In the past 100 years, the most troublesome thing for the United States is China, and the United States, which is deeply trapped in the Thucydides trap, will always suppress the second in an all-round way, either economically or militarily, or do everything, and the United States has completely collapsed Germany, Britain, the former Soviet Union, and Japan. Throughout the 90s, the United States was dominant. Considering China as one of the targets of repression, after 911, the United States was drawn into the war on terror in the Middle East. When we look back, China has quietly become the world's second-largest economy.
The United States has focused its attention on the Asia-Pacific region, and has exhausted all means, from economic and military affairs to all-out containment. More than a decade has passed, China has become more and more powerful, and the United States has become more and more defeated, but even if the United States has enlisted its global allies to contain China, and even called for a "new Cold War", it still cannot contain China. Many people do not understand why the United States does not dare to go to war with China.
In this regard, British experts believe that China has long been incomparable, and in addition to holding the ultimate trump card of nuclear weapons, there are other trump cards that the United States fears and cannot surpass!
China's military power is no longer what it used to be
In fact, in 1945, in order to speed up the end of World War II as soon as possible and reduce the casualties of the US military, the United States decided to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It can be said that the advent of nuclear weapons directly contributed to the end of World War II, but at the same time, it also made the world realize for the first time how terrible the lethality of nuclear weapons was.
At that time, the bright light of the atomic bomb exploded instantaneously caused thousands of eyes to be burned and blinded, and the high temperature of 6,000 degrees made a city instantly turn to ashes, which was far from enough, and then the residual nuclear radiation made the surviving lives gradually die in just a few years, until today, the surrounding sea has not been able to get rid of the residual nuclear pollution, newborn babies and young children are suffering from nuclear radiation and deformed life, and citizens are caught in the circle of cancer and live in pain.
The terrible thing about nuclear weapons is that they cannot be intercepted, and the United States and the Soviet Union have tried to intercept them several times but have failed, and once they are detonated, they will cause devastating damage to mankind. Therefore, no country wants to use nuclear weapons to destroy others and itself unless it is absolutely necessary.
However, nuclear weapons can serve as a protective umbrella for a country to deter foreign enemies. Why is it that the United States is militarily more advanced than China, but it has never dared to completely tear its skin and start a war with China? The reason is that the mainland has more than one trump card of nuclear weapons!
During the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, the two US aircraft carrier battle groups were pressed against the situation, which made us realize the gap between our strength and that of the US military, and also made us realize how strong the United States was in maritime intervention operations. Yes, China's anti-access strategy is now almost unmatched in coastal operations! In the face of anti-access strategy, no matter how advanced and courageous weapons the United States has, it will be useless!
The purpose of the mainland's anti-access strategy is to prevent and control foreign enemies from entering the first and second island chains in advance, to interfere in the mainland's Taiwan Strait issue, and to deter the mainland's territorial security. In order to make anti-access indestructible, the mainland must catch up in the fields of air and sea supremacy, and build its own communications satellites to get rid of the status quo of relying on the United States GPS.
After a lapse of 28 years, the mainland has developed from a backward situation of combat weapons and equipment at that time to a world leading tri-service equipment independently developed by independent research and development, such as the aircraft carrier Liaoning, which can effectively compete for air and sea supremacy in the second island chain by carrying several fighter planes; and stealth fighters such as the Jian-20 can effectively break through the barrier of the US military over the Taiwan Strait and strike at them.
The 10,000-ton destroyer 055 has the world's advanced anti-annihilation operations and regional three-dimensional air defense and antisubmarine capabilities, making the mainland navy's combat capability incomparably stronger; the nuclear submarine 094, the cruise missile Changjian 10, and the Dongfeng series of anti-ship missiles can destroy the enemy's air defense and accurately hit the target in a long-range strike, which is enough to deter the enemy. In addition, the Beidou satellite system has enabled the mainland to take the lead in communications and early warning, and it is also possible to weaken the United States' space power through reconnaissance satellites.
With China's anti-access strategy against the first island chain, the second island chain, and even the oceans, foreign enemies will not dare to provoke a conflict within at least 2,000 kilometers! In this regard, the US Zhilianku has conducted many military chess exercises, and the result is that the US military will face defeat if it intervenes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait!
If the United States and other foreign enemy forces insist on interfering in the affairs of the mainland and the Taiwan Strait through the first and second island chains, our military's firm determination is likely not only to carry out a hard war attack on them, but also to disturb their military morale by attacking the automated command system of the United States, after all, in 2000, the mainland Red Guest Patriotic Union accurately attacked the US network to preach justice!
In addition to its powerful military strength, the mainland's economic development momentum that has been visible to the world in recent years has also made the United States fearful.
The dark tide behind economic development is surging
Recently, the price of gold in the world has skyrocketed overnight, and the trading price has almost doubled in a short period of time, and even the recycling price has soared by more than 100 yuan. The ancients said that gold is bought in troubled times, and the sharp rise in gold has a great relationship with the global economic market, such as through the intensification of inflation, people can not afford to buy goods, and instead buy gold to preserve its value and avoid the risk of currency depreciation at any time.
Some experts believe that the reason behind the rise in gold is the collapse of the dollar's credit! Since the collapse of the huge Silicon Valley Bank in the United States in March last year, many people and even its former President Trump believe that the United States is about to face a severe economic depression. The United States was once inflationary, and the Federal Reserve had to raise interest rates several times in a row in order to ease the economic pressure. As a result, the people are miserable, and many businesses are facing closure.
Rising inflation and household and corporate debt crises have left the United States heavily indebted, and the United States has had to borrow from major world banks to alleviate the crisis.
