For the United States, defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War once believed that the United States was a "city on the top of a mountain", and the world should operate under the framework of the United States' rules.

With China's rise, the United States' various means of suppressing us have been ineffective, and Americans have also begun to realize that their previous means seem to be no longer able to knock down China.

1. Economic invincibility

From the economic scale alone, my country still has a considerable gap from the United States, but even so, the United States cannot easily defeat China economically.

The reason is very simple. The US economy seems to be huge, but in fact its main pillars are concentrated on the extremely high added value brought by the financial industry.

The financial industry can indeed bring great wealth appreciation to the country at extremely low costs, but finance is the tertiary industry after all, and does not produce actual commodities.

This means that the United States has great vulnerability to rely on finance to drive domestic economic growth, and this vulnerability is fully exposed in this round of tariff war by the Trump administration.

After imposing nearly astronomical tariffs on Chinese goods, the US government found that it also had no means or channels to fill the market gap caused by the lack of Chinese goods.

The end result is that Trump's tariff agreement on China has been delayed and has been delayed again and again, but the tariffs on various "allies" such as Japan, South Korea and India have continued to rise.

With years of industrialization, our country has become one of the few countries in the world that have a complete industrial chain and can achieve complete independence from raw material processing to product sales.

Even if the United States and European countries are unwilling to admit it, the reality is that the world can no longer leave "Made in China".

2. Public opinion failure

Many people think that public opinion war is not an important thing, and the decisive factor that determines the success or failure of international competition lies in the hard power between countries.

However, this falls into a terrible misunderstanding. Public opinion between countries is not only very important, but can also cause great damage to competing countries at extremely low costs.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union suffered a lot of losses from the United States in public opinion. Even the daughter of the Soviet founder Stalin believed in the United States' democracy and freedom, which abandoned the motherland and fled to the United States.

Even after the end of the Cold War, the United States did not forget to publicize itself as a beacon of humanity and a city on the top of the mountain.

I have to say that the United States's plan is still effective. At the beginning of reform and opening up, many people in our country really believed in this plan.

However, what Americans did not expect was that with the development of the Internet, especially the rapid integration of social media platforms into the lives of ordinary people, the American public opinion war began to fail.

With the help of social media platforms, ordinary people from all over the world share details of their lives here, and many American propaganda are self-defeating.

Taking the "China-US Reconciliation" on a social platform recently as an example, it can be said that it has touched the rumors that everyone in the United States is happy.

Through social platforms, we not only know that the people at the bottom of the United States often have to work three jobs in order to support themselves, but also know that selling blood is a "legal and reasonable" normal for them.

If the United States wants to attack us by "exporting ideas" again, it will obviously not work.

Similarly, the environmental protection equality propaganda in Europe and the United States also seems to be full of leakage under the magnifying glass of modern Internet.

On the contrary, we have always been a country that does practical things, which gives us a natural advantage under the public opinion in the Internet era.

Compared with the environmental protection organizations abroad that are actually making money by shouting environmental protection slogans, we have really added a touch of green to the earth from a factual level through planting trees and afforestation.

At the same time, in terms of equal rights, through poverty alleviation and the promotion of compulsory education, countless people in our country have escaped from the suffering of poverty since the reform and opening up.

Although internationally, we are still not good at using public opinion to refute the dirty water of the West, we are still ahead of the West in terms of practical actions.

As the Internet gradually permeates people's lives, more and more people will see through the hypocritical public opinion propaganda in the West and realize which country is really working for the common destiny of mankind.

3. Military oppression is no longer available

Economic, the United States cannot leave China, and in public opinion, the United States cannot be in an advantageous position over us. The only thing the United States can rely on seems to be the "invincible" US military.

Authentic, if we only look at the global power projection, the United States' influence will still be greater than that of the current PLA.

But can the United States still pose a threat to us through military forces? The answer is no.

For China and the United States, military construction is fundamentally different. The goal of the US military is to allow the United States to gain control and influence over the global situation by expanding overseas garrisons.

The purpose of our military construction is to maintain our own national security, that is, to continuously enhance regional denial capabilities.

This means that our army has terrible combat capabilities that the US military cannot reach in local defense.

No matter how many overseas troops are garrisoned, they cannot directly pose a threat to our homeland security, so it will be empty talk for China.

In the last century, the United States was able to act recklessly in our territorial waters in its powerful navy, and even more so by building the so-called "island chain" to nail our military power to the nearshore.

Now everyone has seen the result that as my country's various crackdown methods continue to escalate, the first island chain has long been useless.

At the same time, the construction of the People's Liberation Army Navy fleet is also very fast, and various new ships are constantly put into use, making our country's maritime defense power different from the past.

In contrast, the bitter fruit of deindustrialization in the United States also acts on the US Navy, which is in sharp contrast to the continuous use of new ships in China in recent years.

If the United States wants to act recklessly in the Taiwan Strait region of my country since the last century, it must think about whether it can go back with all its strength.

For the United States, even if it is only partial military friction, it will have an unimaginable price.

In recent years, even if Sino-US relations are tense, the United States will not dare to directly drive warships to show off its power near our waters as before.

In time, our country's comprehensive military strength will surely surpass the United States, but before that, the US military could no longer pose a substantial security threat to our country.

Conclusion:

For the United States, relying on past experience means to destroy China is obviously an impossible "dream".

The United States is doing its best to curb our development, which is nothing more than a futile effort to maintain its hegemony in the old world.

China is by no means the Soviet Union of the past. For the two countries in the future, the only way out that can best suit both sides' interests is to let go of prejudices and honest cooperation.

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