Preface
In the past two years, the confrontation between China and the United States has become more and more obvious, although China has been emphasizing a community with a shared future for mankind, but it is clear that the United States does not care about all mankind, the United States only cares about its own interests.
On January 4 of this year, the "U.S.-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition" asked the Biden administration to blacklist a Chinese technology company, intending to make a move on China's Beidou.
U.S.-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition
On March 1, 2023, McCarthy, then Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, made its debut in the House of Representatives, the so-called U.S.-China Select Committee on Strategic Competition, which was established just three days after taking office.
The U.S.-China Select Committee on Strategic Competition, also known as the "China Commission," held hearings in the House of Representatives as soon after its establishment, directly characterizing the U.S.-China rivalry as "an existential struggle."
Although such a statement has been opposed by some American politicians, confrontation with China seems to have become the "political correctness" of most American politicians.
Although China has been emphasizing a community with a shared future for mankind, this is not what American politicians want to see. So on January 4 this year, the "China Committee" wrote a letter to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
The letter claimed that the U.S. government should designate Quectel as a "Chinese military enterprise that restricts the entry of U.S. capital."
The letter claimed that it had "sufficient" evidence that Quectel had gained market share in the U.S. market and was helping China with technical support for the Beidou satellite navigation system.
The Americans believe that the Beidou satellite navigation system has played a very important role in China's military operations, so the United States should impose sanctions on Quectel Communications.
Although Quectel's president expressed his opposition to the Chinese committee's approach shows that all Quectel products are civilian and will not pose a threat to US national security, how can the United States, which is already in the army, believe it?
Why are the Americans so sensitive to the Beidou Navigation Satellite System? Actually, the Americans are right, and the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is indeed of great help to China's military operations.
The importance of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System
When it comes to satellite navigation systems, then what must not be bypassed is the GPS of the United States, which was originally only a means developed by the US military to help submarines obtain positions.
However, after research and development, it was found that the system was very easy to use, so it was decided to vigorously develop the system, and now it has become one of the four major positioning systems in the world.
The Beidou satellite navigation system was developed in 1994 after the full completion of the GPS in the United States, and scientists have made great efforts to develop the Beidou satellite navigation system.
Finally, the first Beidou satellite was launched on April 14, 2007, and the signal of this satellite was successfully received after the successful launch.
After the completion of the Beidou satellite, it can bring huge economic benefits to our country every year. We don't need to pay a lot of money to introduce foreign systems, and we only need to pay a very low price to provide services to domestic users.
Moreover, we can also put the Beidou satellite into the international market and earn a lot of benefits for the mainland. It can be said that the completion of the Beidou satellite is beneficial and harmless.
Why is China vigorously developing Beidou?
As early as when the United States had just developed GPS, the mainland already wanted to develop its own satellite navigation system to avoid the phenomenon of being stuck in the future.
But you must know that the United States invested more than $10 billion in just a dozen years from 1973 to 1985 in order to develop GPS. At that time, China's national strength did not support us to invest so much, so this matter could only be put on hold for the time being.
However, the Gulf War that broke out in 1990 completely woke up China. Relying on the advantages brought by GPS, the U.S. military has told the world how to fight modern warfare, and the era of mechanized warfare has passed, and now it is the era of information warfare.
Since the Gulf War, China has also begun to build a modern army. If the Gulf War woke us up, then the Milky Way incident completely hurt China.
In 1993, the mainland's Yinhe freighter was sailing in the Indian Ocean, but the US military suddenly claimed that the Yinhe was loaded with chemical weapons materials and asked to board the ship for inspection.
Of course, the crew knew that there were no chemical weapons raw materials on their ship, so they ignored the unreasonable demands of the US military, but what the United States did next made people very angry.
The United States directly turned off the GPS signal in this area, causing the Galaxy to lose contact with the mainland. In that extremely hot summer, the crew persevered at sea for 22 days without water and food before they were forced to agree to the US military boarding and inspection.
In the end, of course, the US military found nothing, but refused to apologize to China. These two incidents made China realize how important it is to have its own navigation system.
If in wartime, there is no navigation system of its own, once the United States turns off GPS, then China's troops will all become "blind", so the significance of the mainland's vigorous development of Beidou is already obvious.
Why is the United States trying to suppress China?
In fact, the thinking of the Americans has always been confrontational, because it is now the world hegemon, and by virtue of its hegemony in the world, it has simply earned most of the world's interests.
Therefore, whether you have the idea of confronting the United States or not, as long as you have enough strength, the United States will spare no effort to suppress you. Moreover, for hundreds of years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was always a poor and weak country.
No matter which world power it is, it can easily step on China. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Americans suddenly discovered that China had gradually caught up, and the speed of development was surprising.
There is a big difference between the way the United States and China make money, and the United States makes money almost lying down by relying on finance and patented technology.
China, on the other hand, relies on labor-intensive industries to manufacture and process low-end industrial products to make money. But suddenly one day, China no longer wants to rely on this way to make money, so it also began to vigorously develop science and technology, and wants to become a scientific and technological power, which poses a serious threat to the scientific and technological hegemony of the United States.
So the Americans panicked, and they began to suppress China, although China did not have this idea. The U.S. crackdown on Quectel is a good example.
Because the Americans believe that your company provides technical support for China's Beidou satellite navigation system, then it poses a threat to the national security of the United States.
Whether you do it or not, I think if you do, you should be sanctioned by the United States. In fact, there are not so many differences between China and the United States, but many times the United States needs a "scapegoat" to divert domestic contradictions.
However, China has developed to a very powerful point, and although there is still a certain gap between China and the United States in many places, China's strength has also made the United States feel deeply jealous.
As early as 2021, Mark Milley, a four-star general in the United States, repeatedly reminded the U.S. government that it should try its best to avoid a head-on conflict.
As for why the United States began to chase China's Beidou satellite navigation system, it is not because the Beidou satellite navigation system poses a threat to the United States, but because it has broken the dominant position of the United States.
epilogue
Although there is a certain gap between China's Beidou satellite navigation system and GPS, we are not afraid of the gap, and believe that one day, we will be able to surpass the United States and become the real world's first.
Source: Observer.com