Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16 -
Title: stained misdeeds!
The United States is the biggest destroyer of the international peace environment after World War II
Xinhua News Agency reporter
"If any country in the early 21st century seeks to dominate the world, coerce other countries, and flout the rules, it is the United States." The New York Times wrote in an op-ed in October last year.
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1776, the United States has initiated continuous expansion: the Westward Movement, the American-Mexico War, and the Spanish-American War... Relying on money, blackmail, and force, the United States has an area of approximately 800,000 square kilometers from the beginning of the founding of the nation to approximately 800,000 square kilometers. 9.37 million square kilometers, a full expansion of more than 10 times.
After World War II, the United States has become the world's strongest superpower in terms of overall strength. It has not changed its expansion genes and spared no effort to fight for and maintain global hegemony.
Relying on its advantages in military, economic, technological, and cultural fields, the United States frequently interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, bullying, plundering, and controlling other countries under the banner of "freedom, democracy, and human rights."
After the Second World War, successive U.S. administrations pursued hegemonic policies: from the Truman administration’s containment strategy, to the Nixon administration’s realistic deterrence strategy, to the Bush administration’s "preemptive strike" strategy, the construction and maintenance of U.S. hegemony are its core strategic goals; In recent US administrations, including the Obama administration’s “smart power” strategy, the Trump administration’s “America first” policy, and the Biden administration’s “better reconstruction” of the United States, the fundamental purpose is still to ensure U.S. hegemony.
In today’s world, the hegemony, hegemony, and bullying of the United States are obvious to all: fanning the flames everywhere, instigating wars and creating confrontations, using force to overthrow other countries’ regimes, and leaving many parts of the world caught in war and turmoil; pursuing the "American exception" and ignoring double standards. International law and international rules apply to international organizations, treaties, and agreements if they are combined, or discard them if they do not agree, and seriously hinder international cooperation; manipulate the international financial system, plunder huge wealth, condone greedy speculation, and trigger global financial crises; arbitrarily implement long-arm jurisdiction and frequently Wield the big stick of tariffs, provoke trade disputes everywhere, and use all means to attack opponents; manipulate international public opinion, force the export of American values, and engage in cultural aggression against other countries...
Countless facts tell the world that the United States is the real disruptor of international rules and world order, and it is the source of increasing instability and uncertainty in the world today.
U.S. hegemonism and power politics disrupt the global order, threaten the peace of mankind, bring serious consequences to the world, and become the biggest challenge threatening the progress of civilization and peaceful development of human society.
Well-known American scholars such as Noam Chomsky and Robert Kagan pointed out more than once that the United States has become a "rogue superpower."
The United States is the biggest source of chaos in the world
"The history of the United States is a history of war and expansion. While improving the international status of the United States, war has profoundly changed the way the United States acts and the way of life of the people...War is the way of life of the Americans." American historian, Massachusetts Paul Atwood, a senior lecturer at the University of Boston, wrote in his book "War and Empire: The American Way of Life" published in 2010.
Looking at the history of the United States, it is not difficult to find that "shangwu" and "military" are written in the American genes.
The United States was born, grew, and became a superpower in wars, slavery, and massacres. Its appearance on the international stage and its increasing influence are all related to major wars.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter mentioned in a speech in June 2019 that the U.S. has not fought a war for only 16 years in the 240-plus years of history since the founding of the nation, and it can be called "the most war-fighting country in the history of the world."
The US magazine "National Interest" quoted Dakota Wood, a senior researcher on the Defense Project of the Heritage Foundation, as saying that the United States is involved in a war every 15 years on average.
This belligerent tradition did not disappear after the United States became a superpower.
More and more people are seeing that no country in the world today is like the United States, so keen on overseas intervention, and launching or participating in foreign wars so frequently.
Military power is an important pillar of U.S. global hegemony.
In order to maintain its hegemony, the United States often flagrantly violates the purpose of the UN Charter and the norms of international law, relying on its super military strength, directly launching wars, creating divisions and conflicts, and bringing turbulence to the world.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has launched or participated in many wars overseas, such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War. It not only claimed a large number of military lives, but also caused extremely serious civilian casualties and property losses, resulting in huge losses. Humanitarian disaster.
