning system, for China, now the Americans even if they immediately turn off GPS does not matter, after all, Beidou has long been deployed around the world.
China has risen in an all-round way! The United States has been dragged down by the military-industrial complex
After reading the SpaceNews report, does it feel that the United States can no longer hold back China's Beidou? In fact, it is far more than Beidou, but China's industry and science and technology have risen in an all-round way, and the United States cannot hold any of them! On April 4~9, the most important purpose of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's visit to China was to demand that China control the production capacity of electric vehicles and solar panels and avoid so-called harm to the US economy. An old lady who travels thousands of miles to say a few words of nonsense is certainly not idle and panicked, but has come to China to talk with the quid pro quo, because the rise of China's industry and science and technology has moved the cake of Europe and the United States, especially the United States, and then the open and secret struggle between China and the United States will enter the deep water area.
Guarding against China's industrial tsunami: Europe and the United States seem to be helpless
On April 4, Agence France-Wide (Radio France Internationale online media) published an article "Europe and the United States Strictly Prevent China's Industrial Tsunami from Overwhelming", giving a very interesting statement, Chinese-made electric vehicles, machinery, consumer electronics are pouring into foreign markets, the United States and the global economy are suffering a "China shock", which lists several so-called evidence:
The EU has set a target to increase renewable energy from the current 22% to 42.5% by 2030, and the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Mr. Breton, said that "solar panels are strategically important for Europe..... But according to Brussels, the EU relies on imports for 97 percent of its solar panels, the vast majority of which comes from China, putting European manufacturers under heavy pressure.
The United States is also facing the same situation, the solar cell industry in the United States has been severely impacted, and only a few panel manufacturers can survive under trade protectionism, otherwise they would have filed for bankruptcy protection long ago. The other is China's electric vehicle industry, the South China Morning Post reported on April 6, Trump with a high probability of winning the election claimed that the Chinese are building a number of "big monster car factories" in Mexico, which has seriously affected the US auto industry, and if he returns to the White House, he will impose 100% tariffs on Chinese companies producing cars in Mexico. The United States is currently not allowed to directly import Chinese vehicles, and Chinese companies are setting up factories in Mexico to save the country, but this trick may also be stifled by Trump.
In fact, China has an advantage not only in the solar cell industry and electric vehicle industry, but also in lithium batteries, machinery, and consumer electronics, and in complex machinery (high-end machining centers, shield machines, bridge erecting machinery, etc.) and the top chip industry. According to data released by the OECD in 2020, China's manufacturing output value accounts for 35% of the global ratio, ranking first, which is the sum of the other nine manufacturing countries led by the United States.
In fact, China engaged in these are forced out by the Americans, such as the electric car industry, Europe and the United States have a game of selling cabbage to the gold price, do you know how much Santana sold in the 1990s? More than 200,000 Oh, you can buy a large flat floor in Shanghai, what kind of technology is this Santana is estimated needless to say, cast iron engine, leather durable, but the technology is too backward! Joint venture car building for more than 20 years, not even a fart technology, are the Chinese stupid? Absolutely not, strictly guard against China, I am afraid that China will learn the slightest bit of skin.
So since the 2000s, the Chinese have blazed a trail and are very far-sighted to start engaging in electric cars, battery electronic control motors are completely different from the internal combustion engine that requires technology accumulation, equivalent to another track, Europe and the United States and China stand on the same track! However, many traditional corporate giants in Europe and the United States have not made great efforts in electric vehicles out of the mentality of existing market protection, and the result is that the car manufacturers that people looked down on at the time have now become giants in the electric vehicle industry. And the field of electric vehicles has also been made into shelf products in China, and new car companies can create a new brand of car in just a few years by choosing shelf products, some netizens said that if Jia Yueting chooses to build a car in China, it is estimated that it will be another result!
The above solar cells are also a fairly classic case, in 2010, Europe and the United States filed a "double anti-dump investigation" on China's solar (photovoltaic) cell industry, when China's photovoltaic cell industry accounted for more than 1/3 of the world, Europe and the United States have launched a double anti-dump investigation on China's photovoltaic industry, but this did not make China's photovoltaic industry bankrupt, but after the reshuffle eliminated backward production capacity, a large number of new technologies, By 2022, the production capacity of China's photovoltaic industry has expanded from 1/3 of the world's total to more than 85% before the double reversal industry.
