That is certainly an option, and one could argue that the recent push globally against them is the wrap-up (the 'eliminating useful idiots' phase of takeover).
But what do I know.
Chinas options are go full information-economy, go full militarism w/ optional capitalism, financialize their middle class while exporting industry (in which case they lose in the long term, becoming yet another emperial husk hollowed out by global reserve status, like every other empire in the last 300 years).
They could also go for a brief half-generation 'weimerization', and shift into national socialism, basing their currency on labor and industrial output.
Would put a TON of people to work without going to war explicitly.
With america weak as it is, this could even be used as a pivot into the space race or to take over global arms sales. China has the materials and the manpower and the organization to do it.
America only has the materials and manpower. It lacks the organization.
Control of arms manufacture/sales would allow china to provide proxy security guarantees to weakened middle eastern nations, which would greatly enhance chinas access to minerals and oil. (the same tactic the u.s. used with saudi arabia). This pulls double duty by locking-in demand for those very same weapons systems.
China could start by providing weaposn systems to nationalists in south africa. SA will be necessary to control the rest of africa, and the industrial i.e. natural gas/fertilizer/agricultural output (at a time when the u.s. and europe is engaged with the green scam) would be a gargantuan lever in ALL markets, especially nations hesitant to support BRICs.
Meanwhile this very same control would counterbalance russian influence in BRICs, putting china at the forefront of the alliance.
And by simultenously waging color revolution (or destabalization at least) in south america, the chinese could keep the u.s. off balance and distracted from africa. This is especially important because in order for america to challenge the eursian sphere of influence, we have to eintegragte mexico, canada, and the u.s. economically and politically, without which we don't command sufficient control of world resources and shipping needed to hem in china long-term. The u.s. occupation government is then faced with a dilemma, fight a war on two fronts (asouth america and north american integration) or political/military/economic stabilization of africa. If america is short-sighted it solves its problems with a side war that doesn't involve losing to russia et al, and contractors and military weapons producers are happy for a market that will give them any foothold they can get into africa and all its mineral riches. American decision-makers will be split between domestic desires (pumping up war profits and manufacturer stock prices), or achieving long-term economic-opportunity parity with china's growing sphere of influence.
This would be my thinking if I was to advise china on anything.
prototype 0 points 2.5 years ago
"Solution kick jews out kick commies out"
That is certainly an option, and one could argue that the recent push globally against them is the wrap-up (the 'eliminating useful idiots' phase of takeover).
But what do I know.
Chinas options are go full information-economy, go full militarism w/ optional capitalism, financialize their middle class while exporting industry (in which case they lose in the long term, becoming yet another emperial husk hollowed out by global reserve status, like every other empire in the last 300 years).
They could also go for a brief half-generation 'weimerization', and shift into national socialism, basing their currency on labor and industrial output.
Would put a TON of people to work without going to war explicitly.
With america weak as it is, this could even be used as a pivot into the space race or to take over global arms sales. China has the materials and the manpower and the organization to do it.
America only has the materials and manpower. It lacks the organization.
Control of arms manufacture/sales would allow china to provide proxy security guarantees to weakened middle eastern nations, which would greatly enhance chinas access to minerals and oil. (the same tactic the u.s. used with saudi arabia). This pulls double duty by locking-in demand for those very same weapons systems.
China could start by providing weaposn systems to nationalists in south africa. SA will be necessary to control the rest of africa, and the industrial i.e. natural gas/fertilizer/agricultural output (at a time when the u.s. and europe is engaged with the green scam) would be a gargantuan lever in ALL markets, especially nations hesitant to support BRICs.
Meanwhile this very same control would counterbalance russian influence in BRICs, putting china at the forefront of the alliance.
And by simultenously waging color revolution (or destabalization at least) in south america, the chinese could keep the u.s. off balance and distracted from africa. This is especially important because in order for america to challenge the eursian sphere of influence, we have to eintegragte mexico, canada, and the u.s. economically and politically, without which we don't command sufficient control of world resources and shipping needed to hem in china long-term. The u.s. occupation government is then faced with a dilemma, fight a war on two fronts (asouth america and north american integration) or political/military/economic stabilization of africa. If america is short-sighted it solves its problems with a side war that doesn't involve losing to russia et al, and contractors and military weapons producers are happy for a market that will give them any foothold they can get into africa and all its mineral riches. American decision-makers will be split between domestic desires (pumping up war profits and manufacturer stock prices), or achieving long-term economic-opportunity parity with china's growing sphere of influence.
This would be my thinking if I was to advise china on anything.