As the most important bilateral relations in the world, Sino -US relations have been working hard over the years.After US President Trump came to power, the United States launched a Sino -US trade war.The trade war between the two largest economies has covered a huge shadow on the world economy.After hard negotiations, the first phase of the agreement was finally reached, but the 2019 coronary virus disease appeared.At this time, the cooperation of two major powers is most needed, but they are in a profound conflict.
Although China and Trump conducted a friendly telephone conversation on the cope and cooperation of the crown disease epidemic, Trump also promised to personally supervise the consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, but in realityIt can be carried out, and the Sino -US relations that people have seen have been gone forever.
The cooperation between the two countries is the mainstream, the conflict is non -mainstream, and it can be resolved.Before the trade war, this was almost the consensus of the China -US elite circle, so there would be the concept of the concept of China, the United States (US) and marriage (China).These concepts are nothing more than trying to explain that the two countries are dependent on each other, and conflicts have become impossible, because the cost of conflict is too high.However, this is not the case.Everyone knows that the cost of conflict is high. The trade war between the two countries will be a huge harm to anyone, but the trade war does happen.
The spread of coronary virus has made cooperation between the two countries more urgent.The cooperation between the two countries has both objective needs and the interests of the people of the two countries.Because the epidemic began to outbreak in Wuhan, in the early days of China needed cooperation in the United States.The United States also promised to cooperate, but many of the promises in the United States have not been implemented.When China's epidemic was controlled, and when the United States was popular, people felt that the United States needed more help from China.
Indeed, the United States needs China to supply medical supplies.Not only that, China's key information (including research on the virus itself, virus transmission methods, virus big data, etc.) and anti -epidemic experience.At the experience level, scientists in the two countries do cooperate in various aspects, but these objective needs have not revealed the cooperation between the two countries.People did not feel the atmosphere of cooperation between the two countries, but they smelled a strong conflict.
Why does Sino -US cooperation become impossible
Why did it become like this?Because whether it is trade or coronary virus, the increasingly worse political atmosphere between the two countries has disappeared in cooperation that could have occurred.
Since the outbreak of the coronal virus, China and the United States have been making increasingly fierce contests in two fields. One is the crown name of the crown disease, and the other is the media war.
The first is the dispute between the virus name.In the early days, there was no uniform name for the new virus, but after the World Health Organization had a unified name, countries should be called by the WTO standards, but American politicians did not do so.On March 16, Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, had accused some politicians in the United States of Politicon in a call with US Secretary of State Pompeo.
Yang Jiechi said: Since the epidemic occurs, China has always promptly reported the situation to the world's health organizations and the world, including the United States, to share information, carry out international cooperation, and provide some countries to provide power to the world's health organizations and the United States.Donation and support.The U.S. State Department stated that Pompeo said on the phone that Beijing officials were dissatisfied with the responsibility of the coronary virus to the United States.He emphasized that it is not time to spread false information and strange rumors, and said that all countries should unite to face common threats.
On March 12, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked on Twitter, when did the zero patients in the United States appear?How many people are infected?Immediately afterwards, the spokesman's bold assumption may be that the U.S. military brought the epidemic to Wuhan, and he continued to ask the United States to be transparent!To disclose the data!The United States owes us an explanation!The next day, the US State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States to condemn conspiracy theory.
Some people in the United States, including politicians, make unreasonable Racheterization of coronary virus, and China and the United States have launched a dispute over the crown name of the crown disease.Pompeo has always referred to the virus as the new crown virus, although China's protests are constantly.In the national TV speech on crown disease, Trump twisted the virus as a foreign virus that started in China;Essence
The racism of American politicians quickly aroused the anger of Chinese society. Whether it was paper media or network space, they were full of discussion.The middle and lower level officials also joined the angry team without exception.Trump seemed to be prepared for this. Next, he called Chinese viruses on various occasions.Trump's behavior aroused China's anger, and officials of diplomatic systems responded continuously.In this way, the conflict rushed up.It was not until the general phone call with Trump, and the statement about the right to name was ease.
Another battlefield is media battle.The Wall Street Journal published an article with racist colors that slandered the Chinese, causing China to expel three reporters in China.The United States follow -up restrictions on the number of Chinese media in the United States, and register these Chinese media as foreign government agents.China is naturally countermeasures, and made a decision to expel several major media in the United States in China, and at the same time restricted Chinese people who work as American media.The United States also made the same reaction according to the this announcement.The upgrade of conflict is also spiral.
However, whether it is the naming right of the virus or the media battle, these may be just the appearance of the conflict between China and the United States.In fact, both sides thought that they knew the real agenda behind these conflicts.From the perspective of the United States, China wants to use this opportunity to replace the United States globally to dominate the world.In China, the United States does this to curb and block China's rise.Obviously, the concerns of the two sides are not fresh. At least since the 1990s, it was just the opportunity to borrow the crisis crisis again and was upgraded.
Some commentators say that the United States has racism in the United States to shirk the responsibility of the government's inadequate resistance.Although the virus was outbreak in Wuhan, the early US government regarded this as an ordinary influenza without paying attention and delayed the opportunity.As Trump said, the United States has the most developed and largest economy in the world, as well as a developed public health system. It is not worried about the virus, and there is no need to fear.
Nevertheless, the United States does not effectively block the rapid spread of the virus.This confidence in American politicians is a heavy blow.It is not difficult to understand. People without self -confidence will find the opportunity to push the mistakes to others, and so is the country.In fact, to this day, many politicians in the United States are still keen to shirk responsibility and have not put their minds and energy on resistance.