The most typical example is the Iraq War.
In 2003, the United States, in spite of the general opposition of the international community, launched the Iraq war on unwarranted charges.
According to the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs statistics, at least 180,000 to 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in this war.
The coalition forces headed by the United States are also using a large number of depleted uranium bombs and white phosphorous bombs in Iraq, seriously endangering the local ecological environment and people's health.
According to official Iraqi statistics, before the 1991 Gulf War, the incidence of cancer in Iraq was an average of 40 per 100,000 people. By 2005, this proportion had soared to at least 1,600 per 100,000 people.
A report released by the US anti-war organization "Pink Code" in March this year showed that in the past 20 years, the United States and its allies have frequently bombed other countries, dropping more than 40 bombs and missiles on average every day.
In late February this year, shortly after the Biden administration came to power, the US military launched an air strike on eastern Syria.
Many parties strongly condemn the United States for violating international law and violating Syrian sovereignty.
Behind the U.S. military's indiscriminate bombing overseas is the continued high military expenditure of the United States.
The 2020 Global Military Expenditure Trend Report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden in April this year showed that as the world’s largest military expenditure country, the United States’ military expenditure in 2020 increased by 4.4% over the previous year, marking the third consecutive year of growth, reaching a total of 778 billion. Dollar.
The United States accounted for 39% of total global military expenditures, up from 38% the previous year.
According to the fiscal year 2022 budget plan submitted by the Biden administration to Congress, the total defense budget is $753 billion, an increase of 1.7% from 2021.
However, the frequent overseas military operations and huge military expenditures of the United States benefit only a few American politicians and arms giants, but harm the interests of the vast majority of American people and pose a serious threat to world peace and stability.
Stephen Walter, professor of international relations at Harvard University, wrote on the website of "Foreign Policy" magazine that the United States has released militarism, xenophobia, pseudo-patriotism, and incitement in the "endless war" abroad, all of which are related to sound The civic morality on which a democratic system relies runs counter to.
The Center for American Progress published an article in May this year that the United States’ defense budget today is more than it spent at the height of the Cold War, surpassing the total defense budgets of the next 10 countries, and accounting for more than half of the federal government’s discretionary budget. , But "no matter how much military spending the US government spends, it cannot buy perfect national security."
The article believes that the U.S. government should spend more money on improving U.S. infrastructure and responding to the new crown epidemic, rather than spending on new nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, and fighter jets that destabilize the world.
Erica Fein, the head of the Washington-based anti-war organization "Victory Without Fighting", said bluntly that there has never been a military solution to major global threats, including the new crown epidemic, climate change, and economic inequality.
The U.S. government cuts its investment in public products and continues to uncontrollably provide resources to arms dealers, ultimately only jeopardizing the security of the country and the world.
Consistently double standards, "American anti-terrorism" creates a "security black hole"
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United States sending troops to Afghanistan under the banner of anti-terrorism.
The war in Afghanistan, which lasted for nearly 20 years, surpassed the Vietnam War and became the longest war in American history. It not only plunged the United States and its allies into the "imperial cemetery", but also brought serious disasters to the Afghan people, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of civilians and thousands of lives. Thousands of people have been displaced or become refugees.
In the end, the United States hurriedly withdrew its troops in order to get out of the quagmire of war.
U.S. President Biden announced in April this year that the U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan would be completely withdrawn by September 11, and then moved forward to August 31.
With the accelerated withdrawal of the United States and NATO, the Afghan Taliban quickly launched an offensive and continued to capture major cities and towns.
On August 15, Mohamed Naim, the spokesperson of the Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar, announced that Taliban fighters had entered and controlled Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and that "the war in Afghanistan is over."
On August 16, Biden admitted that the situation in Afghanistan was deteriorating faster than the US expected, but he shifted more responsibility to the Afghan government and the previous US government. At the same time, he insisted that the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was a correct decision in the interests of the United States.
