(Essential questions) Short comment: Why does the United States play the human rights card and get involved in China's photovoltaic industry?
China News Service, Beijing, May 17th. Title: Why is the United States involved in China's photovoltaic industry when playing the human rights card?
China News Agency reporter Nie Zhixin
After cotton, Xinjiang's photovoltaic industry has also been eyed by Western forces.
Recently, U.S. politicians, industry organizations, and the media have successively labelled Xinjiang's solar equipment and parts manufacturing as "forced labor" in an attempt to push China's photovoltaic industry out of the international market.
In recent years, the "decoupling to China" card, which is based on the decoupling of the industrial chain and the decoupling of science and technology, has become a regular tool for Washington to confront Beijing.
That is, in accordance with the political needs of the United States, a certain industry in China, especially a superior industry, will be regarded as an "imaginary enemy", and allies will be encircled and suppressed.
Hami Shichengzi Photovoltaic Industrial Park.
Photo by Chen Jianjun
Over the years, it has contained Chinese technology companies, cut off the supply of Chinese chips, advocated the withdrawal of U.S. companies from China, stigmatized Xinjiang cotton and solar equipment... Whether it is China’s leading 5G technology, textile industry, new energy industry, foreign investment attraction , Or China's chip industry that relies on external imports, has suffered a targeted blow from the US "customized stick".
The former president of the United States must call "America first", and the current president of the United States defined China as "the most severe competitor."
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee passed the "Strategic Competition Act of 2021" not long ago, which has strong implications for China.
In layman's terms, the attitude of the United States towards China is: Where I am stronger than you, I will get stuck on your neck; if you are stronger than me, I will exclude you; how to exclude the most efficient?
Public opinion builds up momentum and cooperates with national actions.
New energy is a focus of the current US government's infrastructure plan, and the photovoltaic industry is also related to the "right to speak" in the climate field. In this context, how can it be an accidental coincidence for the US to discredit the performance of China's photovoltaic industry?
Based on this, the above incidents allowed the outside world to see the true and false "ism, business, interests" and "ethics, commerce, and politics" of the American operation mixed with each other.
In the name of so-called "national security", to discredit Chinese companies for stealing data overseas is actually cleaning up competitors for the US technology industry; from the so-called human rights standpoint, they hype up false information such as "forced labor" in Xinjiang, interfere with international perceptions, and attempt to combat China's related industries and Xinjiang will contain China.
However, the United States is not clever in its "decoupling" card.
American chip giants have lost Chinese orders and affected R&D investment. Western big names that resist Xinjiang cotton have changed their tone. The US photovoltaic market share is difficult to shake the trend of China’s photovoltaic industry... The US "Foreign Affairs" magazine has analyzed that choosing to cut off relations with China may lead to The United States is out of touch with the world.
Power workers are forming towers.
Photo by Huang Junhui
For decades, the "complex demand and labyrinthine supply chain network" has been established between China and the United States in economics and trade.
Decoupling the industrial chain is like shooting a boomerang, hitting others, but it hurts itself.
"I hope we can separate intellectual property rights, human rights and other things from trade to some extent, and continue to encourage the two economic giants to build a free trade environment."-This perception of the American business elite represents "a rational America." "The voice of the heart.
From a pragmatic point of view, forcibly changing business rules in an unwarranted manner will not really solve the heart disease of the United States to contain China, but it will backfire on related industries in the United States.
Originally, win-win cooperation is the way to realize the progress of human civilization.
Nowadays, American politicians are doing everything possible to deter China. All kinds of performances have made people see through the morality of "the'little' coming under the leather robe" (Chinese writer Lu Xun's words), it turned out to be so unbearable!
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