There is also a classic case that is happening is the chip industry, before Trump is ready to attack China's high-tech, domestic chips from software design to wafer manufacturing, to tape-out packaging, and then to market sales, domestic products are always tepid, can not die but absolutely not full, this time the United States sacrificed the banner of sanctions, forcing China to use domestic chips, simply put, in the short term, China will indeed affect the development of the industry because of the inability to get high-performance chips, but in the long run, China will once succumb to the sanctions and blackmail of the United States？
Behind every case is China's bitterness, blood and tears, and how can Chinese enterprises that have grown up in the midst of fierce competition, or even in the dumping of Europe and the United States, give up their advantages? The United States itself is not pursuing asset-light deindustrialization for the sake of profits, or engaging in finance for the sake of profits, and the valuations of American companies are all overestimated; for example, Tesla, whose sales are only twice that of BYD, but whose valuation is dozens of times, is this reasonable? The U.S. GDP is also counted in the sales of drugs, and this is really serious? The United States, which has hollowed out its manufacturing industry, now wants to rebuild its manufacturing industry, and the United States, which has lost a generation of industrial workers, and high-quality and low-cost Chinese manufacturing is eyeing it around, even if there are a few more Trumps, the United States will not be great again.
It is not China that is sending the United States on its last journey: it is the American military-industrial complex
The biggest enemy of the United States is not the Soviet Union, nor the current China, but the United States itself, to be precise, the military-industrial complex of the United States, or DEEP STATE, everyone has heard of this military-industrial complex, but in the end, it is estimated that many netizens are not clear about how to play, this operation is actually not complicated, and the main gameplay is like this:
During World War II, in order to mobilize the largest production capacity of military enterprises, the United States concurrently held high-level positions in the government at the top of major enterprises, directly coordinated factory production, from determining the plan to production, and then to government procurement and payment one-stop service, fast speed, high profits, and excellent payment terms The model made the manufacturing industry in the United States reach its peak during World War II, so some netizens said that Japan was not defeated by the United States, but drowned by American manufacturing, and this sentence is not wrong at all.
But after World War II, what should we do with the equipment purchased by so many enterprises, the expanded production capacity, and the workers they recruited? Obviously, no, because after World War II, the top leaders of these enterprises were promoted because of their meritorious deeds, some were promoted, some went to serve in the military, some entered the Ministry of National Defense, and some even entered the president's staff team.
So the Cold War began, many people thought it was the Korean War, that was just an appetizer, the Cold War was the main course, the entire Cold War period US military spending reached 8.5 trillion US dollars, equivalent to 30 World War II, the military-industrial complex from the government to the enterprise formed a closed loop, but what surprised the United States was that the hypothetical enemy of the Cold War, the former Soviet Union, actually collapsed!
What can we do without an enemy? Saddam Hussein, who is so good that he will not die, has come up with it, and the Gulf War, followed by the Kosovo War, and the Second Gulf War, the military-industrial complex has figured out that to maintain US hegemony, and the whole world has tasks that the United States has to solve, so the war on terror that began after 2001 has brought this plan to a climax. But there is no such thing as a feast, and the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, ending the war on terror.
No problem, the Russian-Ukrainian war has begun, the American war machine is once again throwing itself into it, Israel in the Middle East is still ready to move, and recently it has stabbed a hornet's nest - bombing the Iranian embassy in Syria, isn't this something that the military-industrial complex can only dream of? But the problem is that the United States is not as good as before, shouldering $34 trillion in foreign debt, and by the end of this year, the interest of the United States will be $1.6 trillion after all short-term treasury bonds are replaced by long-term treasury bonds.
The current state of the United States is that the treasury is empty, because no one buys the national bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury on behalf of the federal government, the Federal Reserve can't print money, and the U.S. manufacturing is still in decline, Wall Street finance is playing very slippery, but the financial sledge also needs the support of the real economy, so the real valuation of the United States is super high, and the current United States is completely in a state of high blood pressure.
However, the military-industrial complex still intends to create tension, in the case of this profit-oriented, the military-industrial complex completely ignores the current state of the United States, desperately aiding Ukraine and Israel, if there is no stubble, the United States will not be so sad now, but there is no if, the mercenary military-industrial complex will one day send the United States to the grave, and the gravedigger is undoubtedly the Americans themselves, China is just a spectator, and it is not good to add a few handfuls of soil!