Although China has never wanted to have a conflict with the United States, the United States regards blockade and suppression of China as their most important thing, and the two US administrations have no moral bottom line in attacking China.
From the beginning of the trade war, with tariffs on thousands of products from China, to the later technology war.
The fact that Chinese high-tech enterprises are not allowed to cooperate with US enterprises, and that Chinese scientists and technologists are not allowed to communicate with American scientists, shows that the United States is afraid of China's scientific and technological development.
However, the United States has used almost all the means they can think of, as well as the methods used on the Soviets in the past, to China, but it still has not had much impact on China, because China is much more resilient than the United States imagined.
After all, China is deeply integrated into the international system, and even the United States itself maintains close cooperation with China. The United States cannot decouple from China, let alone other third countries.
But the U.S. side is not willing to give up the blockade of China easily, so what we can see is that the U.S. has changed its tactics now, but China also has a way to deal with it.
First, the United States is changing its tactics
Now the United States is further strengthening the blockade against China, of course, the current blockade is not just relying on the United States itself, but also taking allies to attack China, so that the European Union and Japan also participate in the comprehensive sanctions against China.
In a way, this is a replica of the Obama administration's economic blockade strategy against China.
When Obama was president, he was deeply aware that China's most valuable thing is actually foreign trade, because the mainland itself is a trading country.
If the United States can push China out of the international trading system, it will have a huge impact on our economy. So at that time, Obama was ready to engage in the Pacific Rim Economic Cooperation agreement.
And in this agreement, he is not ready to play with China, to put it bluntly, he will not allow China to engage in trade cooperation with Pacific countries.
Once Obama's plan is realized, it means that the United States will pull most of the Pacific countries to carry out a strategic blockade against China, and we will be very passive.
Later, Trump came to power and withdrew from the group, and engaged in the so-called America First strategy, and Trump even wanted to fully shrink the front back to the United States.
Objectively speaking, Trump did launch a trade war against the mainland, but some of his extreme measures also broke the blockade strategy against China when the Democratic Party was in power.
And now, the Americans are ready to pick up the previous blockade measures again and continue to confront China. This is also because it is still the Democratic government that is in power now.
Democratic President Joe Biden was Obama's vice president before, so he has a deep understanding of Obama's strategy.
Maybe he was involved in the formulation of the containment and blockade policy against China that year, so it is reasonable that Biden will restart Obama's set.
Biden is now imposing 100% high tariffs on new energy vehicles from China, just to lock in the future of China's new energy vehicles. Under the influence of the United States, the European Union has also introduced a targeted strategy to impose additional tariffs on China's new energy vehicles.
It can be said that the US blockade line against China has been preliminarily completed. And the United States has indeed relied on its influence on European countries to tie some European countries to its chariot and let them confront China, which is to unite its allies to completely isolate China.
And the United States also knows that some of their allies are also important to China, such as Europe, which is also one of China's important foreign trade partners.
If Europe fully turns to the United States and stops trade cooperation with China, it may indeed have some adverse economic impacts. Therefore, this round of blockade in the United States is still very targeted.
This is even an upgraded and intensified version of the Obama era's policy of squeezing out China, but the problem is that the United States seems to ignore that the situation is very different from that of the past.
Second, China sacrificed its trump card
In response to the US blockade and suppression strategy, China has also directly taken out its trump card.
Many people think that we can only sell US dollar debt in the face of the US blockade and suppression, after all, China is the second largest holder of US bonds, and we can still have an impact on the US economy by selling US bonds.
But the problem is that the large-scale sell-off of US bonds is also likely to have a negative impact on China, and if the US debt system collapses early, the hundreds of billions of US bonds we hold in our hands will also become waste paper.
Moreover, it is not possible to sell only US bonds forever, so China's countermeasures against the US are actually more advanced.
According to news reports, the mainland has announced that it will conduct a comprehensive investigation into 12 executives from 12 U.S. military companies and related companies, and it will be very difficult for these companies to cooperate with China in the future. And this has a great impact on the United States.