It is worth mentioning that the GDP of the United States showed an overall growth trend last year, which may seem like a resurrection in the eyes of everyone, but in fact it is a false prosperity under its inflation. According to its polls, about two-thirds of Americans believe that the recession in their country is an indisputable fact.
The inflated GDP of the United States may also be inseparable from the fact that its political circles are facing a general election this year. The Biden administration, as a democratic party, is advocating that the U.S. economy has returned strongly after the epidemic and that inflation has decreased. But in fact, the positive economic data in the United States is due to inflation caused by the Federal Reserve's continuous interest rate hikes and overprinting the dollar. Everyone seems to be ignoring the $35 trillion US debt.
In addition to the U.S. debt crisis, there are also big problems in the structure of the U.S. economy, the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry is now also eating the United States, the quality scandal of the Wave audio industry, the U.S. military industry is not even able to supply the United States with artillery shells to aid Ukraine, it is hard to believe that more than eighty percent of the GDP of the world's largest economy is contributed by the financial, real estate, entertainment and other service industries.
Compared with the economic data of 2023, the mainland's GDP growth rate is much higher than that of the United States, but the gap with the United States in terms of GDP is widened.
Aside from the fact that the mainland's GDP has grown from a single-digit percentage of the United States to 70% in just over 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's economy has been growing rapidly and the market is full of vitality.
Judging from the data of the first quarter of this year, the mainland has a good growth momentum in industrial production, and the development of the manufacturing industry is as rapid as ever. The stable economic development of the mainland is inseparable from a huge market, abundant reserves, and a complete infrastructure system.
For example, the scale of the mainland's proud manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years, and China's manufacturing is increasingly flowing to all parts of the world, of which more than 40% of the product output ranks first in the world, and the active industry has driven a steady stream of jobs. China's manufacturing industry accounts for nearly 30% of the world's total, which is more than the United States, Japan and Germany combined.
According to the world's proven reserve data, the mainland has almost forty percent, and the most precious, used in the military and other heavy industry heavy rare earth resources are accounted for by the mainland 90%, coupled with advanced mining and smelting technology, the mainland almost monopolizes the global supply of rare earths. If the United States wants to use rare earths, most of them will have to buy large quantities from the mainland.
From this point of view, there is a dark tide behind economic development, and the false prosperity of the United States is in stark contrast to the many opportunities for China, so it is not difficult to understand the jealousy of the United States!
The international situation is trending greatly
In addition to the strength of the strong conditions, China's soft power should not be underestimated, especially now that its voice in the international community is increasing day by day. As the world's second largest economy and country with a large population and resources, China's contribution to global governance is obvious to all.
Taking the past three years as an example, China has delivered more than 2 billion doses of vaccines and medical protective materials to more than 120 countries in the global fight against the epidemic in the spirit of pure humanitarianism, and is committed to the cause of global public health. In addition, on global environmental issues, we actively participate in all conservation actions and lead by example to create a green and sustainable future. China's unshakable position in the international community has also directly enhanced the voice of developing countries in the world to support multilateralism and make the international community more fair and just.
By building the "Belt and Road" economic belt, the countries along the route will accelerate the process of industrial modernization and make the economy grow steadily. In addition, it has actively participated in the resolution of international security issues such as the prevention of nuclear weapons pollution, demonstrating the demeanor of a major country.
Looking at the global pattern, today's international order is a little chaotic, and in the final analysis, it is due to the hegemony of the United States for many years and the weakening of its national strength. When the United States is strong, it attacks from all sides and deploys military force around the world. However, with the decline of the United States, it is gradually unable to do so, and the United States and its allies have encircled Russia in Europe and China in the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States continued to instigate NATO's eastward expansion and squeezed Russia's strategic living space, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out from this. In the Middle East, the United States is a little unsure of Israel, its closest ally, because of the influence of the American Jewish consortium and the fact that Israel is at the heart of the U.S. petrodollar strategy.
In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinian civilians, bankrupting the international credibility of Israel and the United States, and the United States has no choice but to agree to a Palestinian-Israeli truce in the Security Council. But the United States does not want to end up, and it can also be said that the United States is not sure of victory, and even the Houthis in Yemen cannot do anything. This is America today.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has suppressed and contained China on many issues such as the Taiwan Strait issue and the South China Sea. At the trilateral summit of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines on April 11, it was clear that the United States had intensified its efforts to suppress China in the Asia-Pacific region, deployed intermediate-range ballistic missile systems in the Philippines sufficient to cover China's southern and southeastern regions, continuously strengthened the US-Japan and US-Philippines mutual defense treaties, and instigated the Japanese, Philippine, and Taiwan authorities to create tension around China and delay China's development.
All the things done by the United States have accelerated the increasing imbalance of the international order, and this barbaric act will also make more righteous countries sneer, and this is precisely the trend of the international situation in the future, developing towards multilateralism, so as to break the hegemonic system of the United States for many years and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
To sum up, why does the United States only dare to make small moves frequently, and does not dare to directly wage war against China despite its advanced combat weapons and strong military strength? The main reason is that China already has the military strength to confront it, and as the world's second largest economy, the relationship between China and the United States is one of competition and cooperation, which cannot be completely cut at all, and the so-called "decoupling" and all-out confrontation are both defeats, and the United States will not fight a war that it is not sure of.
Although the United States does not dare to go to war against the mainland for the time being, it has been smearing and containing the mainland. However, the reality is that the downward slope of the United States is accelerating, while China's upward slope is very steady, as long as we maintain strategic focus and strengthen ourselves, I believe that we will eventually see the day when the east rises and the west falls, and at that time, the past opponent is just a chess player who has played against us. ！