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Text: Xu Xu.
Edited by Xu Xu.
Over the past decade, the two superpowers, China and the United States, have been wrestling fiercely in many fields, like two lions vying for supremacy in the wilderness. The United States, the world's leading power for a long time, has been trying to contain China's rise. However, time has passed, China is rising to the top of the new market at an unexpected rate, and the United States' strategy of containing China has been defeated again and again, and its national strength has been exhausted in vain. Let's look back at the past decade and see how China took it in stride and finally gained the upper hand.
China and the United States are engaged in tension in many battlefields, such as trade wars, public opinion wars, science and technology wars, and military wars, and the protracted confrontation has undoubtedly been criticized by the world. From the products of the world's factories flocking to the world, to the power of spacecraft in deep space, China is rising at an unprecedented speed. However, the United States is indeed uneasy about this, and it is difficult for it to accept that a once backward country can quickly catch up and even gradually replace itself as the world's leader. As a result, the US strategy of containing China came into being, in an effort to stifle the dawn of China's development. But what will be the outcome? Will China be able to break through the encirclement? The world will wait and see.
Why did China and the United States come to such a point? The United States once single-handedly led China's road of reform and opening up, but now it regards China as the number one threat and does not hesitate to expend national strength to confront it? Why has China never taken the initiative to provoke, but why has it been heavily suppressed by the United States? All kinds of fog are shrouded in incomprehensible fog.
Tracing back to the roots, it actually stems from China's ambition of "Made in China 2025" in 2015. This surprised the then US Secretary of Commerce Ross, who personally went to China and demanded that the Chinese side abandon the plan, saying that it threatened US interests. China insists on its right to development and refuses to compromise with the United States.
Since then, the United States has launched an all-out war of containment against China. In 2018, the United States brazenly provoked a trade war, slandering China for "stealing intellectual property rights" and "forcibly transferring technology", and imposed high tariffs to put pressure on China. However, China's exports remained strong, hurting the economy, and the US trade war ended in failure.
On the battlefield of public opinion, the United States has used all its resources to attack and smear China. In 2015, the United States threatened the world to demand that China obey the Scarborough Shoal ruling of the "Pheasant International Tribunal"; in 2020, when the new crown epidemic broke out, the United States did everything possible to point the source of the virus at China, trying to portray China as a global public enemy; and during the Trump era, it wanted to promote a new Cold War and isolate China, Russia, and Iran. Every time this happens, China resolutely retaliates, and the public opinion strategy of the United States has come to naught.
If we look at these superficial phenomena alone, it may be difficult to solve the mystery of why the United States insists on containing China. But if we dig deeper into the internal logic, the US approach is obvious. It has seen China's "Made in China 2025" plan achieve remarkable results, and key industries such as automobiles, aviation, and shipbuilding have all advanced to the forefront of the world, breaking through the blockade of China's industrial development by the United States in one fell swoop. What is even more terrifying is that China has also emerged in the field of cutting-edge science and technology, and has been able to develop an E-level supercomputer with domestic chips, second only to the world's top, and China's aerospace engineering, high-speed rail technology, and quantum computing are also changing with each passing day.
In the face of the comprehensive acceleration of China's high-tech "gas pedal", the United States feels great pressure and threat. Because the development of science and technology is not only related to the future industrial competitiveness, but also represents the ownership of the future dominant discourse. Once China catches up, its monopoly position is in jeopardy. This undoubtedly made him feel a deep sense of crisis and anxiety.
In order to maintain its existing position, the United States has not only launched a trade war and a war of public opinion, but also used its military card in an attempt to contain China's development momentum by force. Since 2018, the United States has frequently dispatched warships and aircraft carriers to provoke the South China Sea in an attempt to find out the bottom line of China's defense. However, China's rapidly developing advanced military capabilities, especially the appearance of new hypersonic missiles such as the Dongfeng-17, have made the US military's small moves seem to be in vain. Even the top brass of the US military has to admit that the United States has now withdrawn from the first island chain and can only go around to the second island chain to take precautions. At present, China's aircraft carrier battle group, stealth fighter J20, satellite anti-missile mechanism, and a series of equipment have made the US military feel enough pressure.
Therefore, in the face of the concentrated explosion of China's high-tech, military-industrial, and economic power, the United States has completely failed in containment and can only retreat. It can be said that the balance of power between China and the United States has become sharply contrasting. Today's United States only has the ability to pretend and play right and wrong, but it can no longer contain China's take-off.
