According to recent REPORTs by the US media, Thomas Friedman, an American commentator who is famous for "The World is Flat," published an article entitled "China No Longer Respects the United States — It Is Reasonable," pointing out that it is an indisputable fact that the United States has lost "respect." Whenever he points this out, far-right critics respond absurdly by saying, "Oh, so you love China." In fact, Friedman, as an American, cares about the United States, and his constant comments and speeches aim to make more Americans realize that China really values national education, building infrastructure, forging ahead in business and science, and being meritocratic in promoting officials.
If the United States cannot do as well as China in these areas, or if the United States cannot do the right thing as it has historically done, then simply blaming China will be useless. Sometimes even comedians look at foreign policy issues more thoroughly than diplomats. A few weeks ago, American comedian Bill Maher, in his talk about U.S.-China relations, pointedly to the most disturbing contrast between the United States and China: china can still do great things, while the United States does not. For many of America's political leaders, governing the country has become a sport, a recreational program, and even a brainless tribal war.
No wonder China sees the United States as in a phase of imperial decline, surviving the embers of "American exceptionalism." Emotions cannot blind the truth. "At the national level, we've had Infrastructure Week every week since 2009, but we've never had any action," Maher said. When China sees a problem, they solve it. If they build a dam, we're talking about renaming it or how China's dams are harmful to the environment.
Some extremist politicians have begun to suggest that the United States boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. But the problem is that the competition that the United States really needs to pay attention to is not the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the 2025 "Olympic Games.". China unilaterally announced the right to host the 2025 Olympics in 2015 and said there were only two contenders, namely China and the United States. This is the "Made in China 2025" plan proposed by the Chinese government. Trump wants to get China to cancel the plan by launching a trade war. As a result, the chinese media rarely mention the name of the plan, but it is clear that the plan itself is firmly advancing, and because of the high-tech blockade policy that has continued from Trump to Biden, its determination has been strengthened.
Thomas Friedman concluded by declaring that the message he wanted to convey to his fellow Americans was that "now we must go back to the secret of our success and redouble our bets." As for China, Friedman advises "Beware, the United States is still ahead in many areas, and if it is too inflated now, it will lose." Text/py