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Why does the United States always cling to China?
What did China do to make the United States so targeted?
Just when everyone was puzzled by this, Martin Jacques, a British scholar of international relations, gave us a new idea:
The reason why the United States always targets China is because China has committed the "original sin".In **religion, original sin is an innate sin of human beings.
But what "original sin" can China have?
What did he mean by that?
Martin Jacques is an internationally renowned scholar who has studied international relations for a long time.
Especially since 1977, when he became the editor of the magazine of the Communist Party of Britain, he began to study China.
He has traveled to China many times for exchanges and held lectures, and it can be said that he has witnessed China's great leap from poverty to prosperity along the way.
In an interview during China's Boao Forum for Asia in April 2023, he said that China would be a big country very different from the United States.
The reason is simple.
In a short period of time, China has made achievements that have surpassed the world average and imagination.
In the past 40 years, 800 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty, more than the rest of the world combined.
A country of 1.4 billion people has become the world's second largest economy.
And, since 2007, our country has become the largest contributor to global growth.
In response to the United States' relentless pursuit of China in recent years, he made even more astonishing remarks and put forward the "theory of original sin."
He said that it is precisely because China has committed the original sin that it will be targeted by the United States.
The so-called "original sin" refers to China's impact on the US-led world order.
Even if you don't want to, a great power with a population of 1.4 billion, modernizing in all directions, and growing its international standing makes the United States feel deeply that its interests have been undermined.
Therefore, the United States has always suppressed China to maintain its dominant position.
This is the practice of "binary opposition" in the United States.
In the eyes of those who have always exercised hegemonism, they have long been accustomed to only competition and games, and they cannot see the opportunity for cooperation.
History proves that before China, several large countries have become "tigers with sharp teeth removed".
After World War I in 1918, the United States was thinking about how to squeeze Britain out of the world's leading position.
In this way, they took advantage of the great loss of British vitality in the two world wars, and sent supplies, arms, and economic aid.
However, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
After the war, the United States, with a British IOU in one hand and a number of British overseas bases and investments in the other, shook its celebratory glass and turned its attention to the Soviet Union.
In 1947, the Cold War began.
At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in-for-tat confrontation in the political, economic, military, and cultural fields.
The United States continued to wear down the Soviet Union, and finally broke the foundation of the enemy's faith without bloodshed.
By this time, it didn't matter whether the Soviet Union disintegrated or not, because the United States had new prey.
The United States, which is well versed in raising tigers, used only one Plaza Accord (1985) to bring Japan back to its original shape in the 80s of the last century, when Japan became the world's second economy.
Later, in order to curb the euro, the United States began a new round of hegemonic conquest.
They launched the Kosovo War, the Iraq War, the European debt crisis, and the Brexit Crisis.
History proves that there are no enemies, and the United States has to create enemies.
Because they are the ones who made their fortunes by exploiting and plundering, they naturally don't believe in win-win cooperation.
In this way, the enemy will not be destroyed at all, and anyone can be a potential threat.
Eventually, after the European Union, China became a thorn in the side of the United States.
To paraphrase the Internet terminology, our situation today is "people sit at home, and the pot comes from the sky".
We have built our country from the ashes, struggled to break through the international blockade to develop industry and national defense, and endured humiliation and heavy burdens to carry out development in the face of the threat of hegemony.
All these hard work has become the "original sin" in the eyes of the United States.
They even spread rumors about the "China threat theory."
As everyone knows, who is responsible for all our suffering?
The face of the hegemon is too ugly.
Throughout history, the United States has suppressed China many times.
If China is targeted now, it will be the "original sin" to challenge the dominance of the United States.
So, what were our previous sins?
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States immediately blockaded China and the two sides of the strait.
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, they were unwilling to formulate a nuclear strike plan against China.
In the first 20 years or so, our development was hampered by the suppression of the United States.
If China has to be accused of a crime, it is that China is not "its own people".
After all, before the founding of New China, the United States had always supported the Chiang Kai-shek regime.
Because it is easier for them to reach an ideological consensus.
As a matter of fact, the War of Liberation was in decline, and the United States also expressed its intention to win over our party.
They traded aid for US privileges in China, allowing us to recruit "democrats" into politics extensively.
But it is witty as *** how because of the sugar-coated shells in front of the United States, the future of the revolution has been shaken.
It was only when the United States, which was rejected, became angry and had the ugly idea that "since it cannot be its own person, it is an enemy that must be destroyed."
The implication is that our country is not on the same capitalist path as the West, which is what they see as the "original sin" and a challenge in the ideological field.
