There was a honeymoon period between China and the United States in history, but why is China being repeatedly targeted by the United States today?
This topic has been hotly discussed by netizens, and Lin Yifu, an outstanding domestic economist, also gave a speech on this occasion.
Obama once said that after China becomes a developed country, developed countries will be downgraded to middle-income countries, so all Western countries are anti-China.
Could it be that Obama's words get to the root of the problem? In fact, there are still a variety of factors that are wrapping up the twists and turns of Sino-US relations, and British scholars have put forward a fresh point of view - China has committed an original sin, so what is this so-called "original sin"?
1. In the eyes of the United States, China itself is "guilty".
The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty, this is the original sin.
A country with nuclear ** and ultra-high-tech warheads, doing nothing, just standing there - no aggression, no provocation, and even when it is friendly with the rest of the world, this is already a crime.
In the eyes of the United States, this is the case with China.
In recent years, China has been striving to improve relations with its neighboring countries and catch up with the tide of world development.
The White House once released a report defining China as a "threat" and calling China "the biggest threat and biggest competitor facing the United States."
The United States in 2024 is coming, and whether it is Trump's election or Biden's election that is beneficial to China has been hotly discussed by Chinese netizens.
Some people believe that Trump's hostile attitude towards our country will intensify after taking office, so Biden should still be re-elected, but some netizens pointed out: Both of them are spokesmen for American capital, and Trump and Biden will stand on the opposite side of China, but the degree of suppression between the two is different, and Biden will be more tactful in comparison.
Under the Trump administration, U.S.-China relations fell to a nearly 40-year low.
Netizens are quite worried about this - is China and the United States about to enter a new Cold War era, or will there be armed conflicts in the region?
After Trump, Biden came to power, the crazy war was called off and replaced by the so-called decoupling, and Sino-US relations remained lukewarm.
Moreover, after Biden came to power, regional conflicts have become more and more frequent, with a large amount of support for Zelensky, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, etc., and they have not eased their attitude towards China.
Therefore, even without Trump, there will be Biden, and even without Biden, there will be the next US leader, and China and the United States cannot escape this fate of hurting each other.
No matter how much China does not want confrontation with the United States, and how much it hopes that the two sides can take the path of peaceful development, but interests determine everything, and China's national strength is there, second only to the United States, and today, when US hegemony is crumbling, China will inevitably be regarded as the number one hostile country, so it is inevitable to strategically encircle and suppress China. At present, bringing down China is something that the United States must do and will do.
As mentioned above: if the husband is not guilty, he is guilty.
If it were an ordinary country, the United States would not bother to deal with it at all, and perhaps it would be kind enough to provide some assistance.
But China is different, the backbone of the Chinese has lasted for 5,000 years, no matter the invasion of any foreign power, or the outbreak of civil strife, the Chinese people have the ability to rebuild their own civilization, which is an extremely shocking tenacity, and it is also the most feared place by Americans.
When China was at its most poor and weak, the eight-nation coalition invaded China, but the Chinese people completed social changes; New China had just established a regime, and the United States intervened in the Korean Peninsula with armed force, as a result, the myth of the invincibility of the United States was shattered by the Volunteer Army.
The piles and piles made the Americans unbelievable.
Therefore, it does not matter to the United States whether the Chinese state is showing goodwill or showing its sword, the important thing is that China's future development potential is very terrifying to the Americans, so curbing this potential is their top priority.
Second, British scholars put forward China's "original sin".
In addition to China's own "guilt", the British scholar Mark Aden also put forward another theory of "original sin" - the difference in ideology between the two sides.
As everyone knows, the current socialist camp in the world is dominated by China, and other socialist countries are not strong enough, so the United States does not need to worry.
But China's development in recent years has made it difficult for Americans to sleep.
It took 200 years of development for the capitalist countries to establish a solid foundation, so whether it is political or economic, they have arrogant capital, but they know very well that this rapid development is based on naked colonial plunder and oppression and exploitation of the people.
On the contrary, China's rise is entirely dependent on the "involution" of Chinese, and is the result of the Chinese nation's strong, brave and unremitting vitality of self-improvement.
According to the perspective of the Americans, China will become the world's second largest economy without relying on others and relying only on its own strength.
