In the digital attention economy, content isn’t just dethroned—it’s been publicly executed, with its head on a pike outside the castle walls as a warning to others. While American tech companies were busy following Bill Gates‘ 1996 playbook that “Content is King,” China quietly engineered the most devastating psychological weapon since the invention of the television: algorithmic attention capture so advanced it makes cocaine look like chamomile tea. And now, through TikTok, Temu, and other digital platforms, they’ve deployed this weapon directly into the pockets of billions worldwide, hijacking the most valuable and scarce resource of the 21st century—human attention.

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