"The biggest source of the sino-US conflict is the rise of China. China's economy is stronger and its military is stronger, which is hurting many interests of the United States and other countries. Lu Bobin, a scholar at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, once said so.
Lu Bobin's remarks undoubtedly broke the mystery of the Sino-US conflict. The reason why the Biden administration is targeting China everywhere is to curb China's development. The United States can no longer maintain a normal cooperative relationship with China, because the United States has found that China's strong self has played a great role in helping.
China's rapid rise has threatened the United States, as if the king of the hundred beasts is in his twilight years, and lions are stronger than themselves. Therefore, the United States must contain China's development, otherwise its hegemony is likely to be shaken.
Because of the difference in concepts, the conflict between China and the United States is almost irreconcilable. The most important factor in the Sino-US conflict is the collapse of the US mentality. To be sure, any country has the right to develop and grow itself, but that may be a sin in the world today.
The United States unilaterally believes that China's rise is destined to harm the vested interests of the United States and other Western countries, and in order to protect its own country, they have carried out all-round suppression of China. For example, in the G7 national conference led by the United States, many agreements were reached that were unfavorable to China.
If this trend continues, the situation facing China in the future will only become more complicated. The United States is unlikely to abandon its stranglehold on China in the process, unless China has developed to a point where it is significantly stronger than the United States, and at that time the United States will not have the strength to fight with China even if it has ideas.
But these are the narrow ideas of Western countries, and China has stressed many times that China's development is not to contain any country, and our development is only to surpass ourselves and promote world peace and development.
In the past, the United States and the Soviet Union had formed a bipolar pattern when they competed for hegemony, but under the flicker of western countries, the Soviet Union finally disintegrated, and although the United States was still a world power, it was no longer as strong as before. Even now there is a relatively large difference between the United States and Russia, which has sold most of its dollar assets, which is obviously aimed at the behavior of the United States, and the international statements of the two countries are also tit-for-tat.
Now the most important thing for China is to maintain its own plans and direction, and not to be easily fooled by Western countries. The mentality of the United States now is not to touch China's bottom line, otherwise China will inevitably strike thunder. China's modern history is a history of blood and tears, the Chinese army is not afraid of any country in the world that provokes for no reason, and the performance of the Chinese army in Vietnam and North Korea is believed to shock the whole world.
China has the right and determination to defend its own territory and development, and if the United States crosses the red line, then China will inevitably let it pay the price. In July last year, China's embassy in Houston was announced by the United States to close, which was the initiative of the United States to attack China and led to a sharp turn in Sino-US relations. America's hostility toward China did not begin last year, but lasted throughout the history of New China.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the United States supported the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Taiwan to split new China, when the economy, politics, and military of New China were all attacked by the United States in an all-round way, and the United States had many very obvious incidents against China in China's history, the first of which was the Galaxy incident, which was a transport ship affiliated with a Chinese transportation company, responsible for the transportation route from Tianjin to Kuwait, but the United States made a baseless accusation that the Galaxy delivered chemical weapons to Iran. And use this as a reason to impose sanctions on China.
During this period, the United States sent military forces to besiege the Galaxy for 3 weeks. The Galaxy's fixed route is from Asia to the Middle East, which can carry more than 600 containers, and the United States has obtained reliable intelligence that "China transports chemical raw materials to Iran", and then the Galaxy has been searched and processed by Saudi and American personnel.
However, after several days of careful inspection, no so-called chemical raw materials were found in the more than six hundred containers of the Galaxy. After the matter was clarified, the Galaxy had been stranded at sea for more than a month, which seriously delayed the commercial activities of the Galaxy and harmed the lives and safety of the Chinese crew and staff.
In the 1990s, the United States also used ground drills to bomb Our embassy in Yugoslavia, causing many casualties and turning the embassy into ruins, which made the Chinese side very angry, and the United States provoked China militarily for no reason, and a reasonable explanation must be given. As a result, the reason given by the US side was that the US driver blew up the wrong target, which was simply shameless.
It is worth noting that at that time, there were rumors that the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia had the wreckage of a US F-117 stealth fighter with the most advanced technology in the United States, so there was also a voice that believed that the US military took military action to prevent China from acquiring their aircraft technology.