Today, 20 years after the "September 11" incident and the United States spent 2 trillion US dollars in Afghanistan, the United States has ushered in a sad moment of the "fall of Kabul."
Former Afghan President Karzai criticized that the United States came to Afghanistan to claim that it was to fight extremism and to bring stability to the war-torn country, but it failed in both respects.
In fact, behind the wars, chaos and turmoil in many parts of the world, almost all have the United States.
After the "September 11" incident in 2001, counter-terrorism became the focus of US national security and foreign policy.
Since then, the United States has guided the anti-terrorist war with the Cold War mentality, and frequently used the name of "national security" and "defense freedom" to promote "American anti-terrorism" globally in accordance with double standards. "Anti-terrorism" is used as a tool to eliminate dissidents.
The U.S. military used drones to remove Soleimani, the commander of the "Quds Brigade" of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and allowed Israel to launch airstrikes on Syria, Lebanon and other countries, and severely violated the sovereignty of the countries concerned. The US-led counter-terrorism operations have become its defense. Hegemony, a tool to promote American democracy and values, and the result is that a large number of civilians have become victims, the refugee problem has worsened, the regional situation is turbulent, and security threats have overflowed.
These so-called "counter-terrorism" actions were accompanied by the US's gross violation of human rights and freedoms in other countries, as evidenced by the scandals that shocked the world by US military prisoners torture in Afghanistan and Iraq.
According to statistics from the Smithsonian Institution Magazine of the United States, since 2001, wars and military operations launched by the United States in the name of "anti-terrorism" have fully covered "approximately 40% of the countries on this planet."
According to data from the Brown University "War Cost" project, these so-called "anti-terrorism" wars have claimed more than 800,000 lives, displaced more than 38 million people, and cost more than US$8 trillion.
However, no matter how many innocent lives are in the eyes of the United States, it is only a string of cold numbers.
The United States is accustomed to playing with double standards on counter-terrorism issues, entirely for the needs of US domestic politics and foreign policy.
The United States often reacts fiercely and resolutely strikes against terrorist attacks against itself and its allies; while for such incidents in other countries, US officials and public opinion are often indifferent.
The "East Turkestan Islamic Movement" ("East Iraq Movement") has been engaged in anti-China separatist and extreme violence activities within and outside China for a long time, causing huge casualties and property losses to the Chinese people. It was included on the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee sanctions list. It was also a co-sponsor of the "East-Iranian Movement" listing.
In recent years, the "Eastern Iraq Movement" has circulated in Afghanistan, Syria and other places, planning and implementing a series of violent terrorist activities, including the 2016 car bomb attack on the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan.
In November 2020, the United States publicly announced that it would withdraw the characterization of the terrorist organization of the "Eastern Iraqi Movement", claiming that there has been no reliable evidence to show that the "Eastern Iraqi Movement" continued to exist for more than a decade.
The United States "opens eyes and talks nonsense", unilaterally denies the "Eastern Iraq Movement" as a terrorist organization, and turns terrorism into a tool to contain other countries. The sinister intention of "containing China with terror" is clear.
Justice is in the hearts of the people.
In February of this year, the video "Ask about Chinese Muslims" shot by British Ruben Lawrence attracted attention.
In the video, this British brother urged everyone not to forget the fact that China has been fighting against the terrorist organization "Eastern Iraqi Movement". He pointed out that the United States had backtracked on this issue, treated people with double standards, and had impure motives. He urged the United States and Western allies stopped discrediting China, and they also called for Biden not to take the opportunity to interfere in China's internal affairs.
In addition, the United States is also cultivating a large number of anti-government forces around the world, many of which later became terrorist organizations and producers of international terrorist activities.
The American "dual-standard anti-terrorism" harms others and ourselves, and harms endlessly.
For example, after the Cuban Revolution, the United States sheltered a number of armed groups opposed to the Cuban government, and even acquiesced in setting up training camps in southern Florida.
In October 1976, a Cuban civil airliner exploded over Barbados, killing all 73 people on board.
