Posted on 12/24/2025 10:04:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There continues to be a debate among global geopolitical analysts regarding whether the United States and China are engaged in a Cold War or a competition for global dominance.
The answer is irrelevant.
By anyone's observation, China seeks to dominate the 21st century, and they will do so by "any means necessary."
In the process, they will use their military might to create a sphere of influence that is designed to cow nations that range from Japan to Australia to India.
Their invasion of Taiwan is almost a foregone conclusion among many military observers, who believe it is not a question of if but when.
But "when or if" China launches its amphibious assault, it will have determined that the United States is not willing to risk its armed forces to defend an island that produces the majority of the world's computer chips, especially the most advanced ones.
China's eventual decision to deploy its military throughout the Pacific Rim will likely be preceded by confidence in its ability to harness extraordinary advances in AI resulting from its access to unlimited, clean, inexpensive electricity available from fusion power.
It is an emerging technology currently the beneficiary of what is believed to be untold billions of Chinese yuan of investment. One executive at Brookhaven National Laboratory told me earlier this year:
"We have no idea how much they are truly spending because of the secrecy surrounding their efforts but we get the sense 'whatever it takes' to achieve a breakthrough in fusion."
The strategic linkage is clear and without question.
Consider the facts: AI has the means to alter the course of a country's history.
But to harness its full potential requires incredible amounts of energy. Create that energy, and AI becomes a 21st-century strategic weapon.
For far too long the United States failed to place its scientific and industrial might behind what might be called a 21st-century Manhattan Project, recalling the days of World War II when we won the race to create the atomic bomb.
That indifference has profoundly changed during the last quarter of 2025. The White House recently created an Office of Fusion within the Department of Energy, significantly elevating focus and urgency on this technology. Equally important is the announcement that President Donald J. Trump is getting into the fusion power business through a $6 billion merger between his social media company and the fusion research company TAE Technologies.
If there is any message that needs to be heard by China, it is that Trump recognizes that the winner of the fusion race will secure its nation's future and dictate whether democracy and freedom will flourish or the misery of communism will fall upon tens of millions of people.
History may well view that out of all his accomplishments, the president's investment in fusion was the one upon which the fate of nations was determined.
Wow!
Why bother to invade Taiwan? They use that threat so that Taiwan buys lots of our sophisticated weapons and then the spies they have on Taiwan pass on that information.
We’ll figure it out first, and then they’ll steal it from us. But not before irradiating a chunk of their own country. Commies and nuclear stuff, just sayin’.
CC
that 3-Gorges dam can’t collapse soon enough. When that day comes, I will say- “that is a shame.” Then I will continue to eat my sandwich.
Kinda sounds like China is of the mindset that whatever it is, fusion power, germs, AI, the space race... there’s going to be a global showdown leaving one side or the other a smoking ruin. That’s the path they have chosen. Like Nazis but with soy sauce and a side of spring rolls.
This confusion of power and profit is very dangerous. It is ethically untenable. The president and his family should immediately divest themselves of their interest in this revocable trust.
Efficient cold fusion sounds like something Elon Musk would invent in his spare time.
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Author threw AI in for good measure.
Winning the nuclear fusion race like being the first to jump into the volcano.
Technology can be copied, legally or illegally, just as the A-bomb was; so any “win” will be temporary.
The Dept of Energy has on its website..
Fusion can potentially provide a safe, abundant, zero-carbon-emitting source of reliable primary energy. To reach the point where fusion can reliably produce electricity and other forms of energy for commercial, industrial, and residential use, scientists and engineers must tackle a number of remaining scientific and technological challenges.
Just hopium..and fake enthusiasm for an unproven technology - designed to drain the public till, and to encourage "investment."
One thing that could hamper those ambitions would be to not educate 300,000 Chicom spies at our own universities.
If you put all your effort into those damned Tokamaks you are gonna lose. Those devices were designed by the USSR as a red herring for the West.
Bloody things cannot work.
Just brute force a pinch and get on with it, fer Gawd’s sake.
What do you think about the Avalanche Orbitron?
The issue of concern is what the prime nation DOES with their primacy. China (much like Islam) would subjugate all others. What would WE do?
China today is a little more complicated than Islam, which traditionally requires subjugation, and cannot stop until the world surrenders to Allah.
In China we have in theory a party that calls itself âÂÂcommunistâÂÂ, but in practice, acts like the previous Dynastic Empires of China â allowing capitalism as long as the empire ( in this case, the party ) is always in control.
Other than the Mongols who briefly ruled China in the 13th century, most emperors were not interested in colonization, they were more interested in KEEPING territory and at most, requiring other surrounding empires ( Vietnam for example) to pay tribute. Otherwise, unlike Islam, it is not interested in conquering the world.
Hence, the desire to take over Taiwan. The thinking has always been â the island has always been ChinaâÂÂs and we canâÂÂt allow it to leave the âÂÂEmpireâÂÂ.
There won’t be a single winner in the fusion race.
The Germans will have a winner as will the US & China.
The technology will spread.
Just hopium..and fake enthusiasm for an unproven technology - designed to drain the public till, and to encourage “investment.”
Microsoft has a contract with a fusion provider in washington state to provide fusion energy in 2028.
Another fusion provider is contracted to provide fusion energy for Virginia Dominion Power company in 2030.
Ground breaking for both projects has already begun.
There has to be a high degree of confidence for this work to proceed.
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