At present, the increasingly upgraded actions that the United States has recently adopted to China has not only constituted risks for the long -term development of Sino -US relations, but also the risk of positive conflict between the two countries is also increasing rapidly.Obviously, in the post -epidemic era, the new and old contradictions and differences accumulated in various fields of bilateral relations between China and the United States have caused the process of mutual dislocation and the mass change process of mutual dislocation.
In the development of more than 40 years of normalization of Sino -US relations, traditional or structural contradictions include issues related to Taiwan -related Tibetan issues, human rights, Xinjiang Victoria issues, trade imbalances, and opaque development of national defense.In the past, many so -called new normal differences have been added.Among them, the South China Sea issue, intellectual property protection, trade war, online war, 5G technology security, Hong Kong -related issues (mainly referring to Hong Kong riots last year) are the most prominent.
The emergence of these new and old contradictions and frictions is completely different from the ideology and social system between China and the United States, but from a practical point of view, it is still a strong United States. How to correctly understand and accept a rising China.And the issue of peaceful coexistence with it.Obviously, during the tenure of different presidents of the United States, it has different strategies to deal with relations with China.Nevertheless, the bottom line of Sino -US relations is still clear and can be followed, that is, competing with cooperation or at least avoid direct conflict.
Unfortunately, such a relationship has been distorted and deviated with Trump.Trump's concept of governing Trump's followers is centered on the United States, rather than multilateral politics and multilateral cooperation, let alone conform to globalization.Therefore, the basic starting point of maintaining Sino -US relations is unlikely to maintain competition cooperation, but gradually evolved into competition.
There is no doubt that the recent epidemic situation has made Sino -US relations that were already sensitive and complicated, which is closer to the dark edge of positive conflicts.Trump popularized its main officials and frequently accused China of concealing the epidemic virus from the Wuhan Laboratory. China tried to control the use of the WHO China to expand its influence.In short, the epidemic has made the hostile Chinese political forces and some conservative media in the United States extremely excited, thinking that the timing of collectively liquidating China has arrived, and began to actively deploy the overall attack plan for China after the epidemic.
The first is that the judicial lawsuit has a main responsibility for the spread of the epidemic and requires China to compensate for losses.In late April, two Republican members of the United States Congress jointly proposed legal proposals to encourage the federal government, state governments and individuals to sue China and demand compensation.Although the proposal had time to set up the agenda in the U.S. Congress, Missouri and Mississippi were anxious to sue China.
Obviously, it is impossible to win the lawsuit, but it is more like a legal farce on the political declaration of China, which obviously helps to activate various anti -China forces in the United States and help the American people who have lost their work due to the domestic epidemic.The objects that can condemn and vent their dissatisfaction will also help Trump's re -election this year to get more support.
For Republicans, using the prosecution of China to strengthen Trump's governing status may be a political consensus within the party; while the leader of the post -70s Missouri Republican Chief Prosecutor Eric Middot; Schmidt, Schmidt,I am afraid that the throne of the chief prosecutor of the Federal Chief Federation.
The second is that pushing the news that Chinese and US -funded enterprises should evacuate China and encourage US -funded enterprises to decide with China.In early April, Kudlo, director of the National Economic Commission of the United States, publicly stated that if the US -funded company withdraws from China, all expenses can be paid 100 % by the government.This reminder of Kudlo is by no means an acupuncture point.Looking back at the beginning of the Sino -US trade friction in the first half of last year, Trump has also called for more than once on his Twitter, calling on the US -US -funded enterprise to move back to the United States.
As Trump's chief economic adviser, Kudlo obviously clearly clear when Trump's proposal should be refined to make conceptual proposals more attractive and operable.It must be specifically pointed out that the evacuation of China withdrawn from China and judicial prosecution to appear on the front and rear feet. Therefore, once the Chinese government compensates for a decline, is it a mortgage to confiscate the Chinese capital in the United States?If this is the case, the Chinese government can no longer detain as the assets of Huimei.
Finally, the world architecture of the epidemic era after layout.I believe that the vast majority of people will agree that the epidemic has brought a huge impact on all aspects of the world. The world of the post -epidemic era can no longer recover the old way before the epidemic.Some of the crisis have arrived, and some have arrived as scheduled.For example, the financial market has shocked violently, and the price of oil futures has once historically fell into a negative location. More crushed countries are facing political turmoil or even disintegration, and the world's grain crisis may not be unavoidable.The international multilateral mechanism represented by the WHO will be seriously impacted. The United States has stopped funding the WHO, or just the beginning of the United States trying to reshape the international multilateral structure.Sooner or later, the globalization process is facing the ultimate challenge.
In the post -epidemic era, the United States was most worried about the European allies, and it was not the same dream of the same bed of the Middle East allies, nor was it the threat of Russia's strategic weapons, but China's international influence, appeal and action.The spirit of mutual assistance and cooperation in China in the epidemic, coupled with specific support actions, deeply worried the American politics circle.Because China's actions are no longer the slogan of publicity, but the combination of morality and action, it is a concrete display of national strength and influence.
In this way, the way the United States is looking at China cannot only take care of the surface, but to seriously think about how to cope with the opponent mdash; mdash; a opponent who can change world rules and has quite strength.In the future, China Election and Anti -China Club will be the main axis of the United States to China.
In 2003, the United States launched the Iraq war. The excuse was that Iraq had a large -scale killing weapon. The result proved no, but the Saddam regime was overthrown. Before 1986But it became the outpost of the Western disintegration of the Soviet Union.History sometimes seems to have known each other, but it is more repeat the same mistakes.
China seems to be facing similar challenges.It should be seen that Sino -US relations can no longer return to good nor the time, and the difference is not much worse.In the face of the post -epidemic era, the United States and the West actively attacked China. If Chinese truths are holding, it can only be actively looking for new diplomatic balance points while fighting positively.
(The author is a senior current affairs commentator of Phoenix Satellite TV, a visiting scholar of the Brookings Society in the United States)
