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Text: Yu Shenglin
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Double standards have always been one of the most important labels in the United States. Everyone knows that the United States and the mainland are engaged in a trade war and want to suppress the mainland, but later they couldn't stand it first, and hurriedly relented and asked the mainland not to decouple from the United States so quickly.
On the more specific matter, the giant panda Yaya, who was going to leave in the United States before, ended up being adopted and raised skinny. In addition to the giant pandas, although the United States suppresses the mainland everywhere, it also wants mainland tourists to go to the United States to send them money, and Bloomberg recently published an article saying that the disappearance of Chinese tourists has caused the global tourism industry to lose 130 billion.
Co-author, let's not go to the United States to send money to the United States, the United States is still unhappy, and wants to come out and complain?
(Bloomberg Dump Pot News)
1. The United States, which has extremely double standards
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become the world's only superpower, and for a long time, the United States has relied on its military strength to point fingers around the world and do everything with extreme double standards.
Fortunately, in recent years, the development of various countries has become better and better, the gap between them and the United States has become smaller, and the people of all countries have a clearer understanding of the world.
Take the Chinese tourists mentioned by Bloomberg as an example, we don't like to travel to the United States anymore, and the United States is "framed" in this way, using public opinion to guide us and want to abuse us on the global network. This kind of clumsy move is no longer feasible now.
(Comparison before and after Yaya's return to China)
Chinese tourists don't go to the United States to travel, and the United States has a rhythm, and the direction is very obvious, wanting to throw the pot on mainland tourists. The decline in global tourism revenue has nothing to do with Chinese tourists, who love to travel wherever they go.
The United States has found that there are fewer Chinese tourists traveling to the United States, and it does not know whether it is the US government that is dying, or whether the tourism environment in the United States is not good?
According to the "2023 China's Tourism Economic Operation Analysis and 2024 Development Forecast" report released by the China Tourism Academy in 2024, China's tourism industry will not only not fall in 2023, but will increase significantly, and the number of tourists and revenue across the country will almost double compared with 2022.
(Chinese tourists from all over the world)
Chinese tourists have not disappeared as Bloomberg said, but they just don't travel to the United States and choose to travel in their own country. After all, we don't like a war-loving country like the United States.
And even American netizens are not as easy to deceive as before. In one sentence, many netizens directly pointed out the reason why there are fewer Chinese tourists in the United States today, that is, the United States has been claiming that China is an enemy, suppressing and throwing the blame on China in various ways.
Under such circumstances, why should Chinese tourists still travel to the United States? It is better to go around the country more often, and after spending some money, they can also contribute to the motherland's national defense construction and build two more bullets.
(Foreign netizens replied to Bloomberg)
Some have even pointed out that the tactics of the Western media, whether it is Chinese-made equipment or Chinese tourists, have been branded as "spies" by the Western media. Nowadays, Chinese tourists do not travel to the West, isn't it just in line with the Western media?
Moreover, Huawei's mobile phone, which was previously regarded as a national gift, was maliciously targeted by the United States because it was independently developed by China, saying that Huawei mobile phones might eavesdrop on US secrets, and sanctions were imposed on Huawei.
The United States is doing this to us, and it still wants Chinese tourists to rush to the United States to send them money, I am afraid that they are not crazy about money.
(Huawei)
Second, the US hegemony is in jeopardy
The reasons behind the fact that the United States is playing tricks and throwing the blame on mainland tourists for the decline in its own tourism revenues are nothing more than two points: one is that the United States is now having problems with its own economy, and the other is that it still wants to pass on the contradictions through the double standard method as in the past.
According to a survey by Forbes magazine, the wage level in the United States has not been able to outperform inflation in the United States since the 80s of the last century.
(New York)
The Pew Research Center found that the purchasing power of salaries in the United States today is only equal to that of 1978. The federal minimum hourly wage in the United States in 2024 is $7.5, and some states can reach $16 after a small wage increase. But with high inflation, it doesn't even match the purchasing power of the lowest hourly wage of $4.03 in 1973.
It is not surprising that prices in the United States are expensive, Americans themselves are reluctant to spend, and tourism revenues are sluggish. In order to cover up its domestic economic problems, the United States once again thought of the trick of passing on the contradictions and frantically threw the blame at the mainland.
Whether it is from the small United States dumping the blame for the decline in global tourism revenue, the reason for Chinese tourists, or from the Sino-US trade war and other major events, the reaction of countries around the world, now the United States can no longer return to its former hegemony, and its double-standard behavior is gradually unworkable.
(New York)
In the more than 200 years since the founding of the United States, except for a very small number of decades when the United States did not participate in wars, the other 200 years have been directly or indirectly involved in wars in various places.
In the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War, in which the United States was directly involved, as well as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that have not yet ended, the United States has played a behind-the-scenes role behind the scenes. In order to have an absolute voice in the world. However, now this set of the United States is gradually unworkable, and the military, oil, and dollar hegemony are gradually loosening.
(Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
First of all, on the military front, although Putin said that Russia has no intention of going to war with the United States head-on, he is not afraid of the United States, otherwise the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would not have broken out. The United States can only bully some weak countries, such as Palestine in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Now China and Russia, the United States has long dared not go to war with us head-on, and can only find a way to replicate the way that brought down the Soviet Union at the beginning, and through the trade war, to bring down other people's economies. The military hegemony of the United States is gradually disintegrating.
In terms of oil and dollar hegemony, the United States is gradually losing its dominance. During the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the world's three major oil producing regions were the United States, Russia and the Middle East, but this time the Middle East did not firmly stand on the side of the United States and sanction Russia together, but reached an agreement with Russia to reduce production in 2024.
(Petroleum Extraction)
At the same time, with the efforts of the mainland, many countries and the mainland trade oil, gold, etc., and there is no longer a need for dollar transit, and the hegemony of the dollar will gradually cease to exist in the future.
After catching up in recent decades, everyone has become stronger and knows that they are resisting, and the United States will naturally not be able to continue to act recklessly, spilling and playing tricks around the world, and engaging in all kinds of double-standard problems.
Resources:
U.S. media said that "the disappearance of Chinese tourists has cost the global tourism industry 130 billion".Global.com,2024-01-22
Analysis of China's Tourism Economy Operation in 2023 and Development Forecast in 2024, China Tourism Academy
Lookout丨The purchasing power of the American people has fallen instead of rising.Shangguan News,2024-04-06