China News Service: "Seeking openness" and "decoupling", reflecting two "world views"

　　BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua)

　　Author: Kim Long Run

　　Since the outbreak of the Sino-US trade dispute, the term "decoupling" has appeared in the public eye every once in a while.

In particular, as the new crown epidemic continues to spread in the United States and the election date is approaching, some American politicians have repeatedly heated up related topics, and they are not tired of it.

　　In May of this year, US President Trump claimed that “cutting off all ties with China could save 500 billion US dollars.” In June, he threatened that “complete decoupling” between the United States and China was still a policy option.

In August, he remarked that "China and the United States can decouple, and the United States can not do business with China."

Recently, he again mentioned decoupling, declaring that all important jobs would be transferred from China back to the United States.

　　In fact, whenever Trump makes such strange talks, it will inevitably arouse criticism in the United States and abroad.

Public opinion generally believes that the close economic relationship between China and the United States and the forced separation of existing cooperation completely violates the laws of market economy.

Trying to solve the problems faced by oneself through decoupling is completely finding the wrong prescription.

Persistent decoupling will inevitably hurt both, and seriously endanger the global industrial chain supply chain.

　　The 2020 "China Business Environment Survey" report released by the US-China Business Council in August showed that American companies operating in China do not want to leave the Chinese market. They are still relatively optimistic about China's business prospects in the next five years.

　　It should be noted that Trump's remarks not only cannot withstand scrutiny, but also have obvious election implications.

Trump’s move was to divert voters’ attention and shirk his own responsibility for ineffective fight against the epidemic; on the other hand, to cater to populist sentiment, he set up a tough “personal setting” to win votes against China.

From a longer-term perspective, these remarks show that some American politicians are trying to gain more development opportunities for the United States by decoupling, and believe that they can use this to contain China's development and avoid challenges to the United States' global hegemony.

　　Looking at it from another angle, these remarks actually reflect a narrow "world view."

Most American politicians who are keen on "decoupling" see the world from a static, closed, and exclusive perspective.

This kind of "world view" directly leads to their reluctance to face the objective reality and historical laws of economic globalization, and even less to delve into the mystery of China's growth into the world's second largest economy; they seem to only care about how to maintain the "old glory". It only cares how to achieve conquest with absolute strength.

　　In sharp contrast, China has always been "seeking openness," and has always integrated into the world with an open mind, seeking to have a benign interaction with the world.

Even though the uncertainty of the external environment continues to increase, China still firmly believes that peace and development are the themes of the times, the interests of all countries are highly integrated, and mankind is a community with a shared future.

Under the guidance of this "world view", China has successively introduced a number of measures to expand opening up while promoting the resumption of work and production after the epidemic, injecting commendable stability into the current complex world.

　　On the 21st of this month, China announced the overall plan for the Beijing, Hunan, and Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zones and the expansion plan for the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone.

So far, the number of pilot free trade zones has increased to 21, covering most of China.

A day later, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech at the general debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly, “We must uphold the concept of openness and tolerance, unswervingly build an open world economy, and safeguard the multilateralism based on the World Trade Organization. The trade system has a clear-cut stand against unilateralism and protectionism, and maintains the stability and smooth flow of the global industrial chain and supply chain."

　　In the field of international public opinion, the two "world views" of "seeking openness" and "decoupling" have received completely bipolar evaluations.

One party has received international praise one after another, and the other party continues to lose its reputation.

Which is higher and lower, needless to say.

　　It is foreseeable that China, which has found the right direction, will continue to follow the path of opening up.

Facts have proved that this choice conforms to the general trend.

At the same time, there is an urgent need for the United States to correct its mentality, view and handle Sino-US relations in a correct way, and get back on track as soon as possible.

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