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By comparing the fundamental transformations China is imposing on the global supply chains with the incapacity of the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese expansion (for example, most steel production today is in Chinese soil), Chan is provoked to coin the term “Chinese century”: just another name for the century we are already in, a century that emerged as the inevitable outcome of the Western nations’ energy mishandling in their almost exclusive attention to irrelevant or ridiculous matters. While the West remains internally fractured (“polarization”) and eagerly arguing if a man can or cannot be a woman, China fabricates steel and chips and expands its gigantic informational infrastructure.