Historical"Boomerang": The Western self is "stuck in the neck".
Since the beginning of the Cold War, Western countries have established the "Paris Coordinating Committee", which is responsible for finding the neck of China, have you heard this story? Now, if you are lucky, you have witnessed this history with your own eyes: the West has stuck its own neck, how to explain this scene?
According to the Global Times, the European Union ** Breton revealed in an interview that France is currently facing a crisis in the production of ammunition missiles because of the serious shortage of gunpowder. He did not say it explicitly, but we can speculate that this is not a deliberate "cut-off" of supplies by China, but that the EU itself has taken the initiative to ban this raw material.
Nitrocellulose, commonly known as "fire cotton", which is needed to make ammunition missiles, is an important industrial raw material, and its production requires certain technology and can lead to environmental pollution. In recent years, Europe has been in a state of peace and stability, cotton production is no longer profitable, and local companies have either moved to other countries or simply closed their doors. However, the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war has made Europe urgently need a large amount of ammunition, and they do not have their own cotton production plant, so they can only import large quantities from China, which can be described as a dilemma.
To add insult to injury, the European Union last year banned imports of so-called "Xinjiang cotton" from China, 90 percent of which is made from Xinjiang cotton, a ban that directly blocked their access to Chinese cotton. And those who took the lead in pushing for this ban are now complaining about the "cut off supply" of Chinese cotton wool, do they realize that they are actually stuck in Europe's neck?
The intensification of the Russian-Ukrainian war has caused Ukraine's demand for Western ammunition to skyrocket, while Europe can only watch its own gunpowder stocks being depleted. The 1 million artillery shells promised by the EU to Ukraine are actually only 300,000 rounds, and this year China directly "cut off" the supply of raw materials, how much leverage can Europe have if it wants to continue to produce artillery shells?
This phenomenon was jokingly dubbed "boomerang" by netizens, and the policies thrown by the West eventually turned against themselves. For several years, they have used various sanctions policies to contain China, but now they are frequently hit by these policies. For example, the United States sanctioned China by means of a chip embargo, but the chips it produced could not be sold and fell into a predicament; For another example, the West restricts China's industrial development with environmental protection and carbon emissions, but now that China's technology has led the world, Europe itself has begun to promote a large number of fuel vehicles. Coupled with the problem of the supply of cotton wool this time, it can be said that the "boomerang" thrown by the West against China finally hit itself.
In short, the world is now an economic whole, with a deepening degree of integration. And the old practice of containing a country through blockade sanctions no longer works. Europe wants to contain China by "stucking its neck", but it can only hurt itself.