Not so long ago, in the US Congress, one was called"China Council"of the agency published a "stress test" on the separation of the U.S.-China economic relationship.
In addition, the report also mentions that in addition to being prepared, it is also necessary to consider the contradictions between China and the United States, and how much impact the United States and the world economy will have if the United States imposes a large number of sanctions on China.
Therefore,"China Council"He declared that the Biden administration should establish a coordinating body to evaluate the possible joint consequences of the Sino-US conflict. They also pointed out that the United States faces two options: one is to be an "economic vassal" of China, and the other is to fight fiercely to preserve American security, prosperity, values, and more.
The rest of the report is a meaningless cliché. This report was published just over a month after the Sino-US summit in San Francisco.
The so-called "China Council" is the US-China Strategic Contest Group, and you can guess its origin just by listening to its name. Biden's approach to China revolves around "strategic competition" with the aim of "outperforming China" and controlling competition between the two sides.
As a result, a special group was set up, whose role was to indirectly intervene in Biden's foreign policymaking. But in their view, the so-called "China Council" is only a part of "strategic competition", and the control of China policy is the business of Biden's administration. Therefore, most of their proposals are quite extreme.
Although the China Council was initially dominated by the Republican Party, in some respects, there was some voice. The first is Gallagher and the second is Krishnamosi. The former view is that there should be coordination between the two parties on the issue of "dealing with China."
The former was happy to cooperate with Gallagher at the beginning, but after the Sino-US summit in San Francisco, they deliberately released the remark that the Sino-US talks were "priceless", and the set of unanimous opinions formed by the Chinese and US leaders at the San Francisco summit may stimulate the two sides to generate "potential" in their respective cooperation.
These differences in views involve the game and coordination between the two parties, namely the China Council, which plays its due role under China's different strategic goals.
Of course, the change in his tone does not mean that his attitude and stance will also change, but because the situation between China and the United States requires that the Democrats in the "China Council" cannot undermine Biden's foreign policy.
On the other hand, Democrats are deliberately moving toward the worst-case scenario of the U.S.-China relationship based on their own political interests, which will help them gain populist enthusiasm among the populace and thus electoral enthusiasm. As for the Democrats, they are not willing to cooperate with them and take such extreme measures.
The China Council, on the other hand, is a partner between the two major political parties in the United States, and their report has been unanimously approved by the two major political parties.
It is worth mentioning that last year, the council organized two "war games" and even invited high-level Wall Street officials to participate in the meeting, just to see how the US financial circle could deal with the contradictions between China and the United States.
Considering the size of China's economy and its economic and trade relations with other countries in the world, if the United States rashly imposes large-scale sanctions on China, even if it encourages its own companies to separate from China on a large scale, it will itself suffer huge adverse consequences.
China's scale is not comparable to Russia's, Feng Yu knows this very well. However, the economic relationship between the United States and Russia is not as close as that between China and the United States. Therefore, the negative effect of US sanctions against Russia is minimal.
But if it's China, the United States will have to think about it. The "China Council" wants the Federal Reserve Bank to undergo a stress test, which is in essence extremists in the United States, who are eager to show the outside world that even if China and the United States are separated, even if it is a head-on confrontation, it will not do the United States any harm. But such an assumption is unrealistic.
Therefore, from the very beginning, this "pressure test" was results-centered, without any reference significance, and once the "China Council" could not meet their demands, they would definitely find another way.
It is worth noting that since its creation, the specialized agency has argued that the United States needs to engage in "strong competition" with China, while also wanting to selectively separate the American economy from China. Although it does not have the right to enact and amend bills, in a certain sense, it can be seen as a "weather vane" for the perception of China in American political circles.
In particular, US Representative to China Burns pointed out in a statement that so far, many major differences between China and the United States, especially the Taiwan Strait, Ukraine, the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, and so on, have not been well resolved. However, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are two regional focal points, rather than major conflicts, and they reflect the differences in views between China and the United States on international governance.
But in the Taiwan Strait, it's a different story. This is an important issue that China and the United States have repeatedly reiterated when they resumed high-level dialogues, and this is what China and the United States said when they resumed high-level dialogues. However, at present, the United States is still a bit of a ninety-nine attitude towards the Taiwan Strait.
This shows that the Biden administration lacks a clearer plan for Sino-US relations, and after the period of "stopping the decline and stabilizing", some ideas have emerged. This report by the China Task Force also shows us that there is still a long way to go to fundamentally improve Sino-US relations.