China Doesn’t Need to Believe It’s Superior—It Knows It Is
China’s elite worldview isn’t built on crude racial hierarchy like 20th-century Europe. It’s older, subtler, and in many ways more dangerous. It doesn’t scream superiority. It assumes it.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
China’s elite worldview isn’t built on crude racial hierarchy like 20th-century Europe. It’s older, subtler, and in many ways more dangerous. It doesn’t scream superiority. It assumes it.
Modern war has acquired an odd new feature. It now comes with graphics, dramatic music, and a nightly highlight reel. Precision bombs streak across the screen. Drones glide in cinematic slow motion. Social media fills with grainy infrared footage of things exploding in the desert while commentators nod gravely and say phrases like “escalation dynamics” and “rules-based order.”
“That filthy neck that barged in on its own — I’ve got no choice but to cut it off without a moment’s hesitation. Are you prepared for that?” – Consul General Xue Jian of the Chinese Consulate General in Osaka, Japan, 9 November
A side benefit of the Operation Epic Fury is testing the war materiel of the Russian and Red Chinese military. With little exception, they are failing again as they did in the extraction of Maduro from Venezuela
Let’s retire the fairy tales.
The U.S. dollar is not backed by gold. It’s not backed by “faith.” It’s not backed by vibes. It’s backed by power — specifically the kind of power that sails in carrier strike groups, negotiates trade deals, controls sea lanes, writes sanctions law, insures shipping, and can ruin your economy before your stock market even opens.
For China, renewables represent the intersection of green technology development, 15-minute cities, and comprehensive social controls glued together by local police bureaus and lubricated by money.
The wars of the future—and increasingly, the wars of the present—will not announce themselves with bombs and bullets. They will arrive as confusion, contradiction, outrage, and exhaustion. You won’t know when they start. You won’t know who started them. You won’t even agree with your neighbors on whether they’re happening at all.
China has badly outmaneuvered us on multiple fronts (economic, political, military, social, etc.). Unfortunately, this fact remains true despite multiple warnings over a decade.
The most dangerous futures rarely arrive with explosions. They arrive with paperwork, emergency meetings, and soothing language about “stability.” The worst-case scenario facing the United States is not sudden collapse or foreign invasion. It is something far more corrosive: a loss of sovereignty by process, at the exact moment the world becomes less forgiving, more competitive, and openly hostile to American advantage.
History has a sense of humor, and it’s rarely kind. As the United States barrels headlong into a Fourth Turning crisis—complete with generational rage, institutional distrust, ritualized protest, economic anxiety, and ideological self-harm—China isn’t protesting anything. It’s watching. Quietly. Patiently. With a spreadsheet.
On September 3, 2025, at the infamous Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military parade, Xi Jinping and Putin were caught on a mic talking about extending lifespan to 150 years through continuous organ transplants while walking up the Tiananmen rostrum.
The realization of US dependency on China for critical supply chains has been slow in coming. And US free trade policies with China over the last 50+ years have made the US vulnerable to the interruption of supply chains
By arresting Maduro for crimes far greater than paying off a hooker (excuse me, porn actress) Trump cost Russia and Red China dearly.
The United States has a long history of invading other nations and stealing their resources. The attack on Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs, and everything to do with oil… so that rich elitists in the U.S. can get richer and deny those resources to peer-level rivals.
The Ukraine corruption rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper without a shred of accountability for any of the perps – particularly the Americans who were hip-deep in the corruption from the beginning.
China has restrictive laws affecting migrants and immigrants that are administered and enforced by multiple bureaucracies.
While Uncle Sam was busy hunting down AK-wielding Toyota pickup convoys, Beijing was thinking long game. China didn’t care about al-Qaeda or ISIS. They cared about something bigger: power, influence, and global dominance.
A cruel 8-year-long anti-Japanese war was fought by the Nationalist Party led by Chiang, while Mao and his communist army watched on the side, with a dark scheme being brewed.
Communist China was one of the few nations to side with Iran by publicly condemning strikes on Iranian nuclear capabilities and military targets as a violation of Iran’s sovereignty
Bluster, denials, demands, and downright squealing appear to dominate the communist Chinese media and diplomatic response to the reciprocal tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.