During the 18th century, while Russia focused on conquering Eurasia, Britain invented the steam engine and mobilized every means to expand its colonies and secure control over them.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, as Europeans fought over Africa, Americans mastered assembly-line production and ruthlessly expanded into Native American territories.
History is a mirror.
Today, while the United States attempts to meddle in Venezuela and weaken Iran and Cuba, China focuses on winning future technologies, choosing not to follow the old path of Britain and America, but instead pursuing a community with a shared future for humanity.
If, in the next wave of industries—including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and robotics—the United States fails, just as it has failed in competition in solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles, the balance of power will irreversibly shift.
This is how the three major powers have changed their trajectories of power over three centuries.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1873121259959296/
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