Luis Posada, of Cuban origin and exile in the United States, is suspected of causing the crash and is wanted by Cuba, but the US government has never agreed to extradite him to Cuba.
In January this year, the U.S. State Department re-listed Cuba as a "country that supports terrorism."
Cuban Foreign Minister Rodriguez criticized the US's move as "hypocritical and cynical political opportunism."
The United States strongly supported the anti-government guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Stansfield Turner, the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, once testified before Congress: "I think that many of the guerrilla operations are terrorist in nature and are terrorist operations supported by the United States. This is indisputable."
Ironically, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan in the name of anti-terrorism in 2001, but in fact the terrorist tumor was caused by the United States itself.
During the Cold War, the United States used Afghanistan as a pawn against the Soviet Union, providing a large amount of weapons and money to extremist organizations, including bin Laden's forces, and encouraging them to fight the Soviet Union.
After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, the United States immediately abandoned these "friends" deemed worthless, making Afghanistan a sanctuary for international terrorism and extremism.
"Pink Code" co-founder Medea Benjamin and researcher of the organization Nicholas Davis wrote an article that if the Biden administration continues to accumulate more lies and atrocities on the basis of previous administrations, "it will not be able to win the world against the United States again." The respect of leadership cannot win the support of the American public for its foreign policy."
Interference addiction, the United States is the dirtiest hand of the "color revolution"
"Rather than let others dominate, it is better to do it yourself." This is the evaluation of the United States' pursuit of hegemony at any cost by Stephen Wertheim, a historian of Columbia University in the United States.
In order to maintain and consolidate its hegemony, the United States does everything possible, from plotting "peaceful evolution" to inciting "color revolutions", and even directly subverting the regimes of other countries.
In July this year, anti-government demonstrations broke out in parts of Cuba.
Evidence released by the Cuban government shows that since mid-June, some anti-Cuban forces in the United States, funded by the United States government, deliberately spread the lie that "the Cuban medical system collapsed under the new crown epidemic" through social networks, and used this as an excuse to incitement against Cuba. The purpose of military intervention is to subvert the Cuban regime.
The US government subsequently sanctioned Cuban military officials and entities on the grounds that the Cuban government "suppressed" the demonstrators.
The Cuban newspaper Grama also disclosed this year that in the past 20 years, agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and the National Foundation for Democracy have allocated nearly US$250 million for a series of incitement and subversion plans against Cuba.
Francesca López Civera, a historian at the University of Havana in Cuba, said that in recent years, the US government has often used "human rights" and "freedom" as the guise to pressure other countries and incite conflicts, with the purpose of stimulating power in countries with which it contradicts. Change and maintain the hegemony of the United States itself.
The international community clearly remembers that during the series of high-level meetings for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 2020, Cuban Foreign Minister Rodríguez tore down the United States' fig leaf in front of the world and denounced the United States for interfering in other countries’ internal affairs and pursuing hegemony crimes. To put it bluntly, "The United States is the greatest threat to international peace and security."
The United States is an "addict" who interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and a dirty "black hand" who incites internal disturbances in other countries.
In his book "Democracy: America's Deadliest Export", American writer William Bloom made the following statistics on American foreign intervention since the end of World War II: Attempts to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which were elected; Crudely interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries; tried to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
During the Cold War, the United States infiltrated, instigated rebellion, disrupted, and destroyed the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
Associate Professor O'Rourke at Boston College wrote in the book "Hidden Power Change: America's Secret Cold War" that in the 42 years from 1947 to 1989, the United States carried out 64 covert regime changes and 6 public actions. .
After the end of the Cold War, the United States unscrupulously promoted interventionism and frequently exported "color revolutions": At the end of 2003, Georgian President Shevardnadze was forced to resign on the grounds of "fraud" in the counting of votes in parliamentary elections and supported opposition leader Saka. Shivili came to power, the so-called "Rose Revolution"; in October 2004, he concocted the scandal of "fraud" in Ukraine's general election, instigated Uzbek youths to march in the streets, and supported Yushchenko to come to power, the so-called "Orange Revolution"; in March 2005, Inciting the Kyrgyz opposition to protest against the results of the parliamentary elections, which eventually caused riots. President Akayev was forced to flee and announced his resignation, the so-called "Tulip Revolution."
