One, two, three, China collapse theory, four, five, six China threat theory, the Western media is using this split personality posture to comment on China, for China's economy, the Western media have long been not optimistic, for this reason is the collapse theory often on the lips, after China released the economic data for the first quarter of 2024, the West used "a flash in the pan" to describe it. The Wall Street Journal of the United States has "criticized" China's economy, claiming that whether China's economy is picking up depends on the performance in the fourth quarter of 2024 to become clear, in fact, the United States and the United States have ignored China's economic upward trend in 2023, and now they are looking at China from scratch, so it seems that the Western media is stunned.
The US "Wall Street Journal" declared that China's economy has not really rebounded in the past 18 months, and even optimistic people have begun to lose confidence. According to the analysis of the Beacon Front Station, the US media will obviously not be optimistic about China's economy, because they want to see China's collapse, so every bit of progress in China will make the Western media feel stunned, because it does not meet the expectations of the West, and the West wants to see the decline of China's economy so as to maintain the superiority of the West.
China's economic success in the first quarter was due to progress in a number of areas, and in terms of economic share, China's auto industry has surpassed real estate, indicating the success of China's economic transformation. At the same time, domestic consumption has also been boosted, in addition to major consumer goods, there is also the rise of domestic tourism, which has made China's economy have many growth points. China's exports have surged, and the Western media also described it as unsatisfactory foreign demand, in fact, while the West is singing about China, it is slapping the West in the face, especially the Biden administration in the United States, Biden claims that the US economy is resilient, how can he say that the demand is insufficient when commenting on China's economy?
And the 5.3 growth rate of China's economy in the first quarter, which the Western media viewed with colored glasses, is clearly singing about China for the sake of declining. The US media pointed out that China's domestic desire for consumption is not strong, and in fact, China has long focused on savings, and the West has obviously taken a blind eye when looking at China's economic development and consumption trends from the perspective of the West. According to British media reports, Aquilino publicly criticized China's defense spending, claiming that China's economy is "ineffective", so the increase in China's defense spending is worrying.
A few days ago, the Stockholm Center for International Studies in Sweden released the 2023 annual global military spending, China is the world's second largest economy, and natural military spending will be in the second place in the world, and the U.S. military generals are already uncomfortable, declaring that China should not have an increase in defense spending, which is a typical "only state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light lamps" mentality, in fact, the United States' military spending accounts for 37% of the world's scale, but the United States has publicly exaggerated the so-called "Chinese military threat", highlighting the United States' "double standard". "Essence. While the West is singing about China's economic decline, it is also exaggerating China's military threat, and this is the situation of split personality in the West.