On the side of the couch, it is not allowed for others to snore, and the Americans understand this very well, so they have trouble sleeping and eating.
At the same time, they also think about another dimension - the values that are unique to the East.
The Americans have won many battles in the ideological struggle, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, and the United States was afraid of the Soviet Union's proud scientific and technological and military industrial capabilities, but under the peaceful evolution of the capitalist world and the color revolution, the Soviets were still defeated, and a country belonging to workers collapsed.
The United States even has to provide supplies for the election of the first ** Yeltsin, which is a victory that belongs entirely to the West and to Western values.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans have been proud of their ideology.
They are proud of their values, so they believe in their bones that as long as they take the road of hegemony, as long as they use both soft and hard, any ideology different from the West will be defeated.
At first, the United States did look at China in this way, but gradually, they realized that something was wrong - China not only did not be defeated, but on the contrary, it went to the road of socialism with characteristics.
You must know that after many years of overseas colonial plunder, the Americans very much believe in the hegemonic theory of "the strong is king", and they sneer at and disdain to agree with the relevant theories of taking the road of peaceful development.
However, China not only agrees with this theory, but also follows this path, as long as there is peace, as long as it helps each other, it can also make progress together with other countries, which is a road that the Americans have never walked before, and it is also a road that they dare not believe.
Isn't it terrible for Americans to see with their own eyes that this untrustworthy theory has supported generations of Chinese to create a socialist power?
China's own strength is a "sin", and it is also a "sin" to have values that wrestle with the West, and these two "original sins" make Americans have to guard against them and have to "take action".
3. The future direction of China-US relations.
As mentioned above, the United States has always believed in the theory of hegemony, so they only have a zero-sum game in their minds, and they do not consider that win-win cooperation can achieve common development.
China and the United States, supported by different values, are also not the same, with China being politically clear and the United States being at loggerheads; Although the United States is the world's largest power, China's economic take-off has been witnessed by all countries in the world. China's proposal for peaceful and win-win development has won the approval of most countries, and the international discourse power has become more and more important, while the hegemony of the United States has been declining.
Together, these three are enough to make Americans jump on their feet, which is why the United States is steadfast in this regard - to contain the momentum of China's development is to push itself.
How to resolve the contradictions between China and the United States? War, this is the fastest way, and it is also the way that no country wants to see.
In recent years, China's economy and military have been developing at a speed that should not have been, and on the other hand, which one can make the original GDP contribution to the world economy less than 0 in 50 years1 country mentioning the world's second largest economy? And what political party can transform a fragile country into a thriving nation in 70 years?
In fact, the whole development process of China has realized all the aspirations of European and American countries.
On the other hand, the United States, after experiencing Trump's broken jar, the newly appointed Biden has also been leading the United States downhill, although the overall trend is still uphill, but its speed is bound to be a little slower than China, and our country has also experienced the United States' first war against China, ship harassment, peaceful evolution of the means, has never shown signs of collapse or decline like the Soviet Union, the United States finally returned in vain.
China can't eat soft sandwich rice, and the United States can only come hard.
But war is not child's play, and American politicians naturally know it, so they dare not go to war easily. Since neither soft nor hard means will work, what should the United States do next? Only crazy ** things.
Both China and the United States know that the United States has no way to contain China, and unless there is a large-scale war in China's homeland, it will be difficult to be fundamentally hindered.
As a result, the United States has been working elsewhere: to slow down the pace or progress of China's rise.
If the United States can elect a more savvy person than Trump in 2024, then the daunting challenges facing our country in the next decade will be related to the United States.
It's one thing to be theoretical, it's another thing to be able to do it, and if the United States wants to bring down China, China will not sit back and wait for its demise.
Although the United States has successfully reaped the dividends of several wars in history, it has also reaped the former "empire on which the sun never sets", the United Kingdom, as well as its younger brother Japan and the largest socialist country, the Soviet Union. However, in the face of China, which is in full swing, it may not be so easy for the United States to repeat the past.
The Western ideology of forging ahead still hangs over the world, and the new strength and wisdom that have blossomed from the Eastern civilization have opened up a new path for the development of the people of the world.
The great man once said: Imperialism will not die if it kills me. Today, it seems that this statement is still true today.