This year should be regarded as the first year of the "collapsed house" in the United States. Since the beginning of the year, the comprehensive loss of control of the two conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Palestine and Israel has played a prelude to the accelerated collapse of US unipolar hegemony.
Now, as the Biden administration has become more and more logical and comical in domestic and foreign affairs, not only China and Russia are becoming more and more impatient with the United States, but even India, ASEAN countries, and Indo-Pacific allies Japan and South Korea, which the White House wants to woo, have begun to jump ship to find a way back for themselves.
At the beginning of his presidency, Biden promised to rebuild America's so-called "global leadership", but after nearly four years of tossing, the final result was empty-handed. The Biden administration's divine logic, when facing competitors, is mainly embodied in one word called self-inflicted cleverness. Recently, the new round of trade war with China led by Biden is the epitome of this word.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen revealed that the U.S. is preparing to impose "more strategic" tariffs on Chinese goods. She has not given the details of the new version of the tariff plan, but judging from the news revealed by the US media, Biden's version of the plan not only does not reverse the wrong policy of the Trump era, but will impose tariffs of up to 102.5% on China's emerging industries, especially the electric vehicle industry, which is more than three times the current tariff standard.
The fact that a country that started out with free trade advocates trade barriers is in itself very dark humorous. But the most logical part is not here, but when the wind is about to impose tariffs on China, Yellen said that after the US tariff plan is implemented, China should swallow its anger and not make a "strong response" to reciprocal measures.
Why do Americans have this confidence that "I can hit you, but you can't fight back"? One possible reason is that, in the eyes of Yellen and Biden, the tariff package is a face-saving project to "get the best of both worlds." According to the analysis of the US media, this version of the tariff plan does target China's electric vehicles, but China's exports of electric vehicles to the US market are already very small.
Yellen
Therefore, making a fuss about trams is enough to attract attention and help earn votes, but it does not touch too much of China's actual cake. So in Biden's logic, China can bear with it and give him face, and the matter will pass. But if you really believe this set of rhetoric, you will be fooling the United States.
As the world's largest economy and global financial hegemon, the U.S. policy plays an important role as a bellwether in the world, especially in the West. If China really swallows its anger, then the United States will definitely not stop there, but ask Europe, Japan and South Korea to follow up on the policy, and it will be too late for China to regret it.
The Biden administration and the U.S. media think that fabricating such a narrative can fool China and deceive it, but they think too highly of themselves and China's strategic wisdom.
China and the United States
In the Russian direction, the divine logic of the United States can be summed up in four words as wishful thinking. Recently, Russia has fully shifted to the stage of strategic counteroffensive on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine. At this point, Ukraine will not be able to hold out on the battlefield. Not to mention weapons and equipment, resources and energy, let's just say that the most core factor is that Ukraine is almost out of place.
According to the current rhythm of the consumption of Ukrainian soldiers, as fast as half a year or as slow as a year, Zelensky will really have to fight for NATO to the last Ukrainian. In such a situation, whether it is the United States or Ukraine, even in order to stop losses in time, the most important thing to do is to cool down the situation and strive to sit down at the negotiating table with Russia as soon as possible.
But the United States has done the opposite. On May 13, Biden officially signed a bill to initiate a ban on unirradiated low-enriched uranium produced in Russia. Biden may want to show that he has made a difference in the war in Ukraine, but the problem is that the United States and the West have issued so many bans against Russia before, and even dropped a "financial nuclear bomb", but it turned out to be useless at all.
Putin
This kind of strategy toward Russia, which has been proven to be completely wrong, is still used repeatedly by the United States with wishful thinking, fantasizing that adding more will lead to a qualitative change, and this mentality can almost be called pathological in a sense. What is the result of this round of sanctions? Lavrov has openly stated that Russia and the United States and the West have nothing to talk about, and everyone will see the truth on the battlefield.
The chances of the United States emerging from the Ukraine crisis are becoming increasingly remote. The United States is not only logical with China and Russia, but also with countries such as India, ASEAN, Japan, and South Korea. If it is said that in the face of an opponent, the United States hopes that the opponent will not fight back and scold back; Then for "friends", the United States also treats each other as fools.
They always think that after shouting some slogans of democracy, freedom, and cooperation, the other side will be able to bring their own food and grass and take the initiative to serve the national interests of the United States. For example, in order to draw the Philippines into dealing with China in the South China Sea, the United States has announced that it will build a small circle of "small detachments" composed of the United States, Japan, the Philippines and Australia on the basis of the existing four-party dialogue between the United States, Japan, India, and Australia.
Bijiri
Before pulling this small group, the United States continued to reassure India that it had new friends, which does not mean that it forgot its old friends, and the "small team" is only a supplement to the US Indo-Pacific strategy and will not affect India's status. But Modi is not stupid and does not eat this set at all. After the meeting between the United States, Japan, the Philippines and Australia, India began to jump ship on the back foot, not only taking action to stabilize the border situation with China, but also starting to sell arms to Russia.
Indian media broke the news that India and Iran recently reached an unprecedented investment agreement to help Tehran build a port. The attitude of the United States toward ASEAN, Japan, and South Korea is also half-hearted. Recently, the United States has done a very abstract thing, on the one hand, it has supported Israel at the United Nations, and on the other hand, it has gone to Malaysia, a Muslim country, and asked the other side to cooperate with the United States in pressuring Iran to cut off the sea transportation channel of Iranian oil tankers.
The Malaysian leader directly said that we only recognize the United Nations sanctions, and you, the United States, cannot control our country. Indonesia is even more blunt: After the United States released the news of the deployment of medium-range missiles in the Philippines, Indonesia's president-elect visited China for the first time and expressed the hope of strengthening military cooperation between the two countries.
U.S.A., ASEAN
The United States has set its sights on China and is bent on arming the Philippines, and as a result, it has offended all the major ASEAN countries. No matter how much the ASEAN countries try to maintain friendly relations with the United States, they will not be able to withstand the US military's riotous operation of deploying missiles at their doorstep twice in three days.
Not to mention Japan and South Korea. In the past month, in order to preserve the yen exchange rate, the Bank of Japan has thrown out a large amount of foreign exchange reserves, and the Fed has pulled to the limit, refusing to become the "soul under the knife" of the Fed's scythe. South Korea announced that it would launch a 10 trillion won semiconductor subsidy project to hedge against the "inflation bill" of the United States and save its own semiconductor industry. The U.S. "Indo-Pacific strategy" is about to collapse.
The United States has completely cut off the path of diplomacy with its own divine logic. Now under Biden's leadership, the international environment of the United States has ushered in the most dangerous moment, not to mention reshaping global influence, not to turn the United States into a world island.
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