By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | April 25, 2025
“When the empire accuses others of starting a fire, it’s usually because they already lit the match.”
This year’s G20 summit in Washington was less a diplomatic gathering than an economic tribunal — and China stood firmly in the defendant’s dock, refusing to kneel. As reported in the South China Morning Post, top Chinese officials condemned the West’s weaponization of tariffs, supply chains, and trade routes. They accused the U.S. of triggering an “economic war of attrition” aimed at derailing China’s rise. But Beijing wasn’t on the defensive. It calmly pointed out that the emperor has no clothes — and no credibility left.
The Real Trade War: Empire vs. Multipolarity
By now we should all know: what the U.S. calls “free trade” has always been code for one-way looting — enforced by the IMF, policed by sanctions, and sanctified by the dollar’s global supremacy. But with China rising as a sovereign economic force — one that invests in infrastructure, not invasions — the U.S. has shifted from liberal hypocrisy to straight-up economic aggression. Washington no longer believes in markets — it believes in monopoly. The trade war isn’t about tariffs. It’s about punishing any country that refuses to bow to the dollar, the Digerati, and the Empire’s technofascist supply chain.
In the G20 standoff, Chinese representatives made it plain: the United States is “cooking the books” of the world economy with coercion, blackmail, and sanctions masquerading as policy. Their strategy? Sabotage Belt and Road. Block semiconductors. Isolate China from BRICS+. But this isn’t 1999 — the world isn’t buying it anymore.
From Globalization to Economic War
We’re watching the slow death of neoliberal globalization. The dollar’s role as world kingpin is cracking. The IMF’s prescriptions no longer land with the same violence. The WTO is dead in everything but name. What’s replacing it is not a harmonious new order — it’s a battlefield between imperial decay and multipolar insurgency. The U.S. is throwing tantrums through tariffs, export bans, and sanctions. But China is meeting this economic war not with panic, but with planning.
China’s economy is not collapsing — it’s recalibrating. It’s turning inward to shore up domestic consumption and outward to deepen ties with the Global South. It’s building new institutions — BRICS+, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Belt and Road Initiative — that sidestep Western financial hegemony entirely. And while Washington begs the Global South to “decouple” from China, nations are doubling down on trade with Beijing, because China brings roads, ports, and power plants — not drones, coups, and debt traps.
Technosocialism vs. Technofascism
The G20 confrontation is not just economic — it’s ideological. The West represents a dying model: technofascism, in which digital monopolies, surveillance states, and financial warlords rule through chaos and coercion. China, on the other hand, represents a model the West fears: not capitalism, but socialism with technological sovereignty. It is building, however unevenly, what we might call a technosocialist state — one that combines high-tech development with centralized economic planning, poverty eradication, and infrastructure investment.
While Washington sinks billions into surveillance capitalism and military boondoggles, China has lifted over 800 million people out of poverty — a feat that no capitalist regime has ever achieved. The contradiction is clear: the West’s freedom is the freedom to starve, to be surveilled, and to serve debt. China’s model, for all its flaws and contradictions, offers stability, sovereignty, and the ability to plan for the future beyond quarterly profit margins.
The Empire Can’t Compete — Only Coerce
At the G20, U.S. officials offered no vision for the world — only threats. Their only pitch to Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia was “Don’t trust China.” But the Global South isn’t buying it. They remember who enslaved them. Who looted them. Who dropped bombs and installed dictators and flooded their markets with junk food and IMF handcuffs.
China isn’t perfect. But it isn’t imperial. It isn’t invading. It isn’t extracting without building. And that’s why it’s winning.
The World Is Turning
The trade war won’t end in a treaty. It will end in transformation. As the West clings to its dying order, the Global South is building something new — and China is at its core. What happened at the G20 was not just diplomatic theater. It was a tectonic shift, the thunder before the storm. The era of unipolarity is over. The empire is panicking. And history is no longer written in Washington.
Weaponized Information stands with the peoples of the Global South and with China in its sovereign right to chart a development path free of imperialist interference. Our side is not the empire. It’s the future.
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