The struggle between China and the United States, to this point, is inevitably the big scene of great wisdom and courage, but in terms of details, it is inevitably hard!
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In the fight against the Hungarians, Han-Wu-Tai said: “Kai can go to me too!
Nowadays, in the big power game between China and the United States, we may not use the tricks used by the United States, and we often do the opposite. However, some tricks, of course, are "I can go, I can go, and I can use"!
Comrades, have you noticed that on the chessboard of international games recently, China's moves are becoming more and more stable and accurate, with every move directly hitting the opponent's life.
No, just around September 30, 2025, news came out in the market that China Mineral Resources Group had asked domestic buyers to suspend purchases of Australia's BHP Billiton (BHP) iron ore denominated in US dollars, even including cargo already in transit. This means that if the iron ore being shipped by sea is priced in US dollars, China will not want it!
The news came, the global commodity market shake, the Australian government responded quickly, Prime Minister Albany openly expressed "disappointing" and hopes "to resolve as soon as possible". this incident has not yet been officially confirmed, but the reaction of the Australian government, and the strategic intention behind the incident, is worthy of our high attention - in the view of China, this is not a simple business adjustment, but China in the global supply chain restructuring, the internationalization of the RMB, the de-dollarization process, the US "financial hegemony + ally siege" system a precise probe and counter!
Isn't the United States good at wooing allies and coercing other countries to engage in economic decoupling and technological blockade against China? Well, China will do its own thing and give it back: use the market power of our population of 1.4 billion, the world's largest manufacturing base, and the largest iron ore consumer, to force your core allies to "choose sides". Consider it again-should we continue to follow the United States to settle in dollars and be a pawn of U.S. financial hegemony, thereby losing the Chinese market, or should we embrace the RMB and embrace a future deeply bound with China? The United States wants other countries to make multiple choices between China and the United States, and China will give it back its own way. This is a great power struggle that is pointed at the tip of the needle!
Frankly, this trick, we can not simply see as a trade counter-reaction, proudly believing that this is the financial level of "killer-killing heart", is directly hit the gate to the core of the U.S. hegemony system - the dollar pricing power and settlement hegemony!
Old comrades should all remember that Zhan Hao analyzed in previous articles that American hegemony has the following five pillars: military hegemony, technological hegemony, financial and monetary hegemony, cultural hegemony, and public opinion hegemony. Now, several other hegemonies have basically collapsed, leaving only the financial hegemony. Moreover, the financial hegemony of the United States is the foundation of American world hegemony, and the US dollar is the blood of American hegemony. The reason why the United States can maintain global hegemony depends not only on aircraft carriers and F-35, but also on the financial and monetary system in which global commodities are denominated in US dollars, international trade is settled in US dollars, and national reserves are dominated by US dollars. As long as this system does not fail, the United States can harvest global wealth by printing money, and it can use financial means to coerce other countries to submit.
And China's move today is precisely because the game between China and the United States has reached the core of American hegemony. The United States has positioned China as its first or even only strategic opponent in order to fundamentally shake China's development path, block the pace of China's development, and has never stopped shaking China's system. Now, China's counterattack will also be directed at the crux of the United States-the dollar system. We cannot blame China for this. We can only blame the United States itself for sparing no effort in containing and suppressing China!
What is iron ore? It is the "grain" of modern industry, the source of steel, and the lifeblood of infrastructure, automobiles, machinery, and military industry. China, as the world's largest steel producer, imports 72% of the world's iron ore. As the world's largest iron ore exporter, Australia's economic lifeline is highly dependent on exports to China. BHP Billiton is a global mining giant, with 62% of its revenue coming from China. Now, as the executor of the country's will, China Mineral Resources Group clearly requires Australia to "want to sell iron ore? Yes, but settlement must be made in RMB, not in US dollars!"-- The strategic intention behind this is extremely clear: China is using its irreplaceable market demand to force resource exporting countries to abandon the US dollar and accept the RMB.
This is not a negotiation, this is a showdown. You, Australia, either accept RMB pricing and become a "key node" in the process of RMB internationalization and de-dollarization; or, you can watch your iron ore rot in ports and watch iron ore from Brazil, Guinea and India continue to fill the China market-and China has already diversified and improved its import sources through the three-year layout of China Mineral Resources Group, and is fully confident to say "no" to BHP!
This trick, the Australian Prime Minister Albany's handshake, can only publicly say "disappointing", but not dare to say death, can only vaguely hope "swiftly resolved". Why? Because Australia's heart is clear, this game, they do not win. Iron ore is the economic vitality of Australia, 2024 fiscal year export revenue is up to $116 billion, and the fiscal year is expected to drop to $105 billion - this is still in the normal trade situation. If China fully shifted to Brazil, India purchases, the Australian economy will suffer a serious injury. Albania's government after the rise has tried to repair relations with China, canceled some tariffs, but the bone is still not free from U.S. strategy dependence.
Even better, China's move is to "besiege Wei and save Zhao", pointing to the core weakness of the US containment strategy. Recently, the United States is coercing and inducing resource-rich countries such as Brazil and India to try to build a "de-Chinaized" supply chain, especially in the fields of critical minerals, rare earths, and iron ore. China does the opposite, not passive defense, but active attack: on the one hand, it uses the huge Chinese market and RMB settlement system to provide "safe havens" for Brazil, India and other countries, so that they can see the huge benefits of breaking away from the US dollar system and embracing the Chinese market; On the other hand, take Australia, the most loyal ally of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, to "cut the knife" and make an example-even you, Australia, can't bear China's market pressure. Do other swing countries dare to follow the United States?
