China winning the economic war with USA
Written by: Ned K. on 11 December 2025
Donald Trump's Make America Great Again is largely about trying to keep its spot as the world's biggest imperialist power on the economic front as well as military front.
On the economic front it is being outpaced by its main rival China.
The Times newspaper reports that China's current trade surplus is now $ Aust 1.6 trillion in physical goods alone.
Despite the tariffs imposed by the USA against China, China's exports have actually increased over the world as a whole.
Car exports from China to Europe, South America and Africa have increased compensating for the reduction of exports of cars from China to the USA.
French President Macron said that the significant increase in goods from China into Europe will have an impact on the value of the Euro.
In the year ending November 2025, China's exports increased by 5.9% while imports of goods (which would include Australia's iron ore) increased by 1.9%.
Sales to the European Union rose by 14.1 in the month of November 2025 alone.
To compensate for its decline relative to China on the economic front, the USA is increasing its military buildup against China as it knows that if the USA loses control of Taiwan, not only will it be a big military blow, but it will further increase the gap between China and the USA as an economic imperialist power.
This is the economic context in which we see the Albanese Government kowtow to USA demands to extend and deepen Australia as a military base for US imperialism. At the same time, the US government demands another $1.5 billion from Australian taxpayers towards production of more nuclear submarines made in the USA.
To top it off, the US government demands that the HMAS Stirling Naval Base in WA be ready to have US nuclear powered and armed submarines rotated and serviced there in 2027.
The Albanese Government is leading Australia into the firing line when an increasingly desperate declining US power goes to war with China.
The way out of this mess is for a broad mass movement to demand and fight for an independent Australia with removal of all foreign military forces and bases from Australia a first step. If the USA and China are at war, why should Australia be caught up in it?
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