Zhu Zhiqun: Is the competition between China and the United States a ＂civilized confl

Trial Time

KIRON Skinner, director of Policy Planning of the United States, recently described Sino -US competition into a conflict between two different civilizations in a recent interview in Washington, causing an uproar.Skinner's civilization conflict reflects the current U.S. policies of China and some negative and negative characteristics in domestic politics in the United States.

First of all, the rise of China has made the global power structure and the international structure developing in the direction of the United States. Some people in the United States have become anxious, and even their fear and losing confidence.With the United States and Canada's arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou as the turning point, the Sino -US conflict and competition added a new content: high -tech.Technology competition is about future competition.According to the prediction of artificial intelligence book by Li Kaifu, the founder of the Innovation Workshop, China and the United States in the future are equivalent to high -tech competition. In some aspects, such as artificial intelligence, China will still take advantage of it.

The goal of US foreign policy is to maintain its global dominant position, and China's development has brought competition and challenges.Competition is not a bad thing for both sides. Only when competition pressure will improve faster, and the United States will not be so easily surpassed.The United States can completely take the competition from China as a motivation for economic and science and technology, and to compete with opponents with Smart Competition to obtain a win -win situation.However, the United States has not done this. Now, in addition to suppressing Huawei, discrediting the Belt and Road Initiative, pressureing China to concessions to achieve a trade agreement, and harassing China in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, there is no constructive eye policy to China.

The United States is still struggling to accept the fact that China's rise.China and the United States have a history of long -term cooperation and mutual benefit. Although the structural contradictions between the two countries will be more prominent with the rise of China, this is not a conflict between the Eastern and Western civilization.Sino -US culture has also learned and learned from each other.Skinner's so -called civilization disputes are nonsense, highlighting the current US government's current government's rise and retreat.

Secondly, why is there a similar argument now?This is related to the domestic political environment of the United States.

Skinner said that a large part of her job was to listen to the president's speech and understand what he meant.Trump will propose his speculation and instinctual thoughts on the problem, and the task of her and the Secretary of State Pompeo is to turn these speculations and ideas into hypothetical, transforming policies, and finally Trumpism.Listening to her meaning, her job is not easy, mainly because she needs to figure out accurately.

For a long time, the remarks of some anti -China members and conservative think tank scholars in the U.S. Congress have been coquettible with consciousness, and the US administrative authorities are relatively pragmatic.But now the U.S. government has rarely heard rational voices from top to bottom.Trump himself has repeatedly accused China of stealing American technology, stealing American work, and rape the US economy.Recently, from Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Pompeo, to Middot; Thunder; Lei, Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau, to Skinner, it was sensational that the theory involved in China was one after another.

These are typical cases of upward and down.In their opinion, China's debt trap in making other countries has become the world's second largest economy by stealing American technology, and Chinese students in the United States and Chinese students are suspected of being Chinese spy.It turned out that dirty water was splashed on the head of the Chinese government, and even Chinese and Chinese civilizations are now stigmatized.

It is nothing new in the United States to imagine enemies, but Trump has such a high -profile high -profile high -profile threat, ugly China, and intentional manufacturing opposition in the United States. It is unprecedented.It is believed that Sino -US relations are currently the lowest since President of Nixon's visit to China.

Fortunately, the current Sino -US relations are still in quantitative but not mass. The basic characteristics of competition and cooperation and mutual dependence have not changed.People do not have to ignore the fallacy of the conflict between the Chinese and American civilizations of Skinson.She wants to re -provoke a debate on civilized conflict on Samuel Huntington, and she wants to be the second in George F. Kennan in the history of American diplomacy, and it is also a wonderful imagination of time and space.Her argument also contains racial prejudice, which is seriously inconsistent with her senior officials and African -American identities. Many people in the United States have already refuted her.

The author is a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Barker, Singaporean University East Asia, a senior visiting researcher