China's Week, April 17
Science & Technology
Chinas’s 100KW plasma propulsion engine accelerates a plasma electromagnetically into a high-speed particle stream, generating thrust for deep space travel. America’s 7kKW engine does not work.
China’s a 360-degree vision system for ships facing unfavorable conditions like fog and darkness integrates visible-light and far-infrared sensors in an 8-12 camera dual-module system.
China issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to image manipulation, plagiarism, and buying and selling authorship.
Economy & Trade
China’s economy grew 5.4% in first quarter. Did America’s grow at all?
China will lower tariffs when the U.S. removes all tariffs on Chinese imports.
China restricts the 7 medium and heavy REMs vital to the USA: samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium). China does 99% of global heavy REM processing.
China Orders Halts to Boeing Deliveries, sells off existing fleet.
‘Country of origin’ for imported chips now means where they are fabricated. Intel, TI, and AMD, with U.S. fabs must slash prices, absorb margin hits, or surrender market share.
Tech is 90% of China’s exports to the US, 40% of which goes into US manufacturing processes. 70% of China’s agricultural imports from the US can be easily replaced.
Extreme’ US-China decoupling could cost $2.5 trillion, Goldman Sachs warns.
China is forcing the US into bankruptcy before a hot war breaks out, much like the US strategy that defeated the USSR.
“My local cutler charges $9 sharpen a pair of pruners. My Pre-tariffs pruners cost $5.99 from and remained decently sharp for the summer.”
China has escalation dominance in this trade war. Fighting the current war before finding replacements so is a recipe for defeat, at enormous cost.
Society & Environment
39% of all Chinese investment was in clean-energy manufacturing, and 40% of
China’s GDP growth came from clean-energy sectors in 2023.
Diplomacy & Geopolitics
“The United States is scaring some countries and not letting them do business with us. The United States is a paper tiger. Don't trust it. It will be pierced with one poke”. Mao Zedong. 1964.
“Barbarians must expect to wait indefinitely for Chinese calls,” says Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BRICS are constructing a new sacred geography where sovereignty, identity, and culture are not flattened but lifted. The future is not post-political. It is post-liberal.
The Trump administration’s harebrained attempt to reorder the global economic order and bully everyone into submission has been an unambiguous catastrophe. No power on earth can bank on the idea that Trumpism will be contained even after the coming electoral backlash.
The U.S. refused to recognize Beijing for 30 years, firebombed Chinese volunteers and civilians in Korea and China, and threatened nuclear annihilation in 1950. And still—without a flicker of shame—it dares to call China the aggressor?
Defense
The J-20 fighter-bomber entered serial production in 2025 after the first demonstrator flight in January 2011 and was in serial production in four years, vs. America’s 15-year average for the F-22, F-35 and Su-57, allowing China to bridge the gap with the US.
“REMs are key to the next-gen US F-47 fighter, but its viability depends heavily on materials that China produces".
“The Joint Chiefs of Staff have given their approval to the use of plant biological warfare.” Capt. Donald Summers of the Chemical Warfare Service to his boss, Lt. Col. John M. Jeffries, chief of OSS’s R&D.
Small thing. Headline error. The J-20 began serial production in 2015. Love your posts.