Huawei's new mobile phone Mate60Pro is not only popular in the field of electronic consumption, but also this "Sanction-Proof" mobile phone (Sanction-Proof) is also popular in the field of international politics.
Paul Triolo, a technology policy expert at Albright Stonebridge Group, said the phone release was "a major blow to Huawei's previous technology suppliers, mainly American companies." Even if the Mate60Pro is in some ways short of the most advanced smartphone models in the West, he said, it shows that it can still produce a pretty good product without American technology, which is of "great geopolitical significance."
Chris Miller, author of the best-selling book "The Chip Wars" and associate professor of international history at Tufts University's Fletcher School, believes that the targeted suppression of Huawei by the United States will not stop Huawei's pace of R&D and innovation, which will "intensify Washington's discussion about whether sanctions should continue to increase."
No matter how the Americans block it, Chinese companies will never stop.
Judging from the effect of technological suppression, blockade and control of China, Americans should also understand where they are wrong this time.
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The first thing Americans do wrong is to bring out the evil of state monopoly at every turn.
The essence of the "stuck neck" is a monopoly, and the ban on chips and technology blockade against China is a state monopoly carried out by the United States using its technological advantages. Enterprises engage in monopoly in order to obtain excess economic benefits, while the state engages in monopoly in order to monopolize advantages, enjoy exclusive results, and absolutely control the maximum political and economic interests.
Human society continues to develop and progress, and technology continues to innovate. Trying to stop this process is to go against the trend and in the end it can only be futile. In Western mythology, Prometheus, who steals fire, says this.
For example, in the container of the nuclear power plant that isolates high-pressure radioactive cooling water, there is an accessory called a C-ring, which must be made of tough memory metal. For many years, the United States had a monopoly on this technology. In particular, after China vigorously developed nuclear power in 2006, the United States used sealing rings to "jam the neck". China's nuclear power plants not only have to be used, but also have to endure annual price fluctuations, and even suffer from bundled sales, and they cannot buy seals without buying other American parts.
The reversal of the story takes place at a private company in China. This company, which used to be mainly engaged in pressure cooker sealing rings, did not believe in evil, and really developed sealing rings and installed them in Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in 2015. Facts have proved that the leakage of the American seal ring does not exceed 5 drops a year, and the leakage of the Chinese seal ring does not exceed 2 drops in 5 years.
The United States was in a hurry, again cutting prices, and talking about acquisitions, and as a result, it touched a nose of ashes. The price of Chinese products is less than one-tenth of the price of American products in the past, and they are completely independent innovation technology. How much money can be saved for the global energy industry alone?
This is just a small example. Under the US technological blockade, China has also independently developed "two bombs and one satellite", "Beidou", "Tiangong" ...
It's like a race where every athlete strives to improve their performance and push the sport to new heights. Now, though, an established athlete sees the advantage being shortened and begins to find ways to pull, pull, and even force other athletes not to run in shoes. What Americans did not expect was that competitors abruptly improved the perseverance and ability of barefoot running.
With their own monopoly and sanctions, the Americans are stunned in the field of technology to force out a "multipolar world"!
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The second thing Americans do wrong is the habitual tendency to faint out of short-term political necessity.
Many great European thinkers and strategists have discussed the same question, that is, what is the relationship between goals and means for a country?
The answer seems simple, the means should serve the goal, and the means should be constantly adjusted according to the goal. In practice, however, the United States often regards means as an end.
It stands to reason that the goal pursued by a government is to promote the well-being of the people, create a peaceful and prosperous external environment, and continuously expand the cake of national interests. Under this goal, politics is only a means. However, in the current political situation in the United States, politics is wrapped up in party strife, interest groups and populism, and politicians have long forgotten their goals, mistaken political victory as the goal, and even did not hesitate to damage the real goal that had long been forgotten.
Because of this, the US federal government does not hesitate to use national heavy weapons to disrupt the normal order of the industry and use national power to deal with companies like Huawei. Of course, the United States has a long history of this operation, Huawei before Alstom, Alstom before Toshiba. The reason for targeting these companies is only because they can win a little lip play on Capitol Hill, and these lip calls come from lawmakers who can't tell or deliberately can't distinguish between the Internet and WIFI.
