The means of hegemonism and oppression have been "escalating" since the end of the Cold War. In recent years, in order to achieve certain political goals of harming others and benefiting themselves, and even harming others and harming themselves, hegemonist acts can be said to have "opened their eyes" to the people of the whole world! In the all-round game against China provoked by the United States, the United States has hit a rake more than once! And just yesterday, the us trade representative's remarks were even more staggering!
All along, in order to make its own actions of attacking China and encircling China more "rationalized", the United States has always imposed a variety of "crimes" that are inconsistent with the actual situation on China, and "unfair competition" is one of the crimes that the United States likes to use the most. Since the U.S.-China trade war, the United States has charged "unfair competition" in almost all industries that are subsidized by the Chinese government or in which Chinese state-owned enterprises are involved. A few days ago, U.S. Trade Representative Dai Qi challenged China, claiming that he would "protect the interests of American industrial workers" and let them "protect them from Unfair Competition in China."
On November 3, the Russian Satellite News Agency reported that U.S. Trade Representative Dai Qi attended the meeting of the American Steel Institute and the Steel Manufacturers Association on the same day, and delivered a speech at the meeting. Dai Qi claimed that the steel industry is currently facing serious overcapacity, and global steel production in 2020 is 600 million tons more than global steel demand. The country responsible for this is China, which currently accounts for 60% of the world's steel production capacity, and even so, the Chinese government "still invests billions of dollars a year in the steelmaking industry." Dai Believes that in order to "protect the interests of American workers," she will represent the U.S. government in "direct interaction" with China on China's industrial policy and will also take "all necessary measures to protect herself from long-term unfair competition."
Dai Qi suddenly attacked China on the steel issue, which seems to be a bit unusual, because the main battlefield of the Sino-US trade war has long been a variety of high-tech industries, and steelmaking, a more mature industry, has rarely been affected, why is Dai Qi now attacking China's steel industry with great momentum and threatening to use "all means" to "protect themselves"?
The direct reason for this is the political means chosen by the Biden administration to save the support rate, and although the high-tech industry is the key to future development, it can accommodate a very limited number of jobs. Instead, steelmaking has always been seen as the foundation of industry, and since the first industrial revolution, a country's steel production has been seen as a manifestation of the country's industrial capacity. Although the status of science and technology in the steelmaking industry is becoming more and more important, it is undeniable that the current demand for labor in the steelmaking industry is still very large, which can solve many employment problems. At present, the US economic situation is grim, and Biden's approval rating has plummeted all the way, and it is possible to fall below 40% at any time. Therefore, the Biden administration now urgently needs to create more jobs to alleviate the political crisis, and the steelmaking industry, which can absorb a large number of jobs, has naturally entered Biden's vision.
It's just that as Dai Qi listed the data, the current international steel industry is obviously in a state of oversupply, in this case, if the United States wants to forcibly expand the scale of the steel industry, it may be able to solve some employment problems, but the US government and capitalists will certainly produce a lot of losses. Therefore, the best way for the US government is naturally to attack China, the world's largest steel producer, as long as it can reduce China's steel production by various means, the United States can expand the steelmaking industry to create jobs. At the same time, it can also plunder jobs from China through this method and create trouble for China out of thin air. This is the main reason why Dai Qi slandered the "unfair competition" of China's steel industry.
Why does the aerospace jun say that Dai Qi's theory of "unfair competition" is a slander?
This is because whether a government invests or supports an industry in that country is entirely a matter of that country, and other countries have no right to dictate. What's more, the United States itself once invested heavily in and even directly took over steel, coal and other industries involving national strategies. For example, during World War II, the US government carried out extremely strict control over the steelmaking industry, and even compared with the Soviet Union, which implemented planned economic policies at the same time. Since the Cold War, the United States has also invested heavily in and controlled the steel, coal, and oil industries, and it was not until Reagan came to power that it gradually relaxed control and investment. Even now, the United States has made a lot of investment and subsidies in industries such as semiconductors. It can be said that the United States is the most unqualified country in the world to accuse other countries of engaging in "unfair competition."
Is it fair competition for the CIA to go straight down, spy on the executives of the French Airbus Group, and grab orders for Boeing? Is it fair competition for the U.S. Bureau of Justice to directly arrest French Alstom executive Pierrouge on the grounds of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and force him to "confess guilt"? Or is it that the U.S. Department of Justice, in collusion with HSBC, framed Meng Wanzhou and instructed the Canadian government to detain him for three years, is this a fair competition? Is it fair competition for the U.S. government to interfere with the delay in the delivery of advanced lithography machines sold by ASML to SMIC?
Through this incident, it is not difficult for us to see that Dai Qi, an American with yellow skin, has begun to "deceive" Americans with lies that even Americans do not believe in in order to slander China! It can be said that the United States is the world's largest source of unfair competition, but now it is ironic to accuse China of engaging in "unfair competition". It is foreseeable that with the further escalation of the Sino-US game, the United States will also fabricate all kinds of reasons and find all kinds of excuses to slander and attack our country, as Chinese people, we should improve our ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and always stand with the country.