Coiled Dragon

Since the 1950s, China has used the gifting of soccer stadiums throughout the world (known as stadium diplomacy) as a means of propaganda and influence peddling. This is especially the case on the continent of Africa. The practice has largely been overlooked as a curiosity until recently when it was linked to the People's Republic of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Chinese Soccer Stadium Diplomacy is used to export the game's virtue while creating debt traps and concessions where strongarmed leaders have photo ops with soccer stars all the while being forced to give up their country's resources, sovereignty, and deep-water ports. Sold as 'economic aid,' China's BRI bridge has larger economic and military implications throughout the world as the PRC strives to supplant the United States in a new bipolarity wherein Beijing sits at the center of the seat of global economic and military power through the establishment of a global network of economic, political, and military enslaved vassal states. Tactically, this strategy includes intellectual property theft of technology ranging from green to military, not only to continue to close the technology gap between themselves and the United States but to also become the de facto international technology standard and economic center of the world wherein global currencies and economies are subservient to the Yuan and are forced to remove themselves from the American dollar standard. Factors such as the failed "One-Child Policy" will produce an unprecedented 25% more males in the country versus females by 2050. The discrepancy is the biggest challenge to 75 years of iron-fisted Communist rule as internal strife created by such an unnatural ratio will have a societal impact across multiple societal spectrums ranging from sex workers to violence. To counter this threat and ensure the political survival of the Chinese Communist Party and its single-party system of government, China is engaged in a military build-up and strategy designed to reverse engineer the American World War Two victory in the Pacific all the while preparing for an upcoming war with America. At the same time, China is "exporting" military-aged Chinese males worldwide while also building up its military capability to not only take over territory it believes inherently theirs, like Taiwan, but to also bleed off a large segment of its male population through a future war possibly starting as soon as 2025. A key economic and military piece in China's quest for global dominance is Artificial Intelligence. In 2024, China aggressively "scrubbed" the Internet to prepare itself for the "training" of its rival AI technology. The use of mined behavioral data from social media to train AI is an instrumental component in advancing China's AI-driven propaganda including micro-propaganda targeting specific demographics in focused regions including the potential targeting of cities. The move has forced the U.S. and the West into a race against China and her allies in what promises to redefine 21st-century economics and the global power structure.