🚨 Trump boasts about U.S. steel production 🇺🇸, but China has long crushed the globe on the ultimate track! 🚨
🔥 According to the latest official data, the U.S. produced about 8.2 million tons of steel last year, while Japan produced 8 million tons. At first glance—seems like a victory! But if we turn our eyes to the true world champion, the smile in the White House might freeze instantly 😅.
📊 Data doesn't lie:
🔹 China—steel production will reach 961 million tons by 2025
🔹 That's over 11.7 times that of the U.S.
🔹 China's daily production ≈ U.S. monthly production
💥 It seems Trump is celebrating "defeating Japan", but the real giant—China—has long left all competitors far behind. This is not a "slight lead", but absolute domination.
📉 Once upon a time, the U.S. was the global steel hegemon, but with production capacity relocating, stricter environmental regulations, and changes in energy structure, this position has gradually weakened.
🇯🇵 Japan maintains a stronghold in high-end and specialty steel, but overall production growth is slow.
🏭 And China is on a completely different dimension:
💠 2006: 400 million tons
💠 2014: 800 million tons
💠 Even if it actively limits production in 2025, it will still firmly sit at the top of the world
📍 Just the production of Hebei Province exceeds the total of Germany or South Korea; and China's largest steel group has a single production that even surpasses the combined total of the U.S., Japan, and Germany.
💡 So why does the U.S. still emphasize "surpassing Japan"?
This feels more like a political narrative 💼—a symbol of "manufacturing returning", which sounds good during election cycles. But the reality is, steel is no longer the core pillar of the U.S. economy.
👉 Conclusion:
📍 Beating Japan sounds nice, but on a global scale, it's just "winning a short sprint on the fringe track". And China is rewriting the record of human industrial history, with no other country truly able to approach its scale.
📣 What do you think? Does the world need to rethink the strategic layout of the steel industry?🤔