The National Defense Authorization Act recently signed by Biden in the United States, which involves negative provisions against China, has aroused strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition from China. This bill raises US spending to a record $886 billion, and people can't help but worry about whether the United States will repeat the mistake of arms expansion and end up reaping the consequences. This bill exposes the hypocritical nature of the United States to "say one thing and do another". On the one hand, the bill deals with issues and violates the US side's previous commitment not to support "independence."On the other hand, some provisions in the bill use the pretext of "** as an excuse to suppress Chinese companies and restrict economic, trade and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States, which contradicts the previous statement of the United States that it does not seek decoupling from China, and further damages the political and diplomatic credibility of the United States."
The United States has always been adept at finding excuses for military expansion, claiming to face "unprecedented and rapidly evolving threats" from countries such as China, and strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing military spending. However, no matter how much the United States confuses the public, it cannot hide the fact that they have more than 800 overseas military bases around the world, and their military spending has always been the largest in the world. This makes one wonder who is the real threat
Behind the exaggeration of the "China threat" by the United States lies its ambition to maintain hegemony. According to the Pentagon's budget report, the U.S. military will spend tens of billions of dollars on producing more missiles and accelerating the modernization of air, space and nuclear**. They also want to strengthen the anti-jamming capabilities of satellite communications and deploy a series of missile warning systems. The pursuit of hegemony and absolute security through an unlimited increase in military spending will only exacerbate the risk of a global arms race and bring more security threats to the world.
However, the real threat to US security is not external factors, but the US itself. In recent years, the United States has been deteriorating in terms of extremism, terrorism, racial hate crimes, political violence, and gun violence, and the domestic security situation is worrisome. The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security has said that domestic violent extremists have become a "national threat" to the United States. If the United States pursues only its own security, ignores common security, and views international competition as a zero-sum game, then countries will fall into a "prisoner's dilemma" of mutual distrust, which will ultimately make the United States itself more insecure.