China was mentioned dozens of times in the recent Republican presidential debate. On the way to exaggerating the so-called "China threat", these opponents seem to have reached a rare agreement. Why? The political needs of the campaign, of course.
"I'm not surprised, but I'm disappointed." Alan Knights, a supporter of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said: "For the Republican Party, China is important. They continue to confuse and blame China, rather than focusing on what can be done to improve the United States. Although the candidates see China as a problem, it is not something that the people should care about. ”
The famous international political economist Susan Strange provides an analytical framework in Power Diaspora, and when looking at an event, the central question to be answered is "who benefits". Therefore, the trick of attracting water, creating imaginary enemies, and diverting attention, is this set of games helping American politicians or the American people?
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The third thing Americans do wrong is to always want to stand on the moral high ground and give orders.
Bloomberg partnered with TechInsights, a U.S. technology consulting agency, to disassemble a new Huawei mobile phone, proving that it uses a 7-nanometer chip independently developed by China, which is a high-end product that the United States does not allow companies to export to China. What is the concept of 7nm? The thickness of a piece of paper is about 100,000 nanometers. That is, the circuit on this chip is an order of magnitude thinner than the face of some countries.
In stark contrast, the United States always wants to point out the faces of other countries. In the "creation myth" of the United States, there are allusions to "the city on the top of a mountain" and "the destiny of heaven". The "city on a hill" comes from religion, and early immigrants in the United States invoked this concept, saying that the United States is a model in the world and should be "admired by all"; "Manifest destiny" is a concept used by the United States to find a reasonable basis for the annexation of Texas.
This was in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it was enough to cheer up the people; In the current United States, some people really set up a "beacon", judging other countries with a discourse system that conforms to American interests and populism, and even applying this logic to science and technology: China's possession of advanced technology is a threat to the United States, which not only challenges the industrial advantages of some American companies, but also challenges the national security of the United States.
As someone with a small heart, I can't help but wonder that perhaps the United States feels that Chinese does not deserve advanced technology. Although it is a belly slander, it turns out like this.
Considering that Huawei was previously accused of having business ties with Iran and was suppressed as a result, the reason why the United States has received certain domestic support for this approach is that it really stems from a vain sense of moral superiority.
American scholar John Mearsheimer analyzed in the book "The Great Fantasy: The Liberal Dream and International Reality" that after the end of the Cold War, the United States ushered in a unipolar system unprecedented in world history, and began to pursue hegemonic politics and "shape the world according to the intentions of the United States." As a result, the United States became a foreign conquest, transforming other countries according to its own needs. And China, in the eyes of the United States, stands in the way of the United States.
Civilizations should be pluralistic, and the world should be multipolar. The beauty of each is the beauty of the beauty, the beauty of the beauty, the beauty of the world. This simple and sincere emotion is not difficult to understand. Because of this, Foreign Policy magazine published an article in May this year saying that the Biden administration is trying to establish a unipolar order that no longer exists, which is unpopular and worries allies.
The article was titled: "The United States is too afraid of a multipolar world." ”
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The hot summer is coming to an end.
The open letter led by Stanford physics professors Steven Kiverson and Peter Michelson was signed by more than 1,000 American scientists, calling for the renewal of the Sino-US Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement. The letter said that academic research at the university "is neither proprietary nor involves confidential information"; Basic research at American universities "should be published" and "should not be kept secret."
Scientists are the smartest and most rigorous group of people, and they are also the group of people who can best understand the principle that human development needs to learn from each other and support each other. The American scientist put it this way: "The United States should renew the agreement, not because China wants to renew it, but because it is in the best interests of the United States." ”
The U.S. government is right to safeguard national interests, but it should not mistake harming the interests of other countries as safeguarding national interests. With the Mate60Pro, the United States should realize that suppressing China with technology has never succeeded and will not succeed.
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