BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) title: "America First" is just whitewash on the "American bullying," the
Author: Chen Nian
US Secretary of State Pompeo recently delivered a speech at the Nixon Presidential Library in California, intending to completely deny the history of exchanges between China and the United States since the establishment of diplomatic relations. It is also full of "China subverts the rules-based order established by various countries" and "China seeks to establish world hegemony." Such slander was criticized by American think tanks as "do not understand history, do not understand China, nor the United States."
"Ning believe that there are ghosts in the world, and don't believe in the mouths of American politicians." This sentence, which is popular on the Internet, exposes the addictive aspect of American politicians' lies and reminds people that they should use lies to catch "outside the lies." Pompeo's accusation of China breaking rules and seeking hegemony is precisely to expose the "American bullying" routines that the United States has been familiar with in recent years, and on the contrary expose the true ambitions of the current US government.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has recently broken through the essence of "American bullying" on many occasions-the United States "takes national priority as the standard of conduct, pushes unilateralism and bullying to the extreme, and does not hesitate to abandon international responsibilities and multilateral rules." "Nakedly pursuing the country's priority policy, pushing egoism, unilateralism, and bullying to the extreme, where is there what a big country should look like".
A big country should have a "big" appearance, standing on the right side of history, defending and perfecting international rules, and taking the role of a big country to promote global governance. However, as the country with the strongest overall strength, the United States has regarded "big" as willful in recent years. The thick black capital that broke contracts, bullied the weak, and exerted extreme pressure has allowed countries to see what it means to be "big and unscrupulous" and "big and misguided."
In order to whitewash unilateral and bullying behaviors, the current US government has also used the slogan "America First" to cater to populism. Putting one's own self-interest above the interests of other countries and the welfare of the world is essentially an "American privilege", the privilege of the United States to bully others willfully.
Since the current U.S. government came to power, "American bullying" has continued to grow, the list of victims has continued to grow, and the index of world unrest has continued to rise. There are the following three types of typical performance.
The first is to despise the international order, betray the cooperation agreement, and "break the contract and leave the group" is like a child's play.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Iran Nuclear Agreement, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, UNESCO, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization... This is an incomplete international organization or treaty that the United States has withdrawn from The list covers many fields such as economy and trade, environmental protection, culture, security, human rights, public health, etc. The withdrawal button of "international groups" such as the "Open Sky Treaty" may also be pressed by the United States at any time.
As Wang Yi summarized, the number of international treaties withdrawn by the current US government has surpassed any previous US administration and has become the biggest disruptor of the current international order.
These international organizations or treaties are the products of the operation of modern political civilization and the pillars of maintaining international order and promoting global governance. Many of them were created under the leadership of the United States in the past. But now, as long as someone in the organization doesn't follow their own will, as long as things progress beyond their own control, as long as the organization believes that the organization is partial to others, the United States will immediately resort to the "retirement" trick. The combination is used, and the difference is discarded, which fully exposes the United States' intention to "instrument" these international organizations, which runs counter to the Fairplay spirit advocated by the West.
"Withdrawing from the group" is just a means, but the purpose? Re-establish a new order in which the United States insists on one thing. The world has entered a new era of multipolarization, but the United States still misses the old days of dominating the world. Which country does not tremble with such a "new order"?
The second is to bully the weak, abuse state power to crush commercial entities, and stage "textbook bullying."
Either compulsorily acquire or withdraw from the US market. If the acquisition route is taken, the US government will also collect an "intermediary fee". Recently, the US government's bullying of the short video software tiktok (parent company is a Chinese company) has attracted international public opinion. Labeled "Eat too ugly".
Such a company considered by US security experts that “there is no evidence that TikTok will harm the interests of American countries” is because its “Chinese genes” have been so politically suppressed in the “free market” of the United States. Bloomberg said that the US government intends to get a share of a non-government-owned company's transaction, which is unprecedented in American modern history, and it is not clear under what authority it will receive the money.
Commercially, it can't compete, and political power will settle the situation. The United States has tried repeatedly. Without any real evidence, the United States unscrupulously contained and suppressed Huawei, a Chinese private enterprise, on a global scale, deducting a "textbook-style bullying" in order to maintain its technological monopoly.
This unabashed hegemony "not only undermines fair international trade rules, but also undermines a free global market environment." Chinese technology companies have suffered greatly. Will technology companies in other countries have "freedom-free gold medals"?
The third is that it doesn't matter how close relatives are or is not close to each other, and it does not hesitate to pack allies.
European countries are the traditional allies of the United States, but the current US government does not put allies in its eyes and uses allies to make operations. From asking European countries to increase NATO military spending, to not letting European countries go to trade blackmail, to tearing their faces with Europe during the anti-epidemic period, to the inexorable digital tax turmoil, the "transatlantic rift" is visible to the naked eye. Speed expands.
During the fight against the new crown epidemic, European countries’ anti-epidemic supplies were intercepted, the monopoly of vaccines was “captured” under the banner of US priority, and they refused to participate in the EU-sponsored international anti-epidemic fundraising video summit... Polls by the European Commission for External Relations show that Europeans do Trust the United States under Trump's leadership, especially the French and Germans; the proportion of respondents who believe that the United States is a "key ally" during the crisis is very small.
In the era of digital economy, the game between Europe and the United States revolves around digital taxes. U.S. technology giants such as Apple, Google, and Facebook are profitable in doing business in Europe, but pay very little tax under the protection of the traditional tax system. France is the first to impose a digital tax on US Internet companies and promotes a new multilateral consensus on international tax rules. The United States is "unhappy" and has imposed a 25% tariff on French goods. It has also launched investigations into many countries that have or plan to impose digital taxes. Public opinion believes that trade tensions between Europe and the United States may detonate at any time.
This is the logic of the United States: the rules that are unfavorable to me will be discarded, and the rules that are beneficial to me cannot be changed even if they are outdated, otherwise they will "touch my cheese." European countries recognize that Europe must be stronger in order to cope with the unilateralism of the United States.
"American bullying" is like a huge black hole, eroding the positive energy of "making the world more orderly, more reasonable and beautiful" and eroding the efforts of human society to build rules and systems. Such a hegemonic, selfish and selfish America is by no means a blessing for the world. (Finish)