Wei Wei said | In 2021, China and the United States launched a fierce contest on three fronts

Wang Yiwei / Wen tit-for-tat, a hammer to determine!

In March 2021, the U.S. side and the Chinese side publicly made quite confrontational policy and position statements on Sino-US relations.

The US side declared it on March 3.

On this day, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken made a formal statement on U.S. foreign policy. Speaking of China, he said: "China is the only country that poses a serious challenge to a stable and open international system in the economic, diplomatic, military and technological fields. The rules, values, and relationships between this system serve the interests of the American people and reflect the values of the American people. Our relationship with China should be handled in this way: competition is competition, cooperation is cooperation, and confrontation is confrontation. What they have in common is that China is the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system - all the rules, values, and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to, because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the American people. Our relationship with China will be competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be. The common denominator is the need to engage China from a position of strength.）。 ”

The Chinese side declared it on March 19.

In the high-level dialogue held between China and the United States in Anchorage, the capital of Alaska, in front of US Secretary of State Blinken and US President National Security Adviser Sullivan, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, said: "I will now say that the United States is not qualified to say in front of China that you should talk to China from the perspective of strength. Even 20 or 30 years ago, you weren't qualified to say that, because Chinese wouldn't eat it. If the U.S. side wants to deal well with the Chinese side, then act in accordance with the necessary agreements and in the right way. ”

The above content can be summarized into two sentences: the US side said, I will do what I can to deal with you; the Chinese side said, although the horse is released, I will not eat your set. The Sino-US relationship in 2021 revolves around the above two sentences.

In the author's opinion, the US side, proceeding from the position of strength, has mainly carried out high-intensity encirclement and blockade of China on the three fronts of politics, military, science and technology, or in the three fields. The Chinese side does not eat this set, actively responds, and sees tricks and tricks.

An overview is as follows:

In the political sphere.

The United States held aloft two golden signboards, democracy and human rights; set up the biggest field, the democracy summit; banned the softest commodity, Xinjiang cotton; snubbed a wonderful international event, the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics; tirelessly cared about a Chinese city, Hong Kong; introduced a series of measures and laws against China; sanctioned a number of leaders and officials of relevant Chinese departments.

Of these actions, the democratic summit was the most unsuccessful. The United States invited 110 countries and regions, and only 89 participated. The Western mainstream media did not give significant coverage and attention. Only a few thousand people watched the live broadcast of the conference online. During the summit, many countries, including those invited by the United States, publicly expressed their positions and severely criticized the United States. The summit can be said to have ended awkwardly.

On the Chinese side, in addition to reciprocal countermeasures against the United States and the countries that follow the United States, sanctions against relevant foreign institutions, china has also issued a white paper to correct the public.

On September 26, a white paper entitled "Population Development in Xinjiang" was released, pointing out that Xinjiang's economy is stable, social stability, people's living and working in peace and contentment, and balanced population development, and that anti-China forces outside The country fabricated the so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang to deceive the world, in an attempt to hoodwink the international community and hinder China's progress.

On December 6, a white paper entitled "The Situation of Democracy in the United States" was released, pointing out that democracy in the United States has been alienated and has three evils, such as the accumulation of institutional chronic diseases, the chaos of democratic practice, and the bad results of exporting democracy.

On December 20, the white paper "Democratic Development in Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems" was released, pointing out that there is no democracy in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, Hong Kong's return to the motherland has ushered in a new era of democracy, the central government firmly supports the democratic development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the central government will work together with all strata, all walks of life and all walks of life in Hong Kong to finally achieve the goal of universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and all members of the Legislative Council.

In the military field.

The US move is mainly embodied in the following aspects: It continues to sell arms to Taiwan, conducts reconnaissance flights on the periphery of the coastline of Chinese mainland all year round, and unites the fleets of relevant countries under the pretext of "freedom of navigation" to approach or even break into the waters near the islands and reefs in the South China Sea when entering and leaving the South China Sea.

The countermeasures taken by the Chinese side, from north to south, are: The Chinese and Russian air forces held the first joint air strategic cruise; the combined fleet of the Chinese and Russian navies circumnavigated and cruised the Japanese archipelago; the Chinese naval fleet, including the aircraft carrier formation, repeatedly crossed Japan and entered the western Pacific for exercise; the Chinese air force carried out combat readiness patrols in the airspace southwest of Taiwan; and the Chinese navy verified, identified, warned, and drove away the fleets of relevant countries in the South China Sea.

In the field of science and technology.

The main practices of the United States are: restricting Chinese-related enterprises from obtaining American products, technologies and services through the entity list; screening Chinese students studying in the United States and refusing to sign some Chinese students; suppressing American scientists who cooperate with China, including Chinese scientists and non-Chinese scientists, some of whom have been arrested and convicted; and internationally, restricting Chinese enterprises from obtaining high-end equipment, such as ultraviolet lithography machines.

China's approach, on the one hand, declares that China will be more open and put into practical action, and on the other hand, it increases its efforts to achieve self-reliance and self-improvement in the field of science and technology. Public information shows that in 2021, China has made great progress in manned spaceflight, chip manufacturing, weapons and equipment (003 aircraft carriers), aero engines and other fields.

Looking forward to 2022, the confrontation and contest between China and the United States in the above three fronts and three fields will only become more complicated and severe, at the same time, Sino-US relations will also maintain a fighting and unbroken situation, and Sino-US relations are generally controllable.

The author believes that if one day in the future, the situation in which China and the United States cannot be broken will be broken, then there will be only one factor that will lead to the subversive destruction of Sino-US relations by breaking this situation: the Taiwan issue. The elites of China and the United States have predicted this prospect and are actively seeking a solution.

It is hoped that the elites of China and the United States will find a solution to the problem and put it into practice, after all, if there is a subversive destruction of Sino-US relations, it will not be a blessing for the chinese and American people, nor for the people of the world.