As U.S.-China relations continued to spiral into tension, the United States began to rally its allies in an attempt to contain China by all means. Their most common tactic is sanctions, and they serve their own interests. In this case, there was a news that made the Chinese people excited, which also heralded that China began to fight back against the West, and anyone who dared to oppose China again should be careful of being pulled out.
According to a number of official media reports, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress recently passed the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Anti-Foreign Sanctions," which is a major piece of legislation that people have been waiting for for a long time. In recent years, the West has successively imposed sanctions on China under various pretexts, although China countered sanctions at the first time, but now with the "Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law", China's counterattack will be more confident.
Although the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law is not long, it can provide a legal basis for China's counterattack later. Huo Zhengxin, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, said: "With this law, Chinese companies, entities and individuals will have a more sufficient legal basis for defending their rights in the future." Previously, China's countermeasures against foreign sanctions were basically administrative countermeasures, and the intensity was not too great, but after the promulgation of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, China's countermeasures will be more powerful.
From a practical point of view, the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Act does have such energy, and such a law is undoubtedly quite useful in the context of the United States co-opting allies to sanction China. Russia is at the forefront of China in this regard, as early as 2018, Russia introduced the "Law on Measures to Counter the Unfriendly Behavior of the United States and Other Countries", which can be seen from the name, which is directly directed at the United States. Now that China has such a law, it will inevitably go further in countering US sanctions.
It is worth noting that a few days ago, the US Senate passed the "2021 US Innovation and Competition Act", which is clearly aimed at China, and has been approved by the vast majority of the two parties in the United States, and the two parties with large differences have made a unanimous choice, which is relatively rare in the United States. In the final analysis, this is the first move of the United States, China will not fight back and scold and do not return the mouth, now it is just a normal response. In recent years, the United States has sanctioned China, from the trade war sanctions against China's technology companies, to sanctions on China's social media, as well as Biden's sanctions on China's military enterprises and some other companies after taking office, the United States has made too many moves, why can't China fight back?
Some people and countries do not teach them a lesson, they do not know how to converge, and they do not know that China is not good to provoke, and if they insist on provoking, they will definitely be fiercely cleaned up. Chinese people love peace and are willing to develop good relations with other countries, they are definitely not afraid of US sanctions, and the name of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Act just shows this. This law does not advocate first-hand sanctions, but only fights back after other countries are unkind, which just shows that this law is essentially a countermeasure, rather than seeking active sanctions like the United States. It is completely untenable to criticize China for engaging in hegemonism in this way.
The hegemonism and power politics of the United States cannot last forever, and the rise of peace-loving countries like China and Russia cannot be snuffed out by the United States. If the United States continues to sanction China, then this bill will be used on the United States for the first time.
(Editor: MWL)