Since Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned, the United States has been suppressing China more and more frequently. Under the leadership of Commerce Secretary Raimondo, the US side has frequently used "national security" and "assistance to Russia" to find trouble with Chinese companies. In the past two days, they have put 37 Chinese entities on a "trade blacklist" in one go, preventing these Chinese companies from obtaining American products, technologies, and investments.
Raimondo vs. Biden
These include companies related to the "stray balloon" incident in the United States at the beginning of last year, companies that the United States claimed to provide dual-use goods for Russia, and companies that the United States believes may make breakthroughs in the fields of chips and nuclear technology and threaten the leading position of the United States.
This ban is obviously the United States messing around, some US media have made statistics, saying that after entering 2024, American politicians seem to be unable to speak without China, except for the aforementioned high-tech enterprises, such as Chinese refrigerators and Chinese garlic, which are considered by American politicians to be a threat to their "national security". However, from another point of view, this also shows that Yellen and Blinken visited China successively and did not get what they wanted, such as continuing to increase their holdings of U.S. bonds.
Raimondo
When Raimondo was interviewed, she also talked about the anecdote of being "spit in the face" by a Chinese mobile phone brand during her visit to China, which shows that the United States is too lazy to pretend, and behind these unreasonable suppressions of China is naked envy, jealousy and hatred.
Moreover, "blackmailing" 37 Chinese entities is just the beginning, and they have a trick to do next. According to people close to the White House, the White House may soon issue an announcement to increase tariffs on some key industries, such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaic products and so on. Regarding the incident, Biden let the wind go back as early as February, saying that he would take "unprecedented action" to prevent Chinese connected cars from entering the American market. The reason for his move out is still "national security", and now the tariff is the way he believes can stop Chinese products.
New energy vehicles
These twists and turns, in fact, everyone understands that this is completely a unilateral trade protection measure taken by the US government for fear of local enterprises being attacked by China, and at the same time, it can also cause a certain curb on China's industrial development. But the problem is that the move to increase tariffs on Chinese goods was used as early as the Trump administration, claiming that it would make China "pay", and it was American companies that would ultimately suffer.
The reason for this is very simple, no matter whether the US government increases tariffs or not, their demand for Chinese goods cannot be "quit" in a short period of time, and the cost of American importers to get the goods is high, and the price of selling to American consumers will rise, and they will not pay for subsidies themselves, and the final result is that these increased tariffs have fallen on the end retailers and consumers, which looks more like the US government has cut the leeks of the American people on the grounds of "suppressing" China.
China has successfully overtaken in corners in the field of new energy
As early as more than 10 years ago, Europe and the United States united to impose high tariffs on our photovoltaic products, and after Biden took office, he frequently underhanded our semiconductor industry, but in the end, our achievements in the field of photovoltaics and new energy vehicles still completed the overtaking of the United States and the West.
It is also ironic that when the United States had technological advantages in various industries, it told us about free trade, to open up and embrace the West, but now it is not competitive, and when it comes to national security, we must be vigilant against China's "overcapacity", what is called double standard, this is called double standard, and who is ultimately hurt by this behavior, let time give us the answer.