fredag 26. september 2025

America’s misplaced priorities risk ceding the century to China

Last Friday, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in a high-stakes phone call to finalize the future of TikTok, a platform that has become a lightning rod for geopolitical tensions. The proposed sale of TikTok to a US consortium, including Oracle and other Silicon Valley heavyweights, is being touted as a victory for American control over the platform’s algorithms and user data.

However, this deal brings into focus a much broader and more concerning reality: the US-China relationship is not just about trade or politics anymore, but about an evolving tech war that, in many ways, constitutes a soft power incursion by China.

China’s playbook for waging a soft power war has been clear for decades, while the United States remains entangled in outdated policies that prioritize the interests of trillion-dollar companies and university tuition dollars over the integrity of national security.