In order to restrict China's development, the United States has continuously taken various measures to suppress Chinese enterprises, curb Chinese industries, and hinder China's rise.
In the face of a variety of unfair sanctions, China is still developing calmly, which makes many small countries have the illusion that China is a soft persimmon.
How did China respond to the unreasonable sanctions imposed by the United States?
How can China's simple move be established in the international arena?
The United States advocates freedom and economic globalization, but when its own economic interests are damaged, it unilaterally adopts various sanctions and practices its own protectionism in the name of fairness.
At first, for the sake of development, China could only grit its teeth and insist, seeking development space in the cracks.
In recent years, the United States has often increased tariffs, sanctioned real enterprises, and restricted a certain product to China**, which seems to be unfair sanctions against China today, because now China's rise threatens the status of the United States.
In fact, this is the consistent approach of the United States in dealing with the so-called global **.
China only formally joined the WTO in 2001, and the unfair investigation measures of the United States began in 1991.
It can be said that doing business with the United States, as long as you see how much you earn, the United States will suppress it under the pretext of fairness.
One of the most notorious is the "301" investigation, according to the "301" clause of the United States' domestic law
If you feel that foreign imports of goods affect the development of U.S. business, you can unilaterally take retaliatory measures such as restricting and increasing tariffs on the grounds of "unreasonable" and "unfair".
In the 10 years before China's accession to the WTO, the United States launched three "301" investigations against China.
The American capitalists, who have not even been discovered and lost in the industrial competition, can help them "feel" that the industry needs to start a "301" investigation through Congress.
On September 28, 2010, hundreds of members of the U.S. Congress jointly asked then-President Barack Obama to launch a "301" investigation into China in the field of clean energy.
The reason is nothing more than that China is killing all sides in wind power and solar energy products in the United States, and the local industry is about to be ruled by China.
In order to win votes, congressmen from both parties usually do their best to engage in confrontation, but their views on suppressing China are surprisingly consistent, and the development of China and the United States has always been accompanied by various suppressions of China by the United States.
In the face of such a situation, Chinese officials and Chinese companies did not complain too much, which made the small countries on the lookers feel that we are easy to bully.
We have actively taken measures to negotiate with the United States, adjust our foreign trade strategy at the domestic macro level, participate in international negotiations to seek to formulate international rules and standards, and at the same time use the functions of the WTO to resolve disputes.
China's foreign trade enterprises have also accumulated rich experience in responding to sanctions, and they have responded to the United States' best protection measures through WTO appeals and extensive international market development.
In recent years, China has also "exchanged courtesies", so that the United States can also feel the power of economic sanctions, "obscene development" for more than 30 years, and China, which has risen de facto, is about to open the "hunting moment" between China and the United States.
All countries that think China is easy to bully will be slapped in the face by reality.
Today's China is no longer the China of 30 years ago, and it can already stand up and speak with the United States, and China still has a lot of cards to play in the war against the United States.
On July 21, 2023, the Ministry of Commerce announced the 25th announcement of this year, announcing the official opening of an anti-dumping investigation on propionic acid products imported from the United States.
From 2019 to 2023, propionic acid exported by U.S. companies to China accounted for more than 50% of China's propionic acid productionIt's because of price dumping.
In 2019, one ton of imported propionic acid** was about 7,000, and by the beginning of 2023**, it dropped to about 4,000 yuan.
As an important raw material in the industrial field, propionic acid is widely used in medical, pesticide, food, chemical and other manufacturing industries.
The Americans set up factories in Southeast Asia and used extremely low costs to create low-cost propionic acid, suppressing the development of Chinese propionic acid enterprises.
At the end of May 2023, the Jiangsu Chemical Industry Association submitted an anti-dumping application for propionic acid to the Ministry of Commerce, and then based on the facts, the Ministry of Commerce opened an investigation.
The United States, which once played the anti-dumping game vigorously, made a move in the face of ChinaJumping to the feet in a hurry to further strengthen sanctions against China.
Since August 1, China has implemented export controls on gallium and germanium-related items.
Gallium and germanium, as extremely important scarce strategic resources, are widely used in cutting-edge fields such as satellite communications, solar cells, semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
Among them, gallium is known as the "backbone of the electronics industry", and "Wall Street**" said that in the American radar and chip industry, gallium arsenide cannot find an effective substitute at present. Germanium is also a key material in the military and high-end manufacturing industries.
For the sake of China's chip development, the United States banned the Netherlands from giving China photolithography machines and Japan from selling photoresist to China.
