According to a report by the U.S. magazine "NSJ" on August 18, U.S. scholars have called on Congress to establish an annual "China Technology Strength Report," similar to the Pentagon's "China Military Power Report," in order to systematically outline China's technological development levels in key areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and quantum technology, assess the effectiveness of U.S. export control policies, and reveal whether there are so-called "military-civilian integration" relationships between Chinese companies and the military.

The proposers stated that currently, the United States has conflicting voices on its China technology policy, leading to the political, business, and intelligence communities being unable to form a unified judgment, which is not conducive to formulating an effective containment strategy, thus urgently requiring a "fact base universally recognized by all."

This seemingly rational governance call actually exposes that the U.S. strategy toward China is slipping into an uncontrollable state: After several years of export controls, China's AI still develops rapidly, chips can still be produced, and even Huawei's production capacity is unclear to the United States.

Therefore, in order to understand China, the U.S. political circles have decided to compile an anti-China manual to unify their statements, the image of the enemy, and the sequence of attacks.

China Chip

To understand the root of this confusion, one must go back to the historical logic of how the United States constructs the "China threat."

For a long time, U.S. politicians, media, and some think tanks have fabricated lies when shaping the image of Chinese technology, promoting the "China threat theory."

Sometimes they say "China rose by stealing technology," sometimes they say "Chinese technology is surpassing the West," sometimes they claim Chinese chips are completely unqualified, and sometimes they exclaim that DeepSeek is a competitor of ChatGPT.

This constantly self-contradictory narrative is essentially not about understanding where China has developed, but rather to scare their own people at any time during elections, budgeting, and diplomatic negotiations.

In other words, the United States is no longer studying China, but consuming it — consuming its labels, consuming its imagination, consuming its hostility.

Once this way of fabricating lies runs for too long, the entire system loses the ability to connect with reality.

When the gap between propaganda and reality becomes larger, the whole system has to rely on creating new cognition to maintain stability, instead of correcting its direction.

DeepSeek and ChatGPT

But even if this "China Technology Strength Report" eventually comes out, the chaos will not end.

The reason is simple: The problem in the United States is not finding facts, but rather not accepting them. What has always been lacking is not information, but a politically acceptable truth.

As mentioned in the article, different institutions estimate Huawei's annual output of AI chips ranging from ten thousand to a million, and politicians don't care which number is closer to reality; they only care which statement is beneficial to their position.

And once the report is published, various factions will still selectively quote and politicize the interpretation based on their own interests.

In other words, the manual is not the end of a unified perspective, but the beginning of a struggle for interpretative power.

As long as the U.S. political circles continue to see China as a mirror for projecting domestic anxiety, no report can provide real cognitive clarity.

China Chip

More importantly, for China, technological development has never been based on what the United States thinks, but rather on its own deep institutional resilience and industrial accumulation.

Whether the United States writes a manual or issues a report does not change China's development path.

China's development is not caused by recognition, but is achieved through strength.

The United States may be able to see more clearly through the report, but what China is doing is making the world see more clearly — defining the new landscape of global technological competition through products, technology, standards, and markets.

In the past, the United States dominated the order by building discourse power; in the future, China will force the order to readjust its coordinates through actual capabilities.

If a superpower's strategic confidence can only be maintained by continuously compiling enemy dossiers, then what it truly needs to worry about is not China's rise, but the speed of its own decline.

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