Today, in the 21st century, when we once again mention the term American free-market economy, it may elicit a deep laugh. It would be a farce to say that the United States still supports a free market economy.
In fact, the questioning and denial of this economic belief has long come from the deep reflection of the United States.
So,Although the free market economy may seem to be full of attractive charm on the surface, is there really a big problem? Is the United States in the current situation the result of the backlash of the liberal economic strategy of commercial globalization?
America's industrial base is being hollowed out, and manufacturing is becoming alienated.
All industries and jobs, even the tight-knit chains, have been transferred overseas in the nominal pursuit of market efficiency.
As a result, the United States is facing a new situation and dilemma in terms of geography and security.
Many countries that have been relied on by the European and American economies in the past are now being used as levers or tools to advance their economic or geopolitical goals.
This economic dependence on the globalized free market has put the United States in a dilemma and spurred the difficulties of the climate and clean energy transition.
Instead of promoting the transition to climate and clean energy, globalization and marketization have made it more difficult?
Pervasive inequality and the growing gap between rich and poor pose new challenges to the development of "people-owned" development in the United States.
Many of the free-market economies that we praise and admire, and even the free-market economic ideas that are admired by a large number of our economists and intellectuals, have been denied by the American elite, which claims to be the beacon of free-market economics.
If we look closely at this phenomenon, we will find that the American elites have given the answer to the question of the long term that they will not pursue a globalized liberal economic policy.
Many people in China still fantasize about compromising with the United States and restoring the previous Sino-US relations, but all this has been closed by the Americans themselves. The United States began to shift to a "planned market economy" and began large-scale domestic substitution. No matter how much we try to change, it won't help.
We have come to understand that the United States despises China not because of its negation of China, but because of its rejection of the liberal economic policies of the past decades, of the way it made money in the past. Their rejection of the blind pursuit of liberal economic policies and their disdain for the previous ways of making money have been elevated to the level of national functioning.
Therefore, the challenges we face today are not just the risks at the tail end of the global economic cycle, not only the long-term impact of the pandemic, not only the demographic problem, not only the great power strategy, but also the operation model of the United States trying to restructure the global economic order.
Decades of lifestyle and ways of making money, Americans want to overturn them one by one, redefine them all, even at any cost. And this redefinition is the top-level design of the American elites.
For the first time since World War II, the United States, the powerful empire, wants to reshape global rules and operating systems.
This shows what we often say"Great power game"And not accurately, in fact, the basic logic of the times is not the competition between the great powers, but the reconstruction of the imperial order.
Any force that tries to stop this trend, the United States will resolutely destroy.
The major powers are also beginning to realize the new strategy of the United States - "values**", that is, to replace the globalization of the past with "values**". This means that which country you do business with is more important than the business itself.
In the process of promoting the new order, the United States has deeply absorbed elements of China's industrial policy, which they agree with and openly express.
In essence, the United States is no longer negating China, but repudiating the economic civilization accumulated over the past few decades, negating the means of profiting in the past, and even escalating it to the national level.
Therefore, the challenges we face today are not only the risks of the late stages of the global economic cycle, not only the long-term effects of the epidemic, not only demographic problems, not just the great power game, but also the mode of operation that the United States hopes to reshape the global economic order.
The transformation of the United States has greatly shaped the development of the global economy.
Their promotion and practice of free market economy on a global scale has created many enterprises that have won in market competition, but also brought a series of problems such as social injustice and environmental pollution.
And now, due to the development of the global economy and the pressure in the United States, the United States has begun to turn the first degree, trying to explore a new path by reshaping the global economic order. This will undoubtedly have far-reaching implications not only for the United States itself, but also for many countries around the world.
How will the world develop in the future? Will the United States really succeed in building a new global order that benefits itself? These are all questions that deserve our in-depth consideration.
At the same time, we should also realize that although the United States has strong economic strength, if it cannot properly deal with its own problems, such as serious social inequality and environmental pollution, then they will also face difficulties and challenges.
Therefore, for us, in addition to in-depth research and understanding of the changes in the United States, we must also have a clear understanding of our own development in order to find our own position in the new global order.