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Technology Leader

China Will Replace The United States As The Technology Leader

By Fareed Zakata  – 10/5/2025

Editor’s note:

While America fights a civil war and Trump cuts funding for Advance Technology, China gets its act together and positions itself to become the world’s technology leader.  This editorial by Fareed Zakata should be read by anyone that loves this country.  We better wake up before it is too late.  The time is short.

This is what Fareed said:

In the last decade, the United States has been comforted by the notion that China had lost its way. After 35 years of astonishing growth, Beijing stumbled internally and abroad. Its leaders cracked down on some of the country’s most innovative sectors, from technology to education, driving entrepreneurs into exile or silence. Its warrior diplomacy alienated its neighbors from Australia to Vietnam.

That era is over. China’s leaders have corrected their course. This September, while President Trump accused the UN General Assembly of being hopeless failures and harassed the UN for not hiring him to renovate its headquarters decades ago, President Xi Jinping put forward a global governance initiative to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the UN’s founding. He proposed strengthening the multilateral system along a series of dimensions, positioning Beijing as the constructive, agenda-setting superpower.

As America doubles down on increasingly idiosyncratic protectionism, threatening 100% levies on foreign-made movies, for example, China announced last week that it would no longer take advantage of any special privileges of being a developing country, a major concession sought for decades by free trade advocates. As the US levies crippling tariffs on poor countries in Africa and Asia, China has offered zero tariff-based trade to any least-developed country and some middle-income countries with which it has diplomatic relations, including 53 African nations.

Julian Goertz and Geoffrey Prescott argue in a recent foreign affairs essay that Beijing has shifted from a reactive defensive stance to a more opportunistic and strategic one. Predictable, consistent policies. There was a significant area of competition, of course, in this next year. Here, China has established a commanding lead in several areas.

In green technology, from solar panels to batteries to electric vehicles, Beijing’s dominance is now overwhelming. These act at a geopolitical level, as Beijing offers solar farms, battery plants, and electric buses to nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Bloomberg has tracked 13 critical technologies and found that China now leads in five and is catching up fast in seven.

In one area, Washington still believes it has an unbelief, artificial intelligence. American firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google dominate the race to artificial general intelligence. But few can define precisely the term or explain what it means to win this race. China’s approach to AI is strikingly different from China’s. Chasing AGI, Beijing has emphasized applications and diffusion. It seeks to embed AI into every corner of its economy and society, in logistics, in surveillance, in smart cities, in health care, in drones. This strategy ensures that AI quickly produces real transformation and returns, raising productivity and embeds new technology into daily life.

China has chosen a different model of diffusion, where many American firms are looking at the frontiers of AI. For five days in a row, Chinese companies are releasing OpenAI systems, most prominently Deep-Sea, that can be easily adapted and deployed. It’s an irony that Communist China now embraces open technology platforms, while the U.S. favors closed technology. It could make China’s AI a global standard, especially in the developing world, where governments and firms are eager to achieve customer satisfaction.

Add to this Huawei’s emerging dominance in 6G technology, and it’s quite possible that the technology interface for much of the world will be Chinese, not American. What makes China’s technology strategy particularly formidable is its integration across domains. It is not just building AI models. It is weaving them into hardware, infrastructure, and cities.

Consider robots. Chinese firms are producing humanoid and quadruped machines equipped with rich sensor arrays that allow them to see and think in real environments. Just last year, China installed almost nine times as many industrial robots as the United States. Or take drones, and yes, flying cars. China is building what it calls a low-altitude economy, carving out urban airspace for autonomous aerial vehicles. In Shenzhen, drones already deliver packages. Self-driving cars have begun taking passengers. Again, the advantage is integration. Sensors, AI, hardware, and regulation are aligned to create transformative technology.

Meanwhile, in the United States, government funding for basic science and technology has been slashed. Our best universities are under siege, with the government launching a war to take down Harvard by many measures, the world’s top-ranked research university. While the government is on the verge of shutting down in Washington, the President and Secretary of Defense summoned hundreds of the country’s top generals to lecture them on staying slim and fighting woke ideologies. We need to get serious.

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America First; America Alone

September 1, 2025

America First; America Alone

By Ron Munden 

In 2022 I wrote an article that suggested that the United States of America was on a downward glide path and was destined to become a second tier country like France and the UK.  I saw China as the next world’s superpower.  I saw this happening in the next 50 to 100 years.

Today I still think the US will become a second tier nation but since Trump 2.0 took the stage, I now believe China will be the next superpower in less than 20 years.

Recently I have said that Trump’s “America First” policy should more correctly be called an “America First; America Alone” policy.  I say this because Trump 2.0 has effectively worked to turn our long time friends into enemies and make our long time enemies stronger.

In the last two weeks I have seen that this transition is well underway.  Last week Canada announced that it had signed long term agreements with the European Union and the UK on trade and defense.

This week China has taken a significant step in becoming the next superpower.  It is hosting a summit with Russia, India, and 20 other world leaders.  Here is some of the information about the summit that every American should know.

This information from the first article I read.  The same information is featured in a dozen other publications.  I doubt it made the top 10 on Fox News.  The text in italics is from the article. 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy is upending the globe.

“The house rules of a few countries should not be imposed on others,” Xi told more than 20 world leaders gathering at a two-day summit orchestrated to play-up China’s global leadership and its close and enduring partnership with Russia, as the two neighbors seek to rebalance global power in their favor at the expense of the US and its allies.

“We should leverage the strength of our mega-sized markets and economic complementarity between member states and improve trade and investment facilitation,” the Chinese leader told his guests during opening remarks.

Without naming the United States directly, Xi vowed to oppose “hegemonism,” “Cold War mentality” and “bullying practices” – phrases often deployed by Beijing to criticize Washington.

As Trump alarms nations with his global trade war, withdrawals from international organizations, slashing of foreign aid and threats on social media, Beijing views the US as undermining the international order it worked to build – and sees an opportunity to ramp its own vision as an alternative.

The new system “would replace the outdated Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic models, take into account the interests of the broadest possible range of countries, be truly balanced, and would not allow attempts by some states to ensure their security at the expense of others,” Putin said.

Many of my Republican friends often say if we had not won WWII, we would all be speaking German.

If this country continues to implement the Trump 2.0 policies, I would say “If you want your children to get ahead in the future world order, tell them to learn Chinese. 

“We have met the enemy and it is us.”