According to a report by Huanqiu.com, the American media Bloomberg recently complained that Chinese tourists used to be the world's largest overseas tourism group, but in recent years, the frequency of overseas travel by Chinese tourists has decreased significantly, which has indirectly led to the loss of at least 130 billion yuan of global tourism revenue.
The data shows that in recent years, although many people in China still travel overseas, the overall popularity has shown a downward trend. In addition, Chinese tourists mostly choose closer destinations, such as domestic or Southeast Asia, and overall Chinese tourists' flight routes have shrunk by 43%, which has led to the closure of direct flights to China in at least 45 popular overseas destinations.
The report has aroused widespread heated discussions in the international community, and a media person from New Zealand satirized the US media, saying that the West has long promoted the "China threat theory", but now complains that the decline in Chinese tourists will affect the prosperity of the tourism industry and portray the victims as perpetrators, which is a back-handed rake.
Many netizens in Western countries also did not buy it, and left messages in the comment area of the article, saying that the West has promoted too much "China threat theory" and smeared the image of Chinese tourists.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, China has quickly controlled the spread of the epidemic, but the West has not been able to control it, causing the epidemic to spread around the world, making the new crown the worst virus crisis in this century.
The West has done a very mediocre job in epidemic prevention work, and in the face of the accountability of its own people, many countries have chosen to change the topic, point the finger at China, and shift the blame. In addition, because of the epidemic in the United States and the West in the past few years, Chinese tourists will naturally greatly reduce their trips to these countries for safety.
Although the current epidemic has subsided, people's desire to travel abroad has greatly declined, affected by the previous Western false propaganda, many countries still have a certain degree of disgust and resistance to Chinese tourists, for tourists from any country, they want to be able to go to more popular places, rather than hot face and cold butt.
With a population of 1.4 billion, China is the second most populous country in the world after India, accounting for 1/5 of the world's population, and is second only to the United States in terms of economic aggregate.
The U.S. media's blaming China for the global tourism industry's lack of interest is a reflection of the U.S. media's attempt to smear China's international image and suppress China's development.
On January 18 and 19, the U.S.-China Financial Working Group met again in Beijing, during which the two sides communicated on financial and monetary issues, and both countries agreed to continue to maintain contact after the meeting. Although both sides want to establish deeper cooperation, on January 19, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a document saying that the two countries have differences in many areas, but the U.S. side did not specify where the differences are.
In 2023, China's economy will continue to grow rapidly, accounting for 18% of the world's total, and the U.S. economy will reach 25% of the world's total.
Thus, despite the large number of differences between China and the United States, the two sides have long been in a state of competition, but they are close partners with each other.
On January 18, the resumption of the meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture between China and the United States, where the two agriculture ministers met in Washington, D.C., after a nine-year hiatus due to the deterioration of Sino-US relations, is significant and represents the resumption of substantial cooperation between China and the United States in the field of agriculture.
Since the start of the Sino-US trade war, many American enterprises have been greatly impacted, and the agricultural sector has borne the brunt, and a large number of American agricultural products cannot be exported to China, which has seriously affected the economic and people's livelihood development of the United States.
The current strategic intent of the United States is clear: it will maintain close cooperation with China in more consumer goods areas, including agricultural products, but will "de-risk" China in some special areas, such as high-tech fields. US Ambassador to China Burns stressed that the United States will not decouple from China, but the Sino-US competitive relationship will always exist.
At a time when Sino-US relations are warming up and cooperation is gradually resuming, the United States is talking about competition in order to set the tone for future Sino-US relations, that is, the United States is aware of the importance of maintaining cooperation with China, but it is unwilling to give up its hegemony.
As far as China is concerned, China has always been actively friendly with other countries, and peaceful coexistence is the basic principle of China's development, and China has no intention of competing with the United States for hegemony, but China will firmly protect its own interests from harm and safeguard its national security.