Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States has imposed economic, political, military, and diplomatic sanctions on China, and has united with Chiang Kai-shek in an attempt to strangle the new China. However, with the changes in Sino-Soviet relations and US-Soviet relations, Sino-US relations have also eased. In 1972, after Nixon's visit to China, Sino-US relations officially improved and ushered in a period of friendship. However, can it be considered that the US policy towards China is only a temporary decision?Does it depend on the attitude of the next **?This illusion has always existed in recent history. However, can the idea of having illusions about the United States and expecting it to change its policy toward China really come true?
The answer is no, and it can even be said that the United States will not give up, and the Chinese should no longer have any illusions about the United States. Why?Many believe that the U.S. attitude toward China is largely due to differences in the camps of the two countries. However, today's world pattern is very different, and joint economic development and peace have become the common aspirations of the people of today's world. Which camp a country belongs to is not the main contradiction, and there are actually deeper reasons why the United States continues to provoke and target China.
In an interview with Australia in 2010, Obama said: "If more than a billion people in China live the life of Americans, we will enter a miserable era." This sentence was very much in line with the American view of China at the time. Obama's point is clear: he doesn't want Chinese to live as well as Americans. The Chinese are hardworking, down-to-earth, and willing to work, relying on their hands to work in exchange for wealth and the development of the country, why does the United States not want the Chinese people to live a good life?Why don't they allow China to develop and grow?The wealth of the Chinese is created by themselves, and it is not plundering the United States, what are the Americans afraid of?
It is an eternal truth that the country is rich and strong, and what Americans are afraid of is not that the Chinese people will live a good life, but that China will become truly strong. China's rise to become a world power has become the focus of international relations. It is not difficult to understand why the United States has long viewed China as a competitor. The invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition a hundred years ago demonstrated the law of the jungle in which powerful countries compete for resources. The great powers of that time opened the gates of China with muskets and cannons, and lifted the fig leaf of China. This act of aggression was not accidental, but was determined by the world pattern of the time.
The countries represented by the Eight-Nation Coalition were the world's great powers at the time, and their GDP rankings were firmly at the top. In other words, the direction of the world pattern is jointly determined by the powerful countries at that time, and the GDP ranking determines the ranking of the strength of these countries to a certain extent. Therefore, since its founding, China has focused on economic development, implemented the policy of reform and opening up, and achieved tremendous economic achievements. China's GDP is already among the top 10 in the world, and such achievements are enough to prove China's rapid rise in the past few decades. Therefore, in today's world pattern, China's rise has naturally attracted the attention of the United States.
There are two main reasons why China has not been the focus of attention for the United States. First, although China was the largest global GDP at the time, its per capita GDP lagged behind. The United States is more interested in per capita GDP, and they see China's total GDP as a false façade based on a large population. Second, despite China's rapid progress, it is not the fastest-growing country. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Japan quickly became the world's second-largest economy, closely following the United States. In 1973, Japan ranked third, but the GDP of the United States was three times that of Japan.
In 1998, Japan ranked second, but its GDP was about half that of the United States. Japan's rapid rise has deeply troubled the United States. For these two reasons, the United States did not focus its main efforts on China's growing development, but set its sights on Japan, and through a series of means, stopped the growth of the Japanese economy, and even led to its negative growth. As can be seen from the approach of the United States, it previously targeted the Soviet Union, which ranked second, and then Japan, which ranked second. This suggests that the United States is not targeting countries based on bloc issues, but rather because of the threat posed to the second-largest country in terms of GDP.
Therefore, the deep concern of the United States about China is closely related to China's economic development. In 1998, China concentrated on economic development without receiving special attention from the United States, and its GDP ranking rose rapidly. Two years after Beijing's successful hosting of the Olympics, China has overtaken Japan to become second in the world, behind only the United States. In addition, the United States' concerns about China stem from the fact that China has reached agreements with several countries to settle in yuan, including some resource powerhouses such as Argentina and Saudi Arabia.
Judging from this trend, in the future, more and more countries will settle in RMB, and the status of RMB in the international financial field will gradually approach that of the US dollar. The United States has pegged the dollar to "hard currency" to ensure its dominance in the global economy. Initially, with more than half of the world's reserves, the United States pegged the dollar to **. Subsequently, limited by the amount of reserves, the United States removed the peg of the dollar from ** and instead pegged it to oil in order to maintain the dominance of the dollar. Therefore, the U.S. dollar and oil have become the two key means of economic development in the United States, and they also form the foundation of the U.S. economy.
However, with the rapid growth of China's GDP and the rise of the renminbi, the dominance of the dollar has been challenged, fundamentally shaking the economic position of the United States. Faced with this situation, the United States, which has long been in the hegemonic position of the world, has become accustomed to being high above. From the perspective of GDP ranking and dollar supremacy, and from a long-term historical perspective, it is unlikely that the United States will back down easily. This is the underlying root cause, not a camp problem.