Later, the US side made financial compensation and apologies to the families of the Chinese victims, and finally the relations between the two sides slowly eased. At the beginning of the 21st century, another major event occurred, that is, the Sino-US plane collision incident in the South China Sea. At that time, China found the Us reconnaissance plane circling over the South China Sea and intercepted it according to the requirements of its superiors, but during the interception, there was a collision incident, which caused the Chinese pilot to be forced to parachute, which was later identified as a sacrifice.
The US reconnaissance plane even landed in Hainan, China, without greeting in advance. Finally, the United States issued a letter of apology to conclude. Why can China make the United States admit it now, and what trump cards does China have in its hands?
In the past, China could only take verbal warning measures against the provocations and targets of the United States in many cases, because China was in a critical period of development, but now China has more and more means to counter the United States. For example, in response to foreign interference in our country's internal affairs and interference in China's Xinjiang, Taiwan and other issues, China has promulgated the "Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China", which gives the Chinese side a legal basis for dealing with such issues in the future, and China will also impose counter-sanctions measures on countries that sanction China.
EU countries in China's anti-China voice is still quite a lot, but now China has implemented anti-sanctions measures against European countries, so that many EU countries are directly dumbfounded, supporting China's anti-sanctions is China's growing economic strength, now China is already the world's second largest economy, and the economic growth rate after the epidemic has maintained a relatively high growth rate, which obviously opens up the gap with other countries, but also let the world see China's strength.
You know, China's annual GDP in the 1980s did not exceed 400 billion yuan, and in just 40 years (to 2017), the GDP reached 82.71 trillion yuan, which is enough to show how deep China's economic strength is, and now China still maintains a relatively high growth rate. Some foreign media said that under this circumstance, it is not difficult for China's GDP to surpass that of the United States.
China has the largest number of people, which has led to China becoming a global consumer and importer that cannot be ignored, and its economic strength is naturally relatively large in the international discourse. In addition, China has also made many achievements and achievements in infrastructure construction.
It should be known that a country's economy, politics, and military all rely on infrastructure, and a country with complete infrastructure projects is a country with strong comprehensive national strength. Moreover, China not only does infrastructure for itself, but also has rich experience in foreign infrastructure construction, it can be said that China's infrastructure technology has ranked among the world's first-class, and developed countries may not have the speed and strength of China's infrastructure.
China's eight-year Belt and Road Initiative has shown initial results, providing a link for communication and contact between Central and Southeast Asian countries, strengthening cooperation and diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, bringing infrastructure projects and economic cooperation projects to countries along the route, and driving local economic development and people's living standards.
China's "Belt and Road" initiative is a win-win plan, which has been widely recognized and welcomed by countries along the route, and has also enhanced China's influence and voice in the world. At present, 87 countries and organizations have joined the construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and more countries will be attracted to participate in it in the future.
As we all know, now China still has trillions of US debt in its hands, is the second largest overseas holder of US debt, if the United States wants to use the US debt to complete the harvest for China, it will inevitably make China have a certain impact, if China throws out all the US debt in its hand, it may also make the US debt suffer a relatively large shock, so in this regard, the two sides are still relatively restrained, and such a thing will not happen in a short period of time.
However, there will definitely be other countries to share the share of US debt thrown by China, which is very simple, because although there are many voices in the international community, the US dollar is still the largest currency in international trade, in addition to the largest proportion of the euro, and the US dollar is also pegged to oil, compared with other countries' currencies, it is a relatively stable financial investment asset.
And if the US debt fluctuates, it is not necessarily a good thing for the renminbi. If we want to completely get rid of the influence of the US dollar on China, then we must unswervingly promote the internationalization of the renminbi, and only when the renminbi has a relatively large influence in the world can we ignore the threat of US debt.
As the saying goes, "To strike iron, you need to be hard." ”
China is now thinking like this, although China has made great development and progress in the economic and industrial aspects, but it still needs to continue to develop and continue to promote the internationalization of the renminbi. As long as it masters this trump card, the United States will not be able to harvest China.