On April 8, local time, some politicians in the United States who were afraid of chaos in the world once again threw out crazy plans. Senator Menendez and others have proposed a proposal called the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which requires the U.S. government to engage in comprehensive "strategic competition" with China.
This so-called strategic competition is to mobilize all strategic, economic and diplomatic tools to counter China, which means that this proposal will change the previous policy of "competition when it is competition, cooperation when it is cooperation", which is the policy of "competition when it is competition, cooperation when it is cooperation", thus shifting to the rhythm of all-round confrontation.
Many experts have expressed strong opposition to this, believing that this proposition is pushing the United States in the wrong direction and is very dangerous. They argue that what the United States should do is not intervene in other countries, but focus on solving its own problems.
Menendez's 283-page competition bill is about China. Lawmakers claim that the bill has gained bipartisan support, an important bill that will ensure that the United States can compete with China in all aspects of the next few decades.
In fact, this is a rare bill that uses all-round competition as a slogan and has the support of both parties. In fact, before some extreme politicians introduced the bill, the US government had begun to strengthen its strength in some areas, intending to compete with China.
First of all, it is the US government that has spent two trillion US dollars on infrastructure. The whole united States is confident in this grand infrastructure plan, which they believe can revitalize the American working class and if the American working class is revived, then the United States can use it to defeat China.
Secondly, the United States has co-opted Japan and South Korea, ready to do a big job in the chip industry, not only to monopolize chip design, but even to transfer global chip production capacity back to the United States to enhance the competitiveness of the United States. In the middle of this month, the United States will invite the world's major semiconductor manufacturers to a meeting, forcing them to contribute to the U.S. semiconductor supply chain plan and increase control over China's chip industry.
The United States has sensed the crisis and has begun to use all kinds of despicable means to encircle and intercept China. The proposal made by Lawmaker Menendez is only one step further than the previous actions of the US government. Some media believe that this is to strengthen the "comprehensive strategic competition" with China. Some media outlets want to send another signal that the two parties in the United States are united, at least in terms of China. Predictably, the proposal will receive little resistance when voted on the Senate.
Why did the President of the United States immediately send out the signal of competition and cooperation, and then such a tough policy appeared in Congress? This shows that in the United States, there are also some differences between the president and Congress. The danger is that the conservative forces represented by the Congress are slowly occupying the high ground, and it may not be long before there will be waves of crazier policies.
In this regard, Singapore's former representative to the United Nations, Mahbubani, wrote that Trump set off a trade war with great fanfare and finally failed, which shows that the United States did not gain half of the benefits. If the U.S. government continues Trump's old path, the United States will go to disaster.
On the 9th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a press conference that China expressed its firm opposition to the relevant bills proposed by relevant parliamentarians, and China is committed to developing a relationship of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation with the United States, and will continue to firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests.
According to the latest news, the review date of this "competition bill" has been postponed from the original April 14 to the 21st. This shows that the United States is not monolithic internally. First of all, all-round competition will inevitably seriously damage Sino-US relations, on the other hand, even if it competes with China, it will not solve the mess in the United States.
There is only one way to solve the problem, that is, China must continue to develop and steadily increase its own strength, so that the balance of strength is not so large. Only by letting the United States know that confrontation is not advisable will those arrogant and crazy politicians take the initiative to sit down and talk to us.