Social Theory July 6, 2020

On July 1, which celebrated the 23rd anniversary of the return of Hong Kong's return, the official promulgation and implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law has aroused great attention from the international community.Western society led by the United States not only strongly opposed it, but also stated that it would take specific actions to counter.The game that China and the United States opened in the form of a trade war in 2018 may rise to the height of ideological confrontation, and forcing the two parties to have room for compromise.A 21st Century Cold War based on the conflict of values may start.

In China, it will establish the Hong Kong National Security Law to combat and curb and curb Hong Kong's political resistance and even independent movements, and the United States and Western society have expressed strong opposition on the grounds that violate international commitments and damage Hong Kong's autonomy.The confrontation of China and the United States on the issue of the National Security Law of Hong Kong has further heat up bilateral tensions.The previous Sino -US trade war, after experiencing some repeats, finally came to an end with the signing of the first phase of the agreement.The dispute between the origin has been strengthened again.

The background of the game between China and the United States not only highlights the differences between the two sides in the Hong Kong National Security Law, the symbolic significance of the Hong Kong National Security Law itself has also led to the intensification of contradiction between the two countries.Originally, the game of great powers was basically a conflict of different countries.Although this conflict is complicated and difficult to solve, it can still be exchanged through bargaining interests, and has compromised or even resolved in the local area.However, once ideological conflicts involved in the level of value belief, the contradictions of large powers will be sharp, because the space for the two sides is extremely limited.

It is not allowed that ideological conflicts are actually based on national interests.The United States recently formed a two -party consensus that threatened China as a strategic threat, provided that it has completely failed to recognize that the United States has accepted China to enter the international order led by the West since its reform and opening up.

The assumptions and reasons for this effort are not only because of Western capital with huge Chinese markets, but also because of American decision makers that in this way, it will promote China's peaceful evolution and enable them to accept universal values such as Western freedom and democracy.

However, the economic scale of China has grown rapidly after joining the WTO, and its inextricable links formed by the international economic and trade system, especially the important position occupied by the global value chainRich and extensive.In order to protect and promote these new interests, China ’s diplomatic posture on the international stage is more high -profile and tough, and eventually conflicts with the United States and the West in certain interests.The dispute over the quality of resistance and disadvantages caused by the national model caused by the crown disease, as well as the influence showed by China's international groups such as the WHO, compare the errors of the European and American system to respond to the crown disease, as well as the social chaos and strategic shrinkage of the United States.It is strengthening the impression of China's threat in Western society.

The implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law is the strong countermeasure of Beijing's social self -determination and independence tendencies in Hong Kong, which also reflects that China does not accept peaceful evolution and regards it as a conspiracy to subvert the regime.

The strategic policy of the United States published by the White House in May to the People's Republic of China has officially restored the Cold War Vocabulary such as the Communist Party of China, showing that the United States has enhanced the threat of China to the height of ideology.Freedom and democracy against the battle for values of totalitarian dictatorship.

One country and two systems in Hong Kong are designed to hope that China and the West can coexist in this special zone.The West believes that the two systems of the National Security Law of Hong Kong are the conclusions of this ideological conflict.

The White House hinted that in the near future, countermeasures will be launched in response to the Hong Kong National Security Law.The United States allies such as Britain, Canada, Australia and Japan also echo to varying degrees.

Beijing stated that it would not give up one country, two systems, but it would strengthen control over Hong Kong and would not ignore the countermeasures of the West.Therefore, the Hong Kong National Security Law may have become the explosion of ideological conflict between China and the West, and the two sides may have embarked on the new cold war.The results of the presidential election in the United States in November this year may have some variables in the Sino -US game, but it is believed that it is difficult to reverse the general trend of ideological confrontation.