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So the Pentagon has released its latest report saying China’s “historic” military build-up has made the US “increasingly vulnerable”. Then, defensively, it adds this comment:

“We do not seek to strangle, dominate, or humiliate China.”

That sentence alone tells you a lot. Because if Washington genuinely wasn’t trying to contain China, it wouldn’t need to keep insisting it isn’t. You don’t reassure someone you’re not humiliating them while surrounding them with bases, alliances, sanctions, tech bans and military exercises.

China’s military expansion isn’t some surprise plan for global domination. It’s a late, deliberate response to decades of US military hegemony, right up to China’s doorstep. When the Pentagon says it feels “vulnerable”, what it really means is that its dominance is ending.

The report talks about China’s nuclear, cyber, space and long-range strike capabilities as if they appeared out of nowhere. But China watched NATO expand, watched the US encircle it with alliances, watched missiles placed ever closer and decided it would no longer remain strategically exposed.

That’s not aggression, it is deterrence and rightfully so. The Pentagon goes out of its way to say relations are “stronger than they’ve been in many years” under Donald Trump, while simultaneously warning Congress that the US homeland is now at risk because of China. You can’t have it both ways. Either China is a cooperative partner, or it’s an existential threat. This constant backflipping is about managing domestic appearance and it has nothing to do with reality.

The uncomfortable truth Washington doesn’t want to say out loud is that China doesn’t need to “humiliate” the US. It doesn’t need to dominate it. It only needs to be strong enough so that the US can no longer dictate terms in Asia without consequences.

The age where the US could project power anywhere, anytime, without pushback is fading. China’s rise hasn’t made the world more dangerous, it’s made it more balanced. Because when someone stands up to a bully, things shift and balance, to an empire accustomed to control, feels more like vulnerability.

So when the Pentagon says “we don’t seek to humiliate China”, what it’s really saying is, we’re struggling to accept a world where we no longer can.

What do you think worries Washington more, China’s weapons, or the fact that they now actually have to take China seriously as an equal?
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The U.S. is once again accusing China of “unfair practices” in semiconductors, subsidies, state coordination and market distortion.
Same shit, different smell. 💩

China didn’t wake up one day and decide to dominate chips for fun. It was cut off by export controls, blacklists, equipment bans and talent restrictions. The message from Washington is the same as always: you don’t get access, ever. In relation to China, once that happens, self-sufficiency stops being optional and it seems the U.S. have yet to learn that about China.

Every major semiconductor power built its industry with heavy state backing. The U.S. did it, Japan did it, Korea did it, and Europe is doing it right now under the Chips Act. When China does the same, it’s suddenly a “threat to fair competition”.
Boo-fucking-hoo! Go get some tissues.

This isn’t about fairness, it’s about losing monopoly control over a foundational technology and I am glad that China is standing up to the great U.S. bullies.

The real change here is that China is no longer asking for permission and Washington no longer has power over China’s industrial direction.

The chip war was meant to freeze China in place. Instead, it forced acceleration.

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