In the past 10 years, the United States has repeatedly intervened or manipulated the "color revolutions" in some countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and West Asia and North Africa.
The United States has extended its black hands to all parts of the world, funded opposition forces in other countries, incited the people to engage in "street revolutions," intensified political conflicts, subverted the current regime, supported political parties with weak foundations and heavily dependent on the United States and the West to come to power. The ultimate goal is to serve the interests of the United States.
The "black hands" of the United States opened the "Pandora's Box", leaving behind a mess of "color revolutions". The "Arab Spring" became the "Arab Winter". Many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa have been politically turbulent. Social conflicts have intensified, and people have been dragged into the abyss of disaster.
Take Kyrgyzstan as an example. According to public information from the United States Agency for International Development, the agency invested more than US$25 million in Kyrgyzstan in 2020 alone. The projects involved include "democratic governance", "safe immigration", and "support for legal justice".的名目。
Kyrgyzstan has experienced several abnormal power changes over the years.
Behind the series of "color revolutions" directed by the United States, a self-proclaimed "unofficial, non-profit" organization has a high rate of appearance. This is the National Foundation for Democracy of the United States, which is known as the "largest funder of color revolutions in the world."
This organization, established in 1983, has close ties with the U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It is known as the "white glove of the CIA". It engages in subversive activities and provides more than 1,600 grants each year for support. NGO projects in more than 90 countries.
The foundation is also the funder behind some separatist forces against China. It supports dozens of China-related projects every year. So far, it has provided about 100 million U.S. dollars in funding to more than 100 anti-China groups, including the "Tibetan Youth Association." The "World Utilities Committee" and other groups have been clearly identified as terrorist organizations by China.
A lot of funds for "Hong Kong Independence" activities also come from the foundation.
Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has publicly criticized more than once that the National Democracy Foundation "has almost nothing to do with democracy." Some overseas political parties or movements provide funds to engage in "color revolutions" instead of really promoting democratic movements."
Nowadays, more and more countries’ ruling parties and people realize that the “color revolution” is enough to destroy the evil nature of a country and nation.
History has repeatedly proved that when the "color revolution" approaches, peace and peace will go far, development and prosperity will be hindered, and in the end it is the innocent people who suffer.
Bloodthirsty, dollar hegemony shears the world's wool
"Capital comes to the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things." In Capital, Marx described the primitive accumulation process of capital that is full of conquering, enslaving, plundering, and killing.
It is equally apt to sum up the history of the American family in this sentence.
After World War II, the United States used the hegemony of the US dollar to make the creation and flow of wealth around the world serve the interests of the United States, thereby continuously "shearing wool" on a global scale.
The United States uses the hegemony of the dollar to push up financial risks in developing countries and plunder their wealth, including resources and real estate, or to obtain monopoly power in public service industries such as water, electricity, and transportation in these countries to make huge profits.
In Latin American countries that have implemented the "Washington Consensus," economic growth rates in the 1990s have dropped by an average of half compared with those in the 1980s.
The American economist John Perkins disclosed in the book "Confessions of an Economic Killer" published in 2004 that the "economic killer" of the United States wears the legal cloak of economists, bankers, and international financial consultants. Manipulate other countries by economic means, trick developing countries into falling into preset economic traps, control the economic lifeline and natural resources of these countries, and allow a steady stream of funds to flow into the United States to consolidate and expand the United States’ global economic, political, and military hegemony.
This phenomenon has long existed in the field of international trade: the United States prints U.S. dollars, and countries around the world replace resources and commodities with U.S. dollars in global trade, and then purchase U.S. Treasury bonds and corporate securities as domestic foreign exchange reserves. In this way, U.S. dollars return to the United States and support U.S. economy.
