Text: Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
Editor|Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
[Preface]
On April 18, after the conclusion of the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Italy, these countries began to unify their rhetoric and wantonly interfere in China's internal affairs.
Basically, in the past, they have come to China for all kinds of internal affairs interference, Taiwan, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, Xinjiang, and Tibet.
It can be said that the purpose of Western countries to contain China's development was almost written directly on the face, and then Biden once again used the usual means in the past, hoping to curb the mainland's development by raising tariffs.
In addition to the United States, other countries have also unified their "caliber" and aimed their "muzzles" at China, as if they were bound to lose a piece of meat on China's body.
【Debt Repayment】
One of the most puzzling is the issue of American hospitals demanding that China repay its debts, after all, this is no longer a curb on our development, but a humiliation for us.
A U.S. congressman named Vance proposed a plan to demand that China repay its debts, which were issued during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
At the same time, he threatened that if we did not repay the debt, which is now worth a trillion dollars, we would no longer recognize China's holdings of US Treasury bonds.
Of course, this is impossible to achieve, because China is currently the second largest creditor of the United States, and if the United States does not recognize China's US Treasury bonds, it will also be a blow to the credibility of the United States and what little it has left.
What's more, everyone knows that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we have canceled all previous unequal treaties, and the main role of this proposal for China is to insult us rather than not asking for money.
[Arms sales to Taiwan]
Compared with these differences, any move by the United States on Taiwan is of vital importance to us and absolutely cannot be tolerated.
According to US media disclosures, the United States has once again begun to sell weapons to Taiwan and openly arm the forces on the island.
According to this information, the US military and the Boeing Company of the United States have signed a contract for 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and these weapons are "purchased" by the US military in its own name.
Prior to this, the United States had already approved a number of plans to sell weapons to Taiwan, which included not only a large number of missiles, but also a lot of corresponding training equipment.
In addition to Taiwan's affairs, they also frequently intervene in other places, and the things that accuse us are all trumped-up charges that are commonplace.
For example, we patrol our own waters, such as the South China Sea and the East China Sea, or in the name of "democracy" to care about whether Tibetans in Tibet on the mainland or Uyghurs in Xinjiang have human rights.
We don't know how this person who supports the massacres of Muslims by Israelis in the Middle East every day has the right to question our disrespect for the human rights of the Muslim government in Xinjiang?
Not to mention Tibet, I am afraid that for so many years in the entire Western world, except for those who like to climb the Himalayas, those politicians' knowledge of Tibet may only come from imagination.
[Choose one of the two?]
Not only these, but also the increasing trade between China and Russia after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict has also made people in Western countries feel afraid.
At the meeting, Blinken, who is about to visit China, said that China is now trying to build relations with European countries on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is helping to pose the biggest threat to Europe beyond the end of the Cold War.
This so-called biggest threat is actually talking about Russia, after all, in the mouth of the United States, although the Soviet Union has collapsed, Russia has always been a very big threat.
Moreover, during this time, the West has also been attacking China's public opinion, and even said that as long as China does not support Russia, Russia will be defeated immediately.
After that, the entire G7 organization said that it would impose further sanctions on any country's "aid" to Russia.
Obviously, what the United States means is that if we want to establish cooperative relations with Europe, we must completely "break off relations" with Russia.
【Undisturbed】
The US proposal to sever relations with Russia is obviously very unreasonable and even unreasonable.
Not to mention that any commercial cooperation between us and Russia is fully in accordance with international law, and we have not sold any weapons to Russia, and Russia has too many of its own weapons to use, and there are still many Soviet-era weapons that are still in use today.
At the same time, China and Russia are not only the world's largest countries, but also neighbors, and they are basically complementary in all aspects.
For example, Russia's light industry has not been very developed, which has been the case since the Soviet era, so Russian goods have always been in short supply.
As a big manufacturing country, China is not lacking in all kinds of goods, and the name of Made in China is not blown, not to mention that China and Russia are the world's largest natural gas consumers and the largest natural gas exporters.
Therefore, there is no support for Russia's aggression at all, and just because Russia and Ukraine are at war, we can't be stopped from using natural gas to cook and burn firewood instead, right?
【Propionic acid dumping】
In the face of these actions by the United States, we will naturally not sit idly by, after the United States imposed 60% punitive tariffs on steel and bauxite on the mainland.
Although it seems to be very high, you must know that the mainland's demand for steel is still very large, and it will not export much steel itself.
Therefore, only 0.6% of the total steel imported by the United States is imported from China, which is almost negligible.
So these additional tariffs have no effect at all, but are just as disgusting as if we were making us pay off our debts before.
But even so, we will not let them go easily, and now 30% of China's domestic propionic acid products are imported from the United States.
Moreover, this kind of thing is not a monopoly thing, and the fact that the United States only accounts for 30% of it shows that other countries also export this kind of thing.
Therefore, after the United States imposed tariffs on our steel, we determined that the U.S. propionic acid might be harmful to Chinese companies, so we began an anti-dumping investigation against the U.S. propionic acid.
Coincidentally, on April 19, when the G7 ended, the investigation was finally concluded, and the Ministry of Commerce could determine that the U.S. propionic acid was indeed dumped and damaged the interests of Chinese companies.
[PLA reaction]
On the Taiwan issue, it is even more impossible for us to give them a little room for maneuver, and on the 21st, the media on the island of Taiwan said that a large number of Chinese fighters had recently been discovered.
In response to the G7, we dispatched dozens of aircraft around the entire island of Taiwan to conduct a wave of "joint combat readiness cruises" with our warships.
If it was all a small fight before, then the scale of this time obviously surprised many people, and the people on the island were even worried that they were about to be punished.
The completion of the encirclement of Taiwan in these two hours also shows our attitude toward Taiwan, and we can still talk to you about other things, but Taiwan is absolutely impossible.
【German Chancellor's Visit to China】
And the G7 is not so united internally, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the whole of Europe has obviously been under tremendous pressure.
Therefore, many countries in Europe are also looking for a new way out, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently came to China for a visit under pressure from the state.
Although the relationship between the two countries will not necessarily get better after this visit, it is an opportunity, and a willingness to communicate means that there is an opportunity for cooperation.
Germany is not the beginning of cooperation between China and Europe, nor will it be the end of cooperation between China and Europe.
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Information sources:
On April 22, 2024, the global network reported on "G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement Expressing Concern About China's Actions in the East and South China Seas, Foreign Ministry: Wanton Interference in China's Internal Affairs!".
On April 19, 2024, Beijing Daily reported that "Ministry of Commerce: Investigation Agencies Preliminarily Determined that Imported Propionic Acid Originating in the United States Was Dumped".