Although many arms companies in the United States do not have much commercial share in China, after all, China is a big arms country, and we can build many weapons ourselves. But that doesn't mean these companies don't value the Chinese market.
China is a big resource country, and many of the resources we produce are also very important to these American arms companies, such as rare earth resources.
This resource is necessary for the production of all kinds of advanced weapons, including radar.
And the mainland almost controls the global rare earth trade, because China is the main producer and purifier of rare earths, and even the United States is buying large quantities of Chinese rare earths.
At the same time, many U.S. arms companies are actually buying weapons parts from China. Including Lockheed Martin, which produces F35 fighters.
Because China's manufacturing industry is perfect, and the United States itself has already deindustrialized early. If they don't want to find a way to buy parts from China, they won't even be able to build weapons.
Therefore, China's countermeasures still have a great impact on the United States, and even China's countermeasures will make the United States break its defenses.
China has also taken action against America's allies, for example, in Europe.
Europe will cooperate with the United States to impose tariffs on China's new energy vehicles. A month after the news broke, China took two rounds of countermeasures.
The first round of countermeasures is likely to stop or reduce the import of pork products and pork by-products from Europe, which will have a great impact on European countries.
Because China is the main consumer of agricultural products, we did buy a lot of European pork products when Sino-European relations were relatively stable.
And China dares to do so because we have alternative trading partners. Instead of buying pigs from Europe, we can also buy pigs from third countries, such as Russia.
Therefore, in the face of the blockade by the United States and Western countries, China is now inclined to engage in reciprocal countermeasures. In other words, whatever kind of blockade the United States and Western countries are engaged in, we will adopt what kind of counterattack.
Anyway, in the end, the United States and European countries can't stand it first, after all, there are many countries that are willing to cooperate with China. But there is no second market in the world that can undertake a large number of their products.
Third, China does not need to be afraid of Sino-US competition
From an objective point of view, the United States is certainly stronger in terms of overall national strength now.
The United States still has advantages in science and technology, weapons reserves, and financial hegemony and huge global influence.
But China is not easy to bully, and in the past half century, China has made great progress, and our influence has grown further economically, strategically, and even more.
The United States has not locked China with all its might, and the United States does not dare to go to war with China at all.
If it had been a few decades ago, when the United States had absolute military superiority in the face of China, and they saw China as a threat, the United States would have taken action against China a long time ago, instead of only using all kinds of shady tricks to deal with China as it does now.
The fact that the United States is engaged in an economic, strategic, and scientific and technological blockade against us can only prove that it also knows that if it wants to go to war with China, the US military will not necessarily be able to win the war.
Moreover, China is now resisting the suppression of the United States and Western countries, and continues to develop and complete the upgrading of its own industrial line. Even China has achieved breakthroughs on some key foundations, such as chips, semiconductor technology, new energy technology, and so on.
The United States and its allies no longer have the same power advantage over China as before, and even China's rapid development has almost completely wiped out the advantages of the United States and Western countries.
That's why the United States is so anxious to do everything against China, using all means, and even now it has to take its allies to attack China, but this is meaningless.
At least now China is still moving forward, once China completes the upgrading of the industrial chain, completes the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and completely gets rid of the situation of being stuck by the United States and Western countries, then the United States has nothing to do, because its financial hegemony has very limited influence on China.
The longer it drags on, the stronger China's power will be, and the weaker the power of the United States will be. All we have to do now is wait and wait for the day when we will win this game.
epilogue
Now the United States has imposed further sanctions on China, but then China has taken stronger countermeasures, which has also put the United States under pressure, which is also evidence of China's rapid rise.
If we push back the clock by a decade or twenty, we may not be able to respond so effectively to the blockade and suppression from the United States, let alone launch a counterattack. The fact that China is still able to fight back proves that we certainly have the power to spare.
Therefore, the United States really has to think about how to handle Sino-US relations in the future. Maintaining confrontation with China will end up with the United States paying more for it.
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