The 66-Year Road to Virtual Hegemony: From Oceanic Empire to Digital Dominion Item

This article, written from an unconventional yet analytical perspective, begins with the U.S. government's 2024 move to legalize stablecoins, and traces a historical trajectory from post-WWII maritime dominance to today’s emergent digital supremacy. It suggests that behind U.S.-China tensions, Taiwan’s strategic pivot, and AI’s widespread integration lies a deliberate—and possibly inevitable—global shift in power architecture. The U.S.’s longstanding technological infrastructure, from submarine cables to Starlink, API systems to AI engines, is becoming the foundation of a new kind of digital empire. In this invisible revolution, the balance of global order is being rewritten—quietly, but irreversibly.