Before the epidemic, the trade friction between China and the United States was the main focus of the world's attention, and everyone was concerned about how the world's top two economies would respond.
For this matter, the US side has always said in a grand manner that the responsibility for trade disputes is not on the US side, because the opposite side has adopted unfair competition measures, and it is only a countermeasure.
Even if the Americans believe in this kind of argument, there are really some people in China who believe these nonsense, and really think that it is our own problem and should take the initiative to correct it.
But in fact, people who understand it know that this practice in the United States has long been used in Japan.
They are not at all maintaining the so-called "normal order of the market", but trying to transfer their own domestic contradictions and problems to others.
Let's look at what the Americans did back then, and see if it was — "Then, then, right now."
In the 1980s, the United States was mired in a terrible stagflation crisis, and angry Americans began to vent their anger on Japanese products, insisting that Japan had robbed Americans of their jobs through unfair competition.
As a result, from the social elite to ordinary people, they took to the streets and launched a boycott of Japanese goods.
Elites at the top began lobbying the government to impose tariffs on Japanese goods and join ordinary people in publicly smashing Japanese products to swear confidence.
Lawmakers smashed Japanese products at the entrance of the Diet to put on a show
Because of the severe inflation in the United States in the 1970s, it was first caught in the quagmire of the Vietnam War and was pit to death, not only unable to raise its head internationally, but also turned offensive into defense in the Cold War.
Subsequently, it coincided with a series of oil prices in the Middle East, which led to a 13% surge in inflation in the United States, and even a runaway crisis in the financial system.
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But the cost is also obvious, although the United States has been solid, but it is not a good thing for American businessmen who do international trade.
As a strong currency, the US dollar is a hard currency in international transactions, and countries around the world generally hold a considerable amount of US dollars as foreign exchange reserves.
Now the dollar has indeed squeezed out the water to appreciate, but other countries have no inflation crisis, and naturally will not follow up with the action of the United States, which has led to a significant appreciation of the dollar in the international currency market.
According to statistics, since the Federal Reserve began to move in 1980, the dollar has appreciated by almost 50% against other mainstream currencies in just five years.
What does this mean in the international trade market?
The first is that the purchasing power of the dollar has increased by 50%, which is of course a happy and prosperous American who buys and buys, and the money in their hands can buy more imports.
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But for companies engaged in international trade, it is too late to cry, because the increase in the exchange rate has led to the cost and quality of goods produced in the United States, while the price in the international market is suddenly 50% more expensive.
At that time, the import volume of the United States was increasing year by year, but the export volume was becoming weaker and weaker, and the trade deficit was expanding, and the main source of this deficit was Japan.
Japan's economy took off rapidly after the war with the axes of "export-oriented economy + special needs of the Korean War and the Vietnam War + European and American manufacturing transfer + national hardship and hard-working".
With the rise of Japan in the automotive industry, it soon surpassed the United States in semiconductor, machinery and other industries, and has become the world's "rising star", and the United States has no future.
Japan's booming industry
Originally, Japanese goods were getting better and better in quality, and now they have caught up with the continuous high level of the US dollar, and during that time, Japanese goods in the United States were simply "killing the four sides", and a number of us domestic export companies had no ability to fight back.
And the people who bought and bought at the beginning are now not happy, because a large number of American companies continue to operate unfavorably, naturally they can not pay wages, can only go bankrupt and lay off employees, and the unemployment rate has begun to rise again.
But the U.S. goal now is to resolutely eliminate inflation at home, and as long as the dollar remains high, the trade deficit between the United States and Japan will only widen in this environment.
Therefore, both the social elite and the ordinary people have felt huge economic pressure, the trade friction between Japan and the United States has gradually increased, and trade protectionism has begun to rise rapidly.
The first is that some giants such as industrial giant Caterpillar, communications giant Motorola and IBM have begun to lobby Congress for a trade war with strong political influence.
Subsequently, some parliamentarians began a political show, they frantically made distorted remarks, and even smashed Japanese products in front of the gates of the US Congress, constantly inciting public sentiment, and finally the American people also participated in this carnival.
As a result, the following scene appeared on the streets and alleys of the United States, where the American people chanted slogans such as "the goods sold in the United States must be made in the United States" and "Awaken the United States", and frantically smashed all kinds of products produced in Japan.
"During that time, almost all of our attention was on the economic conflict between the United States and Japan, and the US Senate and house of representatives held hearings and proposal discussions on THE US-Japan trade friction every day, starting with the friction of textile products, and then gradually expanding to the fields of machinery, television, automobiles, semiconductors and other fields, and Japan's dominant industries were almost all listed as spearheads."
At the time, while every American who bought a Japanese car said that "the reason for buying a Japanese car is simple, just because it is a good car," various politicians and white-left citizens insisted that it was because Japan was engaged in unfair competition.
In short, all Americans blame Japan's unfair trade competition as the culprit in the U.S. status quo, and Japan's irrational practices hurt U.S. manufacturers.
Then, "under pressure from the United States" and "blindly confident", Japan signed the Plaza Accord, and then Japan fell into a state of economic stagnation for twenty consecutive years, which is known as the "lost twenty years".
Is this kind of operation somewhat familiar in recent years?
Therefore, it is recommended that some people who think that the lighthouse country is right, it is their friends who have problems to correct to study history, the lighthouse country is more obscene than you think, it is not at all - "the embodiment of justice"
They ostensibly accuse you of not following the rules, but in fact they just want to transfer the domestic contradictions they can't solve to you and make others pay for their problems.
But today we are not the Japan of that year, the results of the trade war we have also seen, the other side has applied all the despicable means except the military to us, but did not achieve the results of that year.