The stage was set by the leaders’ Oct. 2025 summit in Korea, which Trump described as a convening of the “G2,” recalling a discarded diplomatic idea that the U.S. and China stand as peers above other countries and groupings like the G7 and G20, and should partner together to govern the world. These strategies, unanswered for far too long, have allowed China to pursue its own economic and technological autonomy while cultivating Western economies’ dependence on China, both of which China is now leveraging to exercise veto power over all of the world’s technological supply chains. The United States can either accept China’s dominion or will have to deprive China of the thing it needs most to fuel its economy and enable its blackmail: access to the world’s most important consumer and capital markets.
Author: Bryan Burack
Published at: 2025-12-22 22:10:00
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