Finding the answer to the giant puzzle called China, amidst the US-China tech hegemony war!

China, our former OEM factory, has now become our customer, earning money.
He even does things that are close to being a 'bastard'.
If you want to overcome the Chinese and make money in China, you must first know the Chinese.
From the fierce confrontation between Xi Jinping and Trump, the unprecedented US technology blockade and the paradoxes behind it, to the unpredictable outcome of the hegemonic war! Unfold the "China Puzzle" now.

Korea needs deep insight into the technology and resource wars between the US and China.
On the one hand, lining up diplomacy is easy, but two-sided diplomacy that gains both legitimacy and practicality requires wisdom and foresight.
In a situation where the peninsula could not achieve absolute power on its own, the fate of the peninsula was determined by the situations of continental and maritime powers, and the peninsula never made its own decisions.
The ability to read the map of continental and maritime powers is a skill.
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With Trump's re-election, the era of "globalization," where the Earth is one family and humanity shares a common destiny, has come to an end, and the era of "geopolitics" where the survival of the fittest has arrived.
In an era where the law of the jungle prevails, fists are the only power and law.
Trump, a former real estate agent, bases his criteria for allies not on the "value of democracy," but on the presence or absence of "money," based on whether there is "transactional interest."
America's allies are embarrassed.
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Since the emergence of the China crisis theory in 2001, China's crisis theory and peak theory have periodically emerged, but China's growth rate has never been lower than the global average or the United States, except for the special circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak.
A 5% GDP growth rate in 2024 would be China's lowest growth rate ever, excluding the COVID-19 period, but it would be the highest among major countries worldwide, excluding India.
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China is the undisputed second-largest economy after the United States in most science, technology, and strategic industries, and the gap continues to narrow.
If China had entered the path of "certain defeat," there would be no reason for the United States to exert all-out pressure on China from the Obama administration to the current Trump administration.
From the perspective of the United States, the US's strengthening of public control and pressure means that China is on the path to becoming a "sure hegemon" rather than a "sure defeat."
It is all evidence.
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The current war between the US and China is an AI war.
With four times as many mobile phone subscribers as the United States, China has surpassed the United States in big data. However, when it comes to processing massive amounts of big data to create AI, semiconductors pose an Achilles' heel. In the AI ​​infrastructure industry, without semiconductors, no amount of big data is worthless.
The reason the United States is trying to internalize overseas semiconductor manufacturing companies even while providing astronomical amounts of subsidies is because in the AI ​​war, advanced semiconductors are strategic military supplies, and subsidies for advanced semiconductors are part of the national defense budget.
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China is a country that proves that imitation breeds innovation.
The Chinese are the ones who know how to criticize someone for copying, but then turn around and create something new that goes beyond what they copied, and hit the original author on the back of the head.
China is a socialist country that is more capitalist than capitalism.
We can never defeat China without a 'correction of perspective' on China.
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The newly launched government must break away from the fixed diplomatic framework of the past and redefine China as a "competitive partner."
This means a multi-layered diplomatic approach that does not simply view China as a partner or a threat, but rather manages it flexibly based on national interests.
Rather than adopting a fixed stance on one side or the other between the US and China, South Korea should employ a flexible diplomatic strategy that adjusts the proportion of US-China cooperation according to the timing and issue.

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