This defeat of the United States is not an isolated case. Historically, any power that tries to contain the rise of new powers has failed in the end. In the early part of the last century, Germany tried to contain the United States, but it backfired, and the same was true of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Now it is the turn of the United States, and its efforts to contain China's development are also destined to repeat the mistakes of its predecessors.
What's more, China's path to peaceful rise is also beyond reproach. Unlike those countries that have been ambitious for expansion, China has never threatened the interests and security of any country, and has only been on track to realize its own development dreams. The reason why the United States is so worried about this is completely out of selfishness and adversary mentality, and this is precisely the root cause of its repeated defeats.
Looking ahead, how will China-US relations play out? The optimistic outlook is that China and the United States, as the world's two largest economies, should treat each other as equals and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. After all, China has no intention of threatening the United States, and the United States cannot stop China's development. Once the two sides return to rationality and establish a new type of major-country relations, it will be conducive to global peace and development.
The pessimistic outlook is that the United States will rest on its laurels and persist in confrontation, leading to a new Cold War confrontation between China and the United States. In that case, it would be a lose-lose situation, which would not only hurt both countries, but would also deeply hurt the interests of the world. In order to avoid such an extreme situation, it is obvious that the two sides need to resolve the contradictions with strategic determination and diplomatic wisdom and return to the track of rational cooperation.
For China, it is a wise choice to maintain strategic focus and pursue the path of peaceful development. With regard to the United States, it is necessary to adopt a rational and pragmatic posture that is not impulsive or impatient, and will never make concessions on issues of principle, while temporarily shelving differences on specific issues and seeking common ground while reserving differences. In any case, China should be committed to safeguarding world peace and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Rather than confined to regional disputes, we should not be led by the nose of other major powers.
This incident quickly aroused heated discussions among netizens on the Internet, and some netizens believed:
"The direction of China-US relations not only affects both sides, but also affects global peace and stability. Therefore, rational dialogue is the best policy to seek common ground while reserving differences, and avoiding escalation of confrontation is the key. At the same time, China must maintain its own strength in order to safeguard its own interests. "
Some netizens also think:
"The root cause of the United States' containment of China is status anxiety, and it is simply unacceptable to a peacefully rising power. However, the law of history is difficult to violate, and power will eventually be replaced by new powers. The United States should learn to accept this pattern, and a peaceful transition would be more beneficial. "
Some netizens think:
"Although China is catching up with the United States, it has no intention of threatening any country. If the United States does not come to its senses, it will find itself in a difficult situation. Not only is it unprofitable to fight, but it will completely lose its 'leader' status. Therefore, the only wise choice for the United States is to engage in dialogue with China on an equal footing and jointly safeguard regional and even world peace. "
Looking back at the 10-year contest between China and the United States, we can see that the United States has been obsessed with its stubbornness and has suffered repeated setbacks. China, on the other hand, is striding forward on the path of peaceful development. The United States' attempt to contain China is nothing but wishful thinking, and it is destined to be difficult to reverse the general trend.
China has never made catching up with and overtaking the United States the ultimate goal, and has only pursued its own prosperity. However, it is precisely because of its unswerving pursuit that China has been able to achieve today's remarkable achievements in various fields. A peaceful, open, and ever-growing country with strong comprehensive national strength will naturally become a new force in the regional and even global order. If the United States stubbornly resists this, it will only allow itself to be increasingly marginalized in the torrent of history.
Perhaps this failure of the United States is precisely to give it a "way to live" -- to get rid of its inherent thinking, learn to embrace China's peaceful rise, and jointly lead mankind to a better future. In this way, the confrontation between China and the United States is nothing less than a "timely rain" that washes away the paranoia in the hearts of both sides and promotes constructive dialogue. At a time when the global landscape is being reshaped, China and the United States should put aside the confrontational mentality of competing with each other, work in the same direction, and achieve a convergence of interests and strategies at a higher level.
Where exactly will Sino-US relations go? This will not only test the wisdom of the leaders of the two countries, but also require the participation and promotion of social forces from all quarters. Only by turning hostility into friendship and going hand in hand can the ideal of a community with a shared future for mankind finally be realized. Let us wait and see if China and the United States make a rational choice, live up to the expectations of the people, and jointly forge a new chapter of peace in the new era.