Under the epidemic, China is still an important engine of global economic recovery, the scale of foreign trade exceeded 6 trillion yuan for the first time, and the situation has changed in the treatment of China, and the three major reasons are enough to make the United States have to bow its head.
As we all know, in recent years, with China's strong development and the continuous improvement of its international status, the United States is worried that its own global hegemonic status will be shaken, so in order to suppress China's strong development, the United States under the Trump administration has unilaterally and blatantly launched a trade war against China by increasing tariffs and other means, in a vain attempt to contain China in the economic and trade field. In recent years, the scale of trade between China and the United States has always been in a state of steady rise, and in 2021, China's global foreign trade scale is the first to break the $6 trillion mark, obviously, in the field of economic trade, China still has a strong momentum, the United States vainly attempts to forcefully suppress China through economic means, curb China's development, has not been realistic.
According to the Global Network reported on January 15, on January 14, Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs of China and director of the Department of Statistical Analysis, introduced the import and export of foreign trade in 2021 at a press conference: The total import and export value of China's trade in goods in 2021 was 39.1 trillion yuan, and in US dollar terms, China's import and export scale reached 6.05 trillion US dollars. Among them, exports were 21.73 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.2%,; imports were 17.37 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.5%. In addition, the data released on the 14th also showed that China's imports and exports to the United States in rmb terms for the whole of 2021 were 4.88 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.2%, reuters estimated that China's surplus with the United States last year was 396.58 billion US dollars.
In this regard, He Weiwen, a senior researcher at the Chongyang Institute of Financial Research at Chinese Min University, said that this shows that the US tariff policy against China has completely failed, "Made in China" is irreplaceable, and also proves the organic connection between the Sino-US industrial division of labor, and Washington's suppression of China violates objective laws. Moreover, the growth of trade between China and several major partners is very strong, indicating that China's foreign trade is growing in an all-round and balanced manner.
Just under the circumstances of a very good situation in China, the United States is a mess at home, the epidemic is raging, inflation, racial issues, etc., because of this, in the treatment of China, the United States is no longer blindly tough, the situation between China and the United States has changed, into the stage of making the United States bargain and have to bow its head. There are three reasons for this.
First, the United States may not be able to pose a political threat to China for the time being. For example, on the Taiwan issue, although the United States has recently frequently expressed its position and declared that it wants to "protect Taiwan's security," it is actually just a means of exerting pressure and a bargaining chip. To put it bluntly, the United States is bargaining with China, but the Taiwan issue concerns China's core interests, and it is absolutely impossible for the Chinese side to make concessions; second, the trade war has entered its fifth year, the volume of Sino-US trade has not decreased but has increased, and senior US officials have repeatedly proposed the intention of "re-linking" between China and the United States, and the two sides have also conducted a series of trade negotiations, which represents a change in the United States, and it has to start bargaining with China; Third, China's tough countermeasures have made the United States realize that the fight is bound to be the result of both defeats and injuries. In the past, whenever the US sanctions stick was waved, it was almost invincible, but it was as if it had failed to use this kind of means against China, not only that, China's reciprocal countermeasures also gave the United States a taste of "anti-phagocytosis". Obviously, after the economic sanctions were useless and the military threat was ineffective, the means available to the United States were extremely limited, and now the United States has recognized the strength of China.