Soon after, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen came to China, and the outside world originally thought that Sino-US relations would ease slightly, but against this background, the U.S. government once again launched an "attack" on China. Recently, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it would launch a Section 301 investigation into China's maritime, logistics and shipbuilding industries.
Briefly talking about what a Section 301 investigation is, the United States has a law called the Trade Act of 1974, in which Section 301 authorizes the United States Trade Representative to initiate an investigation into the "unreasonable or unfair trade practices" of other countries, and can recommend that the President of the United States impose unilateral sanctions after the investigation is completed.
In 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump also launched a "Section 301 investigation" against China based on this clause, and then imposed high tariffs on a large scale, and since then, China and the United States have started a "trade war". Now, nearly six years later, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has once again launched a "Section 301 investigation" against China, apparently with the intention of setting off a "trade war".
Moreover, Dai Qi's approach is very vicious, directly targeting China's maritime logistics and shipbuilding industry, and other three major areas, wanting to weaken China's shipbuilding capacity. You must know that once the results of the investigation are out, the next US sanctions against China will follow, which will inevitably have a serious impact on the above-mentioned areas.
Interestingly, the U.S. government's suppression of China has been put on the table, but it still wants to negotiate and communicate with China, and it is reported that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will also visit China in the near future. On the one hand, they launched an investigation against China, and on the other hand, they sent senior officials to visit China, and frankly, they did not understand what the United States wanted to do, because such communication felt meaningless, and it was better not to talk about it.
Then again, in the context of the Sino-US game, this kind of small trick to suppress China has been common, and I believe that the majority of netizens have seen it strangely, it is nothing more than a trick to dismantle. The key link that can really determine the outcome of the Sino-US game is not trade sanctions, but in the military, diplomacy, geopolitical conflicts and other fields.
Taking geopolitical conflict as an example, why does the United States not dare to dispatch ground troops to fight the Houthis in Yemen? Quite simply, it is afraid that once it sends troops, the United States will be drawn into the quagmire of war and will not be able to get out. At that time, the United States will have to mobilize troops from the Asia-Pacific and Europe regions to help, so that the forces deployed by the United States in the relevant regions will not be able to deter China and Russia.
In particular, since "pro-American" President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. came to power, the Philippines has almost leaned over the side of the United States and repeatedly provoked China's sovereignty and maritime interests on the South China Sea issue. The core purpose of this is to force China to take the lead, and if China does, the situation in the South China Sea will immediately deteriorate, and China will be dragged into a "proxy" war.
After the war, international capital and Chinese capital will definitely withdraw from China's economic market on a large scale based on the principle of capital hedging, and then turn to the United States and other economic markets for investment. Therefore, geopolitical conflict is the key link, and how to find opportunities in the increasingly tense geopolitical situation? This is a question that needs to be considered.