Recently, US Ambassador to Japan Emanuel, who is in Japan and has a heart in China, once again made a big deal of remarks about China, giving the United States Government two bad ideas, cutting off food and energy supplies, and threatening to make China "think twice" before acting.
According to the Observer Network, a few days ago, United States Bloomberg TV released a video of an interview with Emmanuel, in which the United States ambassador, who often points out Sino-US relations, once again made surprising remarks, slandering China's current economic leadership through "deception", and claiming to integrate the Chinese and Western systems, and in order for China to accept "norms", that is, to listen to United States, it is necessary to carry out so-called "deterrence" against China.
As for how deterrence should be implemented, he mentioned two aspects: food security and maritime energy security. Objectively speaking, these two factors are enough to shake the foundation of the country in any country. Food is one of the basic needs of human beings, the foundation of social stability and development, and an important part of the national economy, which is inseparable from national security. Offshore energy is of overall and strategic significance to the country's economic and social development.
What Emanuel pointed out is indeed China's "lifeline", but the means of attack he proposed are very pediatric. He pointed out that as long as China does not have enough food, there will be chaos in the country. In his view, China does not have the ability to provide enough food for Chinese people and production, and the space for agricultural development is "much worse" than that of developed space.
In recent years, international hot spots have occurred frequently, Ukraine as a European granary due to war reduced production, world grain reserves fell to the lowest point in 30 years, global food prices soared, more than 30 countries broke out food crisis, the West is particularly worried about this problem, Emanuel pushed himself and others, thinking that China also has the same concern.
In recent years, the mainland has been firmly grasping the security of grain production, strictly abiding by the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, and achieving a self-sufficiency rate of more than 100 percent in rations and more than 95 percent in grains. Even if one day Europe and the United States run out of food, China will not lack this stuttering.
On energy supplies, Emmanuel is equally naïve to believe that the United States Navy can undermine China's energy security in the maritime domain. He had some truth in that. More than 90% of the mainland's oil imports are transported by sea, most of which have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca, in recent years, with further exploration, offshore oil and gas production has also become an important part of the mainland's energy development, but the mainland's maritime security environment is not optimistic, since the Biden administration took office, the United States, Japan, the Philippines and other countries have joined hands to strengthen the construction of the "first island chain", forming an encirclement and blocking trend on the mainland, and China's marine energy development and maritime trade are threatened.
In recent years, China has vigorously developed its naval forces to build the world's largest navy, and the mainland has also ushered in its first defense minister with a naval background, which shows that the country attaches great importance to the safety of maritime lines of communication. It can be said that these two big proposals made by Emmanuel are outright nonsense.
Although it was nonsense, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, still countered the US army. Emmanuel's scenario for "deterring" China is that the moderator argues that "isolating China is unrealistic given the size of China's economy." A few days ago, Xie Feng accepted an exclusive interview with United States' Newsweek, in which he pointed out that not only is "decoupling" unrealistic, but United States needs to take a ride on China.
Xie Feng said that China is not only the "factory of the world", but also the "world market"; Not only "Made in China", but also "Made in China", which is an important engine of global economic growth, as well as a rare value depression and investment highland. This is not China's boast, the IMF's latest report also raised its forecast for China's economic growth and affirmed that China will play a leading role in the global economic recovery. On the other hand, the United States has recently seen signs of economic recession, and what the United States needs to think about is not how to "decouple" from China, but whether it can "decouple" from China.