The United States and China, both of the world's largest economic powers, have long-standing economic ties with each other, but in recent years, the United States has been trying to "decouple" and try to disagree with China on the political, economic, and strategic levels.
After hyping up China's garlic as endangering U.S. national security, Biden's administration has set its sights on Chinese-made cranes. Biden believes that China's rise is a "threat" to the United States, and they plan to invest more than $20 billion in the next five years to replace the cranes built in China with a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsui Corporation in the United States. People can't help but wonder, do Americans really have that much money? If Zelensky is let know, he will definitely jump to his feet in anger.
So why is the United States so keen on China's "unbundling"?
Today, we will briefly talk about these three points.
Politically, Biden hopes to divert the focus of his internal conflict away from China by "decoupling" from China, inciting populism and nationalism, and making China a fierce enemy of the United States. Because the United States, fundamentally, revolves around voting. To achieve this, much of the policy of American politicians has focused on how to please their constituents. The U.S. policy environment toward China is getting worse and worse, and its "politically correct" attitude toward China is becoming more and more obvious. To put it mildly, now that the United States is running a campaign, politicians only need to shout about complete "decoupling" from China to attract attention and cheat the American people out of their votes. As for whether the forced implementation of "decoupling from China" will harm the interests of the United States, these people did not pay attention to it.
From this point of view, Biden's move is not only to win over the anti-China faction in the United States, but also to extricate the United States from its own incompetence and incompetence from its own economic recession and social turmoil.
From an economic point of view, Americans have long believed that the current prosperous China, with the United States dominating, benefits from the huge interests of the United States in terms of deficits, industrial hollowness, and technology transfer. Therefore, the Americans want to consolidate the United States' hegemonic position in the world through "decoupling", which can not only ensure the security of the domestic market, industry and technology of the United States, but also reduce "China's economic dependence."
Therefore, in the past two years, the United States has been happy to provoke one war after another against China. For example, imposing higher tariffs, such as banning the flow of goods, capital and people between China and the United States, such as unconditional suppression and sanctions on Chinese companies. The main purpose of the United States is to contain China's development on the one hand, and to protect American financial institutions on the other. I think the reason why Americans think this way is because their elites are not ready for China, so when China is getting stronger and stronger, they lose confidence.
At the strategic level, the United States regards China as its greatest strategic competitor and seeks to prevent China's rise and maintain its position as the world's hegemon. In order to exert pressure on China, the United States has adopted a number of measures, such as restricting China's export controls in high-tech fields, suppressing Chinese companies, and stripping the "Chinese element" from the technology industry chain. The United States has also frequently engaged in things in the Asia-Pacific hot spots, creating conflicts and conflicts in China's surrounding areas by increasing military deployments and exercises, in an attempt to prevent it from realizing the peaceful development and national reunification of the country. The reason why the United States is doing this is obvious: to maintain American hegemony in the world, but also to prevent China from playing a more important role in the world.
The economic cooperation between China and the United States is not only a "booster" but also a "ballast stone" for bilateral relations. However, if the Americans want to deviate from the normal track, we are not afraid, we will fight if we want, everyone will fight!