The competition between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the West has now taken on the form of Liminal Warfare , a systemic conflict in which the future of the global order is at stake. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the Chinese leadership has translated its desire for power into an explicit geostrategic doctrine: global technological dominance , with the stated goal of surpassing the United States and establishing a new Sinocentric world order (the conc

The Beijing-Moscow Axis: Ideological Convergence, Sanctions Evasion, and the Strategic Pursuit of Sovereignty (November 2025 Report)

The Low-Altitude Economy (LAE)  has emerged as a typical representative of new quality productive forces  and a strategic emerging industry for China. It is not merely a new economic sector, but a vital engine  for promoting high-quality economic development and achieving the national strategic goal of technological self-reliance and self-improvement . Analysts define the LAE as a comprehensive economic formation  whose essence is low-altitude flight activity , whose carrier

The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and American President Donald Trump, which took place in Busan on October 30, 2025 , on the sidelines of the APEC summit, marked a turning point in Sino-American relations. The immediate designation of the event by Trump as a "G2"  meeting had a disruptive geopolitical impact, as it validated Beijing's strategic parity , accepting the idea of a global order jointly managed by the two superpowers. The central subject of discussi

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended its role as a mere emerging technology to become the driving force behind a total revolution  that is rewriting the rules of the game on a global scale. China is acutely aware of this, and has openly declared that AI presents a critical historical opportunity to rebuild its innovation system from the ground up  and firmly establish itself as a global science and technology powerhouse . The core of this ambition is the "AI Plus" (or

The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and American President Donald Trump in Busan on October 30, 2025, cannot be reduced to a mere tactical agreement to alleviate tariff pressures. On the contrary, it represents a breaking point, a de facto acknowledgment of Beijing's systemic parity  by Washington, and with it, a potential international legitimization of the Chinese totalitarianism  led by Xi Jinping. Xi's words, claiming that Chinese ambitions and the American "

The rise of the Beidou Satellite Navigation System (BDS)  is not merely a chronicle of Chinese technological success, but the palpable manifestation of a strategic imperative for autarky  imposed by the leadership of Xi Jinping . Starting from the necessity to eliminate a crippling technological vulnerability—reliance on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) controlled by foreign powers—China has forged Beidou into an instrument of Information Sovereignty  ( 信息主权 ) and,

The Formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030): The Inevitable Merger of Security and Development in Xi Jinping's Imperial Mandate The global geopolitical landscape has been unequivocally redefined by the outcomes of the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) , which concluded in Beijing in October 2025. The immediate context is marked by the public release today, October 28, 2025 , of the two documents that constitute the id

The world has entered a phase of profound and structural strategic competition between great powers , where confrontation is no longer limited to the traditional economic or military spheres but is increasingly fought on the ground of technological supremacy and institutional shaping . This new scenario, often described as "targeted decoupling" or "institutional warfare," has triggered a radical transformation in the landscape of global Science and Technology (S&T) governance

China is implementing a systematic and programmatic strategy to build geoeconomic power levers, transforming global dependence into a tool for coercion while simultaneously ensuring self-sufficiency in its critical areas. This holistic strategy, where control over supply chains is a crucial weapon, aims to shape a new world order. Beijing has meticulously gained control over vital supply chains—dominating the markets for strategic sectors like Rare Earth Metals (REM) , Active

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) , held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025, approved the guidelines for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) . This document does not represent a rupture, but the continuity and strategic intensification  of policies initiated with the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) and the long-term vision of Xi Jinping. China is preparing for a "long twilight struggle" against the West,

How US Restrictions Catalyzed Huawei and the CCP's Circumvention Strategy Chinese chip manufacturers are implementing a strategy of ingenious innovation to circumvent American restrictions . In fact, the "microchip war," triggered by US restrictions starting in 2018, did not block the Chinese semiconductor industry but catalyzed its strategic response: innovation by circumvention . This approach is now officially enshrined as a national mission in the Communique of the Fourt

Financial Cold War: China Dumps US Debt and Hoards Gold for Protection

The announcement today, October 20, 2025 , by DeepSeek regarding the open-source  release of its DeepSeek-OCR  model—focused on two-dimensional optical compression—occurs within a geoeconomic scenario  marked by fierce competition in artificial intelligence. However, the news of this technical innovation clashes with a much hotter chapter whose roots go back some time : the serious accusations  leveled by Washington against DeepSeek, suspecting it of supporting Beijing’s mil

The recent publication by the Chinese State Council of the Notice on the Implementation of National Product Standards and Related Policies in Government Procurement   ( 国办发〔2025〕34号 ), effective from January 1, 2026 , represents yet another measure favoring domestic companies and imposing significant limitations on foreign enterprises, thereby distorting the principles of the free market. GettyImages The 20% Price Advantage: The New Non-Tariff Barrier The core provision of t

On October 19, the Chinese national security agencies recently disclosed a major cyberattack case, stating they obtained irrefutable evidence that the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA)  launched a cyberattack and infiltrated China's National Time Service Center (NTSC) . The cyberattack was long-planned, progressive, and systematic. Starting in 2022, the U.S. exploited a vulnerability in the SMS service of a foreign-branded mobile phone to secretly attack and contr

The current phase of global scientific and industrial transformation positions Smart Computing  ( Zhìsuàn , 智算) as the fundamental productive force  and a critical element of China's national security . The explosion in computing demand, particularly driven by generative artificial intelligence, has made technological self-reliance and strength  a top priority. As President Xi Jinping stated , "A nation thrives through scientific advancement; a country grows strong with tech

The recent report by the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) on innovative financing for computing centers, focused on technical capital markets (Private Equity, ABS, REITs),  it is a fundamental strategic declaration  aimed at securing AI supremacy  and digital sovereignty  for China. The accelerated adoption of complex financial instruments, such as the first Public Data Center REITs  (e.g., Southern GDS Data Center REIT, 508060.SH ), repr

The approval of the ISO 14620-5 standard, announced on October 14 , is a high-profile strategic achievement that is the first-ever Chinese international standard in the field of manned spaceflight . Far from being the initial sign, this milestone is the latest in a long series of successes  in regulatory matters, reflecting an escalation in Beijing's strategy to achieve global preeminence and rewrite the rules of global governance. This victory in space precedes the release

I. Executive Summary: The Analog Breakthrough and Sanctions Evasion The innovation presented by the team led by Dr. Sun Zhong , affiliated with the Peking University Artificial Intelligence Research Institute , marks a fundamental turning point in computer architecture. The team successfully developed a scalable, high-precision analog matrix processing chip based on Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM), resolving the century-old "precision bottleneck" that had limited analog