This trick, why it can play so beautifully, so subtly, is not a coincidence. It is built on the basis of China's comprehensive national power, especially military science and technology power to historic crossover! Because, the U.S. hegemony although there are at least five pillars, but its thickest one must be military hegemony. After all, military hegemony has the "final judgment power", really do not destroy you! However, the present China is not the China of the past, the U.S. in the 1950s on the Korean Peninsula could not beat China, now the U.S. in the Western Pacific and even further away can not beat China!
Comrades-in-arms, you can recall a series of "big moves" made by China in the field of military science and technology in the past year:
- -In September 2024, China test-fired the Dongfeng 31AG intercontinental ballistic missile. This "big power heavy weapon" with unsupported launch, mobile orbit change, and terminal mobility capabilities will allow any target in the United States to be covered by China's nuclear counterattack. The signal it sends is that China has the determination and ability to defend its core interests, and any attempt to force China to submit through military blackmail will face devastating consequences. Moreover, China still told the United States the time of China's launch, but the United States failed to discover where China launched. More importantly, Dongfeng 31AG is just an "old missile" of China!
—— China has successfully tested at least two prototypes of the sixth generation fighter aircraft between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. Although the specific models have not yet been officially announced, multiple analysts have pointed out that its hidden performance, supersonic cruise, artificial intelligence coordinated combat, and aerospace integrated combat capabilities have completely surpassed similar projects that are being developed in the United States. This means that in the most cutting-edge field of determining the future air battle pattern, China has achieved the historic transition from "tracking" to "leading".
- -At the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show, China publicly demonstrated the "Nine Heavens" series of high-altitude and high-speed stealth unmanned reconnaissance/strike platforms for the first time. Its flight altitude, speed, stealth performance, and mission payload have reached the world's top levels and can penetrate the US military's strict air defense system provides precise target guidance for the Dongfeng series of missiles, completely subverts the traditional air combat and missile attack and defense models. Imagine a nine-day drone carrying 200 suicide drones flying to the second island chain of the United States 3,000 kilometers away, and then launching 200 suicide drones back. I would like to ask, if China sent 100 nine-day drones and 20000 suicide drones saturated attacks, how would the United States respond? There was no way to deal with it, so he could only watch helplessly as he was attacked! In the face of such a style of play, where is the hegemony?
——On September 3, 2025, the Day of Victory parade, although there was no large-scale ground equipment demonstration, but through official reports and authoritative media disclosure, China’s new generation of high-speed weapons, smart cluster drones, anti-missile interceptor systems, electromagnetic orbital cannons and other cutting-edge equipment have been batch-set, forming super-strong systematic combat capabilities. This marks that China has built a technical barrier that makes the U.S. military difficult to break in the field of “asymmetric combat”.
--At the 2025 Changchun Air Show, the J-20 fighter jet was statically displayed for the first time and allowed close observation. Its advanced aerodynamic layout, built-in bomb bay, active phased array radar, and integrated avionics system all demonstrated China's fifth-generation aircraft. Maturity and confidence in the field. More importantly, the J-20 has formed large-scale combat effectiveness, and has begun to form an "air combat system" with drones, early warning aircraft, and electronic warfare aircraft, building an unbreakable "regional denial/anti-intervention" shield in the western Pacific. When the magazine was still needed to be covered during the American F22 display, the J-20 fighter that came from behind could already be displayed statically at close range. This shows that the J-20 fighter is no longer advanced and can be displayed! When seeing this situation, does the United States panic? Are you really panicked? Look at a group of American generals with dignified faces during meetings! They know best the current comparison of military strength between China and the United States.
China's military and technological achievements are not used to showcase, but to "toddle".They clearly convey a message to the world, especially to the United States and its allies: today's China, has the absolute military power to defend its own development path, economic interests, financial security.Do you want the United States to use the aircraft carrier battle group in the South China Sea?China has East Wind 21D, East Wind 26, East Wind 17 and other "aircraft carrier killers", there is a J-20, J-16 and Bom 6K composed air Iron Pist, there is a 055 type million tons of large-drived "sea hegemony".Do you want the United States to use the financial hegemony card to China's neck?China has enough to let any military adventurer think back and forth nuclear and strategic deter
It is this "steel bottom" that supports China in the economic and financial battlefield to dare to light the sword, dare to raise the table. When the United States is still using tariff bars, technology blockade, long arms to control these "old times" weapons, China has used the "market + technology + military" new strategy to build a set of "anti-blocking" system that makes the United States not good to handle. Cut the dollar-priced iron ore trade, is just a precise slide in this ambitious strategy.
China's trick is to fight Australia, it hurts the United States. It makes America's carefully-built "allied siege network" start to appear cracks, let the dollar hegemony "commodity settlement" appear loose, and let the world see clearly: following the US chaos, the real Chinese market and real gold and silver may be lost; and embrace China, embrace the RMB, embrace the multi-polar world order, is the wise choice in line with their own interests. It is the so-called "struggle for the rule and the rule and the survival, to compromise the rule and the death", this trick is really in his way, can be said very clever!
In the face of the accelerated evolution of the global situation over the century, we must vigorously promote the common values of all mankind, practice genuine multilateralism, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, and work with all countries to build a community of human destiny.
How can we implement the spirit of President Xi's speech? That is to talk when it's time to talk and fight when it's time to fight. The "seven inches" of American hegemony are never on the deck of the aircraft carrier, but in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the server of the SWIFT system. China's move today is to use irreplaceable market forces to incite the seemingly indestructible cornerstone of financial hegemony. Tit for tat, market for market, rule for rule, strength for strength-this is the highest state of the game between great powers.
This trick, China came out cleverly, out of wisdom, out of the bottom full! the future of the game, will only be more wonderful. talk, the door is open; fight, accompany the end! friends of war, we look forward to, and will witness – belonging to the era of China, is accelerating!