American historian Nial Ferguson called this phenomenon "the largest free lunch in modern economic history."
According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve, it only costs 6.2 cents to print a dollar bill, but it can gain the purchasing power of a dollar, and the cost of printing a $100 bill is only 14 cents.
In view of this, printing the US dollar is undoubtedly a big deal that is never lost.
This is exactly what the former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said in the 1970s-"Whoever controls food controls mankind; who controls energy controls the entire continent; who controls currency, Whoever controls the world."
Although the U.S. fiscal deficit and government debt continue to expand, due to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar, U.S. debt can still enjoy low interest rates, and the U.S. can obtain funds from all over the world at a very low cost.
"Markets Without Borders" published by McKinsey & Company in 1996 wrote: "All US debts are denominated in U.S. dollars. The U.S. dollar itself is the world's reserve currency. It can create inflation at any time and make the United States get rid of debt at any time."
Relying on the hegemony of the U.S. dollar, the United States has enjoyed the super privilege of almost unlimited money printing for many years.
According to its own economic cycle, the United States has repeatedly switched between "opening the gates and releasing water" and "closing the gates and shutting down the flow", looting foreign exchange reserves of various countries, plundering high-quality assets, and capturing huge profits during the process of large inflows and outflows of dollars.
After the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed issued three rounds of quantitative easing from the end of 2008 to October 2014, and passed the crisis to the world through the over-issue of the US dollar.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, in order to save the U.S. economy and stock market, the Fed has once again opened the "super water release" model, offering zero interest rates and unlimited quantitative easing.
After the Biden administration came to power, it quickly launched a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan. The "money printing machine" was running at full capacity, and a large amount of additional US dollars flowed to all parts of the world, causing the prices of commodities to rise sharply. Other countries, especially developing countries, The economy has suffered a double blow and is even more fragile.
But these do not seem to be of concern to the United States, as former US Treasury Secretary John Connery said: "The U.S. dollar is our currency, but it is your problem."
Chongyang Institute of Finance, Renmin University of China, Taihe Think Tank, and Haiguo Tuzhi Research Institute jointly released "America First?" on August 9 this year.
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The research report “The Truth about America’s Anti-epidemic” pointed out that the United States spent a year and a half printing nearly half of all US dollars in the past 200 years. "pressure.
In the case of the failure of the US government to prevent and control the epidemic, the Federal Reserve issued excessive currency to postpone the crisis by flooding.
If ranked by currency issuance, the United States is well-deserved "the country with the most promiscuous currency."
What's more noteworthy is that every time the Fed "crisis bailout", it is not ordinary Americans who profit, but the top 1% of the rich Americans. Almost all the wool cut in the world flows into their pockets.
Most of these 1% belong to some of the most powerful and well-funded interest groups, including Internet giants, Wall Street, the medical insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, the fossil fuel industry, and military-industrial complexes.
The U.S. financial industry and high-tech industries expanded rapidly during the epidemic, and large U.S. companies received huge amounts of funding through various economic stimulus plans.
At the same time, most of the over-issued U.S. dollars flowed into the U.S. stock market, and the rise in stock prices further increased the wealth of the wealthy in the United States.
According to statistics from the Forbes website in January this year, although tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs and income during the new crown epidemic, the total wealth of more than 650 billionaires in the United States has increased by 1.3 trillion US dollars in the past year. 38.6%, and the total wealth of the five richest Americans increased from 358 billion US dollars to 661 billion US dollars, an increase of 85%.
In the newly published book "The Truth in America," Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz told the truth: American economy and politics exist only for these 1% of people, and they are also affected by this 1%. Manipulated by people.
The crazy printing of money has given birth to the illusion of America's temporary prosperity, but behind it is the crisis.
At present, the Fed's balance sheet scale has exceeded 8 trillion U.S. dollars, and the scale of U.S. Treasury bonds is as high as 28.5 trillion U.S. dollars.
Fitch, an international rating agency, has already downgraded the outlook for the US sovereign credit rating to "negative" in July 2020, and stated that high debt and deficits are corroding the sovereign credit of the United States.
