As the world's number one hegemon, there is hardly a country in the United States that is not afraid of its coercion, and China is an exception. Recently, a discussion article entitled "China is not afraid of the United States" published by the Australian media has been on the hot search on the Internet. This article does not exaggerate or underestimate China from the perspective of traditional Western media, but compares the strength of China and the United States from multiple perspectives such as economy, military, and international influence. According to the Australian media's point of view, although the United States has spent a lot of resources to encircle and block China, China has never been afraid of the United States, and from the perspective of strength, the Chinese have no reason to be afraid of the Americans. The funny thing is that the current US top leadership still does not understand this truth.
Let's start with the economic level, relying on the hegemony of the dollar and strong industrial and manufacturing industries, the United States has established its position as the global economic hegemon since the end of World War II. To date, the United States remains the world's largest economy, but the dollar's influence continues to decline, and due to the effects of "deindustrialization", it is not as strong as it used to be. On the other hand, China's economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening up, not only becoming the world's second largest economy, but also establishing a complete industrial chain system, and the world's largest single sales market.
At present, the United States is experiencing serious inflation, the credibility of the dollar continues to fall, and the US government is burdened with heavy US debt. On the whole, except that GDP is still ahead of China, the United States can no longer compete with China in economic data. Especially in terms of development potential, the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States is serious, while China has the largest number of middle-class people in the world, with more than 700 million people, accounting for more than half of the total size of the world's middle class, or even twice the population of the United States. This also means that in the coming years, China's economy will develop steadily and improve, and there is still a lot of room for expansion.
The economy is the foundation of national development and the core driving force for the development of national defense and military forces. Thanks to the rapid development of the national economy, in the past 20 years, China's military strength has made great strides and achieved a qualitative leap. In addition to the scale of the military continues to be proud of the world, in terms of the update and iteration of weapons and equipment, the "speed of China" far exceeds that of the United States and other countries in the world. Taking the navy as an example, the weak Chinese navy could only rely on the "Four King Kongs" imported from Russia to prop up the façade. Today, from the 055 drive to the domestic aircraft carrier, from the amphibious warship to the new generation of nuclear submarines, from the J-15 to the J-35, the equipment of the Chinese Navy has changed wave after wave, and many of its weapons and equipment are not inferior to the US military, and even surpassed them.
Speaking of the Air Force, the advent of the fifth-generation aircraft J-20 has made China one of the three countries in the world that can independently develop and manufacture fifth-generation fighters. Judging from the performance of a single aircraft alone, the J-20 has surpassed the F-35 and F-22 of the US Air Force. At the same time, the "20" family has also continued to grow, and if the "H-20" comes into service in the near future, the Chinese Air Force will make up for the biggest shortcomings and further improve the air combat system. On this basis, China's "three-in-one nuclear strike system" will also be more perfect. In addition, China has the trump card of the rocket force, the "Dongfeng family", including hypersonic missiles, which is enough to implement full coverage of the US mainland, which is a "town artifact" that Americans are extremely afraid of.
Although the Pentagon's military spending is rising year after year, the gap between the strength of the US military and the PLA is constantly narrowing. Fundamentally, the U.S. military spends a lot, but it is mainly spent on maintaining global hegemony. To this end, the United States needs to maintain and win over its allies, deploy and maintain overseas military bases around the world, and continue to maintain military deterrence against China. A large amount of money has been spent in the field of "military diplomacy", and not much is really spent on weapons research and development and innovation, coupled with the incorrect military development route, many major projects are facing bottlenecks, and some projects that have invested countless funds have even been abandoned halfway, which makes the US military far inferior to the PLA in improving its combat effectiveness.
The economic and military decline has weakened the influence of the United States in the international community. Especially in the past two years, from the Russia-Ukraine conflict to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States has not taken into account the sovereignty and interests of small and medium-sized countries in order to maintain its hegemony. China, on the other hand, has always been "strong but not hegemonic", and has actively helped the vast number of small and medium-sized countries, daring to speak out for the weak and small countries that have been bullied by the United States. It is precisely because of the global "bitter beauty" and the "community of destiny" strategy put forward by China that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and more and more countries are willing to engage and cooperate with China, that the "world order" dominated by the United States is completely collapsing. Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help. As China catches up with or even surpasses the United States in all aspects of economy, military, and global influence, it is time for the top level of the United States to wake up and reflect on its China policy over the years.