The 2024 ** election in the United States has officially begun, and in order to win votes, both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have shown their talents, and the competition is extremely fierce.
It is reported that during the Republican primary, Haley, the former US representative to the United Nations, openly played a "tough card" against China. During her canvassing in New Hampshire, she openly made extremely tough remarks about China, advocating that China be regarded as an "enemy" and advocating the use of tougher measures against China.
It is not uncommon in the United States and Western political circles to deliberately play the "tough card" against China for the sake of elections. For example, in 2022, former British ** Sunak, Foreign Secretary Truss, and former Defense Secretary Mordaunt are vying for the post of prime minister. In the first four rounds of the campaign, Mordaunt voted second. On the eve of the fifth round of voting, Mordaunt began to think crookedly in order to surpass other competitors, and he changed his previous friendly attitude towards China and began to make tough remarks against China in an attempt to turn the situation around. However, because of the very different positions, Mordaunt's move backfired and became the first candidate to be eliminated. It really fulfilled the sentence that self-inflicted sins cannot live, and sins deserve it.
In the context of the previous US President Trump sparing no effort to restrain China, in recent years, the environment in the United States and even in the West has undergone drastic changes, especially the strong hostility of right-wing parties towards China has generally increased, and the Republican Party, a branch of the right-wing party, is no exception.
Judging by the current primary results, former Trump has the highest number of votes, followed by Florida Governor DeSanti, while Haley is behind the two. New Hampshire will have an intra-party caucus on the 23rd, and if Trump has been in the upper hand, the situation will be almost certain. The reason why Haley hyped up his hard-line attitude toward China was that he was already "exhausted."
Ironically, even if Haley had adopted this strategy, she would have ended up in the same fate as Mordaunt in Britain. Because the stance on China is not the primary concern of the American people, the immediate priority of the United States is how to get out of the current economic difficulties and alleviate the worsening social problems. As a former diplomat, Haley seems helpless on these issues concerning the American people, although as an American** does not have to be proficient in everything, Haley's background makes it difficult to convince the American people that she can turn the tide.
Haley's radical remarks before taking office, especially the use of the word "enemy", make us realize that there are more dangerous China hawks than Biden in the United States and Western political circles, especially in right-wing parties.
In recent years, the global economic downturn has led to the concentrated outbreak of internal and external problems in the United States and Western countries, leading to the collective emergence of right-wing forces. The 2022 US midterm elections ended with the Republican Party's victory over the House of Representatives, and in the same year's French ***, right-wing leader Le Pen narrowly missed Macron. Prime Minister Meloni, who won the Italian elections, is herself a representative of the far-right party. In addition, Germany's right-wing political parties are gradually becoming the largest political parties, and various international events reveal that the mountains and rains are not calm.