"Nihon Keizai Shimbun" published an article on May 31 this year and pointed out that "Biden Economics", which combines huge fiscal stimulus measures and bold monetary easing policies, is stirring the world.
"Whether it wants to or not, the world will be involved in this American experiment. If this gamble ends in failure, it is not the United States that will be hit hard, but the more vulnerable countries."
The US's practice of issuing currency to allow other countries to "pay the bill" for the US deficit will eventually threaten the dominance of the dollar.
In recent years, in order to get rid of the dollar hegemony, Russia, the European Union, and China have accelerated their efforts to de-dollarize.
In fact, "financial giant" Soros said frankly in 2018 that the U.S. dollar will lose its status as the world’s main reserve currency and transaction medium in the next few years. "People don’t like Washington’s power, so they are leaving and looking for Ways to get rid of the dollar".
Long-arm jurisdiction, U.S. bullying only covers the sky
"For more than ten years, under the guise of anti-corruption, the United States has successfully dismantled many large multinational corporations in Europe... The U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted the executives of these multinational corporations and even sent them to prison, forcing them to confess guilt, thereby forcing them to commit crimes. The company pays huge fines to the United States." Frederick Pierucci, a former executive of Alstom, France, broke through the hegemony of the United States in his book "American Trap" published in 2019.
Over the years, in order to maintain its dominance in the political, economic and other fields, the United States has frequently overridden domestic law over international law and international rules, abused long-arm jurisdiction, economic sanctions and other means to contain hostile and rival countries and foreign companies. Pushing the "Law of the Jungle" and hegemonism to the extreme has caused the world to suffer.
The United States not only tried its best to suppress the countries it identified as threatening the interests of the United States, but also regarded the entities it identified as threatening US commercial interests and technological or financial advantages, and it did not hesitate to use all means to suppress it.
Since the promulgation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977, and especially after the amendment of the law in 1998, the United States has used law enforcement as an excuse to extend its "black hands" overseas.
No matter when and where, as long as foreign companies have traded in U.S. dollars, signed contracts denominated in U.S. dollars, or sent and stored mail only through e-mail servers located in the United States, the U.S. government believes that it has jurisdiction over related cases.
French Senate member Philippe Bonacrell pointed out that the long-arm jurisdiction of the United States exists from Asia to Europe.
With the deepening of economic globalization and financial globalization, economic and financial sanctions have become a common tool for the United States to pursue hegemonic foreign policy.
In recent years, the United States has put more domestic laws above international law and international rules, and has become addicted to bullying and sanctions. Article 3 of the "Muss-Burton Act", stepping up the embargo against Cuba, etc.
The United States not only sanctions countries that it considers its enemies or adversaries, but also imposes "secondary sanctions" on third parties that have dealings with these countries, including its allies.
The United States continues to expand the extraterritorial scope of domestic law, disregarding the jurisdictional rules of international law, and forcibly placing foreign individuals and entities under its own jurisdiction.
According to these laws, the United States can obtain user data and transfer information of European banks through the SWIFT system.
Ali Raidi, a researcher at the French Institute of International Relations and Strategy, pointed out that in recent years, European companies have been repeatedly hit by the US Department of Justice and related financial regulatory agencies. , Iran and other countries that trade companies have been fined hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
These actions of the United States have caused serious economic difficulties in relevant countries, and even humanitarian crises, which are no less destructive than wars.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Venezuela, Syria, and Iran have been subject to long-term sanctions by the United States. The domestic economic and medical conditions have been severe, and the epidemic situation has been severe.
Instead of stopping sanctions, the United States has further increased the sanctions, making these countries even worse.
Former Iranian President Rouhani complained: “The US sanctions against Iran are inhumane, criminal and terrorist acts.” An article on the website of the Spanish "Insurrection" website cited the US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela as an example, pointing out that the United States is increasing. Relying on illegal economic sanctions to replace or be part of a war to hit the economy and society of the relevant country.