However, virus racism does not have consensus in the American political circles.Democrats of Congress generally criticized Trump and administrative authorities to respond to the US crown disease.Democratic Federal MP Jim McGoverN said he was worried that Republicans' investigation in China would cause racial discrimination and even racial hatred.Elizabeth Warren also publicly called Pante Trump.Many Democrats also believe that the administrative authorities do this to shirk responsibility.
It is worth noting that the problem is not as simple as shirk responsibility.Crown disease tests the United States' internal affairs and diplomacy, and many aspects have contributed to the real and profound concerns of the United States for China. This authenticity and profoundness cannot be felt during normal times.
Economic high depends on China's danger
The first is concerns about China's concerns about China.Everyone knows the mutual dependence of China and the United States, but no one has so deeply felt the consequences of this high degree of dependence.As Michael McCaul, Republican member of the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, said: I do think we want to examine our supply chain, and 80%of our medical supplies are from China.If we must rely on China at such a crisis, when they threaten us, say that we want to put us in the hell of the coronal virus and refuse to provide us with medical supplies, the United States must re -examine and think about usCan you manufacture these products in the United States.
Indeed, the globalization since the 1980s has made American capitalism highly alienated, and the government has completely lost economic sovereignty.Under the banner of neo -liberalism, in order to profit, US capitalism relocated most of the economic activities overseas, including cutting medical supplies related to the lives of the people.When Trump talked about the United States is the most powerful economy in the world, and the best medical and health system, all the people needed only a simple mask, toiletting solution, protective clothing, ventilator, etc.Bringing safe materials, the United States no longer produces or has insufficient capacity.
This reality is unacceptable whether it is an American elite or the public.It is this reality that the theory of de -globalization in the United States is de -globalization.But it is obvious that this is not because of China, but because of the globalization of capital, making economic interests completely separate from the needs of society.Economy is originally a part of society, but when the economy is out of society, crisis is inevitable.
Followed by concerns about the Chinese system.In the end, the dispute between China and the United States is the struggle of the system.The effectiveness of the Chinese national system in the process of resistance has strengthened the concerns of the American elite's Chinese system.As far as the US system is concerned, as the US political scholar Fukuyama said, the US President's President is not responsible for the US President's inadequate resistance.If the U.S. elite has no effective reflection on the US system, the fear of the Chinese system is obvious.
The Chinese media's promotion of the Chinese system and the American elites' attack on the Chinese system not only have a sharp contrast, but also the two are intensified, that is, the more high -profile China, the more fearful the United States.
It is not difficult to find that in today's US internal affairs and foreign discourse, whether in parliament members or among the State Council officials, China's concepts are becoming increasingly rare, and there is a trend of replacing the CCP's concepts.Emphasizing the CCP, not China, behind this change is the deep fear of the American elite for the Chinese system.
Republican Federal Senator Josh Hawley and the Federal Representative Elise Stefanik of the Federal Republic of China proposed a proposal in the House of Representatives to launch an international survey on the proliferation of the epidemic of the CCP's crown disease. At the same timeChina is required to compensate for compensation for affected countries in the world.
At the same time, there is another group of cross -party federal members of the Federal MPs who put forward another proposal to attribute crown diseases to China around the world, and call on China to publicly recognize crown disease originated in China.If you realize the fear of the American elite to the Chinese system, similar actions are not difficult to understand, and this move will become more and more in the future.
American worry is replaced by China
The third is the concern of the United States' global status by China.The epidemic spread rapidly in the United States, and the United States was overwhelming.Crown disease pushes Trump's US center theory to an extreme, showing the selfishness of the United States and the prevalence of unilateralism.The United States has not only broke the air in China, but also broke the European allies.Coronary virus almost broken the world's leadership.On the contrary, after being controlled by the local epidemic, China began to show its epidemic diplomacy, not only to develop countries, but also provided assistance to the United States and even the United States.What worries the United States is that these countries have invested in China's embrace in response to the crisis and unconditionally accepted China aid.
This situation is unacceptable to the United States. The United States is worried that the crown disease epidemic will deeply weaken or even eliminate the influence of geopolitical US geopolitics, so that China will have an unprecedented opportunity to dominate the world's geopolitics.Pompeo's words have repeatedly pointed to the CCP. At a video conference on the foreign minister of the Seventh Kingdom Group, he called on countries to fight against the malicious impact of the CCP in international institutions such as the United Nations.It should also be pointed out that although European countries need Chinese assistance, the geopolitical influence of Chinese aid can also maintain a high degree of vigilance.
In terms of relations between China and the United States, it is even worse and more important. Today, the conflict between the conflict is increasingly a profound social foundation, that is, the increasingly ethnicist emotions within the two countries.Various polls from the United States show that Americans have the lowest point of China's favorability at China and the United States.Although there are no similar polls in China, from the perspective of hundreds of millions of netizens' rising nationalism and populist emotions, the low favorability of the public about the United States is also unprecedented.
It is undeniable that the crown disease epidemic has contributed to the upgrade of the Cold War between China and the United States.Now more and more people are starting to worry. As the epidemic continues to spread in the United States, and American politicians push responsibility to China, with the rapid rise of the anti -China wave with anti -communist anti -China as the core, coupled with the economic crisis of deterioration,Social fear and the crisis of internal governance in the United States, the Cold War between China and the United States will be transformed into a hot battle.If so, it is a disaster in the world.In history, war and plague are indeed a pair of twin brothers.There is no reason to despise this.
(The author is a professor at the East Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. The article only represents personal opinions)
