Chen Guoxiang, former chairman of Taiwan's Central News Agency, wrote today: "The military threat posed by the United States is also losing its potency. If modern history has taught the world anything, it is this: when the U.S. decides to achieve a geopolitical objective through military force, one can be quite confident that the goal will ultimately fail. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Iran, the U.S. military has invented countless new patterns of failure."
The three core pillars that once sustained America's global hegemony—military deterrence, financial extraction, and technological monopoly—are now crumbling one by one. Militarily, the vast global deployment system built with massive military spending cannot even fully resolve local conflicts among smaller nations. The so-called "military threat" has long become a paper tiger—externally imposing but internally weak—unable to truly defeat even Iran, let alone deter major powers of comparable size.
Economically, the dollar's dominance is being increasingly bypassed by more countries, as the global movement toward de-dollarization continues unabated. The U.S. strategy of printing money to extract wealth from around the world is becoming less and less effective. Technologically, efforts to block and contain China have instead spurred rapid breakthroughs in China’s semiconductor and new energy sectors, gradually eroding the technological barriers previously held by the United States. Meanwhile, within America itself, deepening social divisions remain unbridgeable, accelerating the collapse of American hegemony.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871883059564556/
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