Geopolitics commentator Peter Yang takes a deep dive into America’s chip-war defeat. Washington weaponized the semiconductor stack it built, turning interdependence into containment—and the strategy backfired. Reshoring stalled, allies absorbed the costs, and decoupling isolated the U.S. from markets. China pivoted to survival instead: dominating mature nodes, expanding globally, and building institutions to outlast disruption.

DeepSeek-R1 is shaking Silicon Valley. Founder Liang Wenfeng: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead.”

China’s technological progress is far more vulnerable to a more “friendly” US. rather than a more “hostile” one.

A modern digital cold war & clash of civilizations.

The sentiment that the West is an unreliable trade partner in now common in Russia. In an interview with GUANCHA.CN, Russian consumer market expert Dmitry Reva noted that Western corps left the Russian market after the war broke out, leaving a vacuum. Following this, China-Russian trade has enhanced, with prospects for deeper cooperation in agriculture, Far East development, and other fields.

Outpacing the U.S. 6 to 1.