As the leader of the capitalist camp, the United States naturally wants to plant the banner of "freedom and democracy" all over the world.
This is also an important reason for the-for-tat confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -- the conflict between the ideas of capitalism and proletarian socialism.
The American way of thinking is so extreme and unreasonable.
Even if China and the United States broke the ice and established diplomatic relations in the 70s, there was a honeymoon period of ten years, but it was only out of the need to counter the Soviet Union.
In 1969, after the Battle of Zhenbao Island, China and the Soviet Union completely tore their faces.
This has given the United States a once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity.
After all, improving relations with China at that time could prevent the Soviet Union from crushing China and then controlling Asia, and it could also stimulate the Soviet Union to further suppress China and reduce friction with the United States.
Kill two birds with one stone, why not.
After Sino-US relations improved, the United States also attempted to "Westernize" China.
They take it for granted that if China wants to achieve the four modernizations, it will have to rely on Western technology and institutions.
* In the 10s, China was suffering from internal and external troubles, and the United States was even convinced that China would inevitably embark on the road of capitalism.
However, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, but China embarked on a path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
This also means that the assimilation of the United States has completely failed.
In a fit of rage, they turned around and created the Yinhe Incident (1993), the Taiwan Strait Crisis (1996), and the "accidental bombing" of the Chinese Embassy (1999).
At that time, China was at the juncture of reform and opening up.
We chose to hold back, chase after us, and then prove that we can soar into the sky without taking the capitalist road.
On the other hand, China's neighbors are Japan and South Korea.
They advocate capitalism, and they always say that only an advanced capitalist system can strengthen a country's economy.
As everyone knows, the United States is only upgrading to financial capital and transferring low-end industries to the past, so that their economy has taken off.
After China joined the WTO in 2001, it also undertook the industrial chain of developed countries, and it took off and even flew higher.
In the economic crisis of 2008, the West was generally hit hard, but China became the mainstay and bailed out the United States.
Two years later, China's GDP surpassed Japan's to become the world's second-largest economy, even overtaking the United States in 2014.
China has delivered a high-scoring answer that has surprised the West, and it can succeed on its own path.
Europe and the United States can hardly tolerate a non-Western system country becoming bigger and stronger, and even threatening the position of the United States.
In 2011, Obama proposed a "pivot to the Asia-Pacific strategy" and has since gradually contained China in all aspects.
We rise up against hegemony and against an unfair order.
And this has become a new "crime".
For a long time, China has been stereotyped internationally as a "low-end world factory".
It's a flaw, but it's also the driving force behind us.
I don't know when China has gradually entered the high-end market, and some of China's scientific and technological levels have unconsciously led the world.
Since Trump launched the ** war in 2018, the United States has suppressed China and blocked technology.
But after a few moments, we are still standing and even stronger.
The United States conducted dumping and antidumping investigations against us, and China filed a case against the United States for antidumping propionic acid, so that American enterprises could no longer monopolize the market.
The United States restricts China's communications, and we have more than 2 million 5G base stations all over the world.
Today, the vast majority of EU members have 5G networks covered by China.
When the United States sanctioned Chinese chips, we censored, banned the sale of Micron, and expelled it from the Chinese market.
At the same time, its own industrial silicon has caught up, with an output of more than 80% of the world's total output, and Yangtze River Storage, which has been suppressed for a long time, has also achieved "anti-encirclement and suppression".
The more suppressed, the more aggressive, and the result of the war is that the United States is still dependent on Chinese exports.
We are also working overtime to upgrade and reform industries in the "spur" of the United States.
Now is no longer the time when the United States relies on its technological superiority to make money from China.
We have implemented reverse output.
Four years ago, China's exports of technology products accounted for 23 percent of the world's total9%, which is only 1 less than the United States8%。
And our R&D spending is $468 billion, $139.5 billion less than the United States.
The conclusion of this comparison is that China is more profitable.
This is still a few years ago, and with this momentum, it is no wonder that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will overtake the United States in 2049.
It is no wonder that Martin Jacques has called for much that the West can learn from China's governance.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is super or not, what China values is development.
Strength does not mean plunder, but also peaceful rise and win-win interests.
This is China's consistent attitude, but the United States does not believe it and regards our resistance as a provocation.
In the eyes of the United States, our struggle for hegemony has become "one mistake after another."
I wonder when the United States will realize that their real adversaries have never been China or Russia, but themselves.
References. Global Network "British scholar Martin Jacques: China will be a great power very different from the United States".
Li Wei. American hegemony and the future of its order[J].Journal of International Politics,2023,44(06):30-53+5-6
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