After the Second World War, which had swallowed tens of millions of lives, finally came to an end, the vast lands sandwiched between the East and the New World had suffered terrible devastation. The areas of Western Europe once occupied by Germany had been turned into ruins, and the western part of the Soviet Union had similarly suffered heavy losses during the Soviet-German War. Britain, separated from Europe only by the narrow English Channel, was also severely weakened under the attacks of bombers and ballistic missiles.

In contrast to the losses in these elite regions of the world, China in the East, through a series of treaties signed at the end of WWII, leaped to become the country with the largest land area and the largest territorial waters in the world. Beyond merely gaining physical land and sea, China established its own vast sphere of influence through the West Pacific Security Treaty, the China-Southeast Asia Cooperation Organization Treaty, and the Indian Ocean Freedom of Navigation Treaty. This series of treaties ultimately framed the Pacific-Indian Ocean Free Trade Area Treaty, a powerful economic circle described as being strong enough to rival the Bretton Woods system.

This unprecedented expansion made the Americans taking over British influence, and the Soviets seizing Eastern Europe, East Germany, and Greece, all seem overshadowed by comparison.

More importantly, through the Second World War, China established its position as the "standard-bearer of anti-colonialism." To the vast colonial nations of Asia and Africa, China—which supported their right to national liberation and independent statehood with practical actions—was undoubtedly a noble savior. Although the United States and the Soviet Union took anti-fascism as their moral high ground, Germany, which had rampaged in Europe but never managed to run amok in Africa or Asia, was not seen as the greatest enemy by these nations that had gained independence or were striving for it after the war. On the contrary, Britain and France were the primary targets these countries sought to strike.

Among the leaders who once led the largest powers during WWII, Roosevelt passed away before the war ended, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and Chamberlain survived the war but died of illness shortly after its conclusion. As for the interim Prime Minister elected by Britain, Churchill was kicked off the prime ministerial throne immediately after the war's end. The only ones still firmly in power were Chen Ke, Chairman of the Chinese People's Party, and Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Facing these two leaders who possessed supreme power in their respective countries, the pressure on the United States and the Northern European nations was indescribable. Regarding the number of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the Soviet Union proposed that the three countries—the USSR, China, and the US—should serve. The United States, feeling isolated, insisted that the US, China, the USSR, and Britain should serve. Britain, in turn, took a tough stance and demanded that France also be included in the ranks of the permanent members. Both the US and the USSR were full of contempt for France, which had contributed nothing in the mid-to-late stages of the war; they did not believe it was necessary to give France such an important seat. Chen Ke, however, expressed his willingness to accept the proposal of the five permanent members.

Both Britain and the US had witnessed Chen Ke's skill in long-term strategic planning. Allowing three non-socialist countries to appear in the United Nations could not help but make Britain and America deeply question what was really going on. Soon, they discovered that their suspicions had already fallen into Chen Ke's calculations.

Once France learned it had gained China's support, while the attitudes of Britain and the US appeared rather ambiguous, France—which theoretically should have supported the Anglo-Americans—developed a great deal of resentment towards them under China's subtle intelligence operations. Of course, this dissatisfaction had not just appeared now; the centuries-old conflict between France and Britain, as well as the behavior of British and American troops during the recently ended war—who, following traditional European war customs, had extensively looted after charging into French territories that had not yet been ravaged by war—all contributed. The arrogant and overbearing attitude of the Anglo-American garrison in France left the French full of resentment towards them.

By the time Britain and America realized something was wrong and turned to strongly support France's inclusion as a permanent member, the attitude between France and China had already undergone a subtle change.

Under these circumstances, Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech. The United States and the nations of Western Europe immediately expressed their approval. They did not believe they needed to block China and the Soviet Union out of Europe and America, but rather that they needed to block Europe and America out of China and the Soviet Union.

Similar to the situation after World War I, the United States implemented economic support policies for Europe. China also no longer considered the massive debts the Soviet Union had accumulated from the pre-war period through to the end of the war. The two strongest nations in the world, China and the US, provided large-scale aid to their strategic allies almost regardless of the cost.

After establishing the United Nations security mechanism, the "Cold War" between the socialist camp and the capitalist camp immediately commenced.