2023 is a year full of challenges and uncertainties, and China and the United States are drifting apart, but the 2024 China-US game is still the main theme, and for China and the United States, their respective economic development is the most important.
After decades of accumulation, China has seen through the West, and has quietly pinched the four major lifelines of the United States
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First, the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry.
Compared with the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry in the United States, China has become a real world factory, and Made in China has been an uncrackable existence in the world.
The United States has lost the advantage of manufacturing and wants to suppress China through finance and high technology, but this cannot bypass the threshold of industry, and China can already counteract in many raw materials and processing technologies.
More typically, the rise of China's shipbuilding industry and electric vehicle manufacturing has led to the extension of its own sea power strategy, which can already break the US siege in the first island chain.
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2. The fall of Western values.
Many Chinese have always been fascinated by the Western set of universal values, but the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in 2023 has made the Western universal values shaky, and China has a greater say on the Middle East issue.
By brokering reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran and insisting on a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China has set an example for the West with its own actions, and then the recent Epstein list has dealt a heavy blow to the West, and the public in China does not dare to speak out on this issue at all.
Chinese culture has been inherited for thousands of years, and it is the only cultural inheritance that has not been broken from generation to generation, and we still have to be confident in this regard.
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Third, Israel has become the soft underbelly of the United States.
Israel is invincible all over the Middle East, and it is inseparable from the support of the United States, but now in Gaza, there is no way to deal with Hamas, and it has made a mess, and the United States' bottomless support for Israel has also made everyone see clearly the fact that Israel has become the weakness of the United States.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has driven Russia to rely on China, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has offended Iran and Saudi Arabia at the same time, and it will continue in 2024, China, Russia and Iran will have to work closely if they don't want to join forces, since the United States has a soft underbelly in the Middle East, it can break the strategic layout of the United States in the Middle East.
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Fourth, the Belt and Road Initiative drives the world.
Ten years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative first started, few countries responded, but now 151 countries have participated, making it the largest global cooperation organization outside the United Nations.
Any country that wants to develop cannot do without infrastructure and commodities, and this is precisely the strength of the Belt and Road Initiative, especially for developing countries, economic development is the top priority.
2024, or the first year of the United States and Russia, will Trump be able to come to power?Can Putin remain at the helm?It's all the focus of the issue, and the Russian-Ukrainian war is estimated to continue, and it won't end rashly even if it doesn't fight;The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will certainly be fought until everyone agrees on the two-state solution.
Peace and development are the main theme, and if the United States does not give up all kinds of sanctions, then what awaits will inevitably be reciprocal counter-sanctions. In the midst of great changes unseen in a century, 2024 will be a year full of turbulent waves.