The confrontation between America and China: Who will be the undisputed power of the world in 2050?
The competition between the US and China in various fields is not a new issue and goes back decades, but the peak of this tension happened during the “Donald Trump” era, which included the tariff war.
In addition to the tariff and trade war between China and the United States, as the world’s largest economies, even the fight at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2019 was also extended to the issue of Corona, which many called as the “Corona Cold War”.
This corona cold war became a threat to the point that “Antonio Guterres”, the Secretary General of the United Nations, entered the pit with the aim of reducing the tension and with a sharp and warning tone, without explicitly naming these two countries, stating that the world cannot tolerate such There is no difference, he emphasized: We are on a very dangerous path. Our world cannot bear a future where two great economic powers divide the world; Each with their own commercial and financial regulations and their own artificial intelligence and internet capabilities.
What is America afraid of?
During the recent decades, the United States has always advanced the project of “Sinophobia” in order to build an international consensus on Beijing, using various excuses.
1. Demographic concern
One of America’s concerns is the growing power of China, which will become the world’s top power in the not-so-distant future. China’s transition from one-child policy to two-child and finally to three-child policy has put this country at the top of the world in terms of population. China’s population of 1 billion 400 million people is more than 4 times the population of the United States with a population of about 330 million people.
2. China 2049, the undisputed military power of the world
Many observers believe that from a military point of view, China will become a military power in the world by 2049. According to the “Stockholm International Peace Research Institute” (SIPRI), although Beijing always publishes these data in its official reports, the estimates that Westerners have about China’s financial support for its armed forces are significantly higher than the statistics published by It is the Chinese government.
3. China 2050, the first economic power of the world
During the past decades, the United States was always considered a great economic power, but in the past few years, China’s economy is rapidly approaching the United States.
However, China is still in the second place after the United States, and one of the most common methods of knowing the economic status of a country is to examine the “Gross Domestic Product” or “GDP”. China’s GDP reached $12.24 trillion in 2019, compared to $19.39 trillion in the US.