The Netherlands and Japan have also experienced the consequences of siding with the United States in China's gallium and germanium export controls.
And China's ** sanctions from the United States, the wonderful moments of slapping the face do not stop there.
China's chip industry has always been the focus of US suppression, and US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo shouted before his visit to China that if Huawei continues to engage in research and development, the United States will continue to impose sanctions.
Arriving in China on August 27, 2023, Huawei directly launched its latest flagship phone, the Mate 60 Pro, on August 29 without any publicity.
Huawei, as a key enterprise sanctioned by the United States, has long been cut off from mobile phone processor chips**, which means that Huawei has broken through the blockade and completed the self-development and mass production of chips under the national pressure of the United States.
As soon as Huawei's new flagship was launched, it shocked the world, and Raimondo became the best advertisement. Didn't the United States not allow Huawei to develop high-tech?Isn't it a crackdown on China's chip industry?
Huawei's success not only slapped the United States in the face, but also boosted the morale of Chinese enterprises, and the whole country celebrated for a while.
However, this has not changed the United States' attitude towards China's suppression, and they are still increasing more sanctions against Chinese companies and industries, while China can only continue to make moves to set rules for the United States and the world.
Since the start of the Sino-US war, the United States has continuously increased sanctions against China, and China has taken more and more tough countermeasures.
Not only will the United States bear the consequences, but also the small countries that have watched China's jokes in the past and expected China to be suppressed will also taste the bitter fruits.
On October 17, 2023, the United States announced a new round of export control rules, prohibiting American companies from selling high-end graphics computing processor GPUs to China, which will both restrict the development of China's artificial intelligence industry.
The data processing power represented by GPU is also called computing power, and computing power represents the speed of artificial intelligence learning and evolution.
Artificial intelligence is an important future industry, and American companies have already achieved a first-mover advantage with sufficient hardware computing power, and the United States only issued this regulation in order to ensure that it is not overtaken by China.
In response to the U.S. move, China announced on October 20 that it would impose export controls on some natural and artificial graphite products.
Graphite is widely used in emerging fields such as lithium batteries, solar energy, and photovoltaics, and is in huge demand.
As soon as this measure came out, not only the United States was sanctioned, but Japan, South Korea, and Europe were also unhappy
Because Japan, South Korea and Europe are not innocent, China's new energy vehicles, in the field of electric vehicles, have realized the "lane change overtaking" of traditional enterprises, and the demand for batteries has driven the development of the graphite industry.
In the first quarter of 2023, China's auto exports increased by 76%, surpassing Japan to become the world's first, Japan is very eyed by China's rise, and as early as September, it followed in the footsteps of the United States to impose export controls on 23 types of semiconductor production equipment to China, and South Korea also followed up with sanctions at the request of the United States.
In Europe, China's electric vehicles go overseas, with the advantage of the first chain, selling 50% higher than the domestic **, which has a huge impact on traditional European car companies.
After European car companies purchased and dismantled China's new energy vehicles, they sadly found that under the same conditions, Europe could not achieve the same cost.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a countervailing investigation into China's new energy vehicles and punitive tariffs.
China's export control of graphite products is to let the people who suppress China know that China is powerful.
The Sino-US war has been fought so far, in fact, they are hurting each other, only in the field of chips, the American chip giants have warned the United States more than once that the suppression of China may force China to get rid of the chain dependence, and when the Chinese market is completely lost, the United States will suffer more losses.
South Korea's semiconductor material wafers, because of the export restrictions to China, the inventory soared by 265% in January 2023, forcing South Korea** to intercede with the United States, and finally the United States exempted Samsung, SK, Hynix and other South Korean companies from the export ban.
In the 80s of the last century, the rise of Japan's manufacturing industry, the semiconductor industry surpassed the United States, and the United States frantically suppressed the Japanese semiconductor industry, taking advantage of the "Toshiba embargo", so that the Japanese semiconductor industry collapsed, and even ushered in a 30-year economic recession.
And today's China is not Japan, the United States embargoed chips, China already has the ability to produce its own chips, chips above 14 nanometers, China has the ability to manufacture, 7 nanometers and even 3 nanometer chips, because of the release of Huawei Mate 60 Pro, it is also determined that it can be mass-produced.
The blockade and sanctions of the United States, China has the ability to break through, and it is even more capable of countering.
The United States is not unaware of this, and has dominated the world for a long timeStill unable to let go of pride and prejudice, China can only use its rise to make American politicians accept the fact that the United States is in decline.