The article calls: "It is time to end the US economic war and abolish these unilateral coercive measures that violate international law."
国际社会愈发看清楚，美国标榜的市场竞争原则和国际经贸规则，只在对美有利时才会被美方遵守。美国政客口中谈的是公平竞争、自由贸易，心里信奉的是“美国优先”，手上挥舞的是“制裁大棒”。
特朗普执政时期，美国为破坏中国安全稳定进而遏制中国发展，在向世界贸易组织提交的文件中正式拒绝承认中国市场经济地位，并蓄意挑起对华贸易争端，对中国高科技企业施加一系列单边制裁措施。拜登政府上台后延续遏华政策，继续滥用国家力量，出台一系列法案和行政令，不择手段打压和限制华为等中国企业。截至今年4月，美国已将382家中国公司及机构列入“实体清单”，公布包括73家中国企业在内的“军事最终用户清单”，并颁布含有明显歧视中国企业条款的所谓“外国公司问责法案”。
利益面前，美国对待盟友也毫不手软。二战后，美国对经济迅速崛起的日本也无情打压，“广场协议”就是明证。近年来，美国认定连接俄罗斯与德国的“北溪－2”天然气管道项目对美国天然气行业造成影响并有损美国在欧亚地区的地缘政治利益，对该项目实施多轮制裁，令美德关系一度十分紧张。
动辄对别国威胁、制裁、讹诈，美国早已将自己置于公理和道义的对立面。正如阿里·拉伊迪在2019年出版的《隐秘战争》一书中所说，美国通过域外管辖的“合法化”，可以堂而皇之地对任何国家施压。无论对盟国还是敌国，“美国只手遮天”。
唯我独尊，美国是国际秩序“破坏王”
在强大实力支撑下，“美国例外论”成为其肆意践踏国际关系的“理论依据”。尤其自二战结束以来，美国一直视自己为“民主资本主义”生活方式和建立在“自由主义价值观”基础上的国际体系的主要捍卫者。美国时时要求别国遵守“基于规则的国际秩序”，自己却唯我独尊，将私利凌驾于以联合国为核心的国际体系之上，凌驾于以国际法为基础的国际秩序之上。
尽管美国主导建立了战后一整套关于世界政治经济的国际制度和规则，但美国对此的态度一直是合则用、不合则弃，动辄“退群毁约”。自20世纪80年代以来，美国拒绝批准或单方面退出《联合国海洋法公约》、联合国反对种族主义大会、《京都议定书》等多个国际组织或协议。特朗普政府“退群毁约”尤其严重，执政4年内退出了联合国人权理事会、伊朗核问题全面协议、《中导条约》等十余个国际组织或协议。美国还独家反对《禁止生物武器公约》核查议定书谈判，妨碍国际社会对各国生物活动进行核查的努力，成为生物军控进程的绊脚石。
英国牛津大学2003年出版的《美国霸权与国际组织》一书概括说：“美国的多边合作，主要取决于美国国内在多大程度上认为这些多边组织是促进美国目标有效达成的合适工具。”美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员罗伯特·卡根在2012年出版的《美国缔造的世界》一书中也指出：“美国人说他们希望国际体系保持稳定，但他们常常是稳定的最大阻碍。他们赞扬国际法和国际制度的优点，随后又毫不犹豫地违反和无视它们。”
美国一方面频频退出不合己意的“群”，另一方面严厉惩罚任何敢于挑战美国的“群”。2020年，特朗普政府宣布对参与调查美方在阿富汗战争中行为的国际刑事法院官员实施经济制裁和入境限制。此举比美国历史上拒绝承认和执行国际法院裁决结果或拒绝配合国际法院调查的行为又进了一步。这一事件再次表明，如果不能“公器私用”，美国宁可毁掉“公器”。
拜登政府上台后，虽然重返了一些国际组织或协议，但这也是为了服务其战略布局。对于《开放天空条约》等被认为有损美国利益的协议，拜登政府仍然延续“退群毁约”的做法。尽管反复高调宣称“美国回来了”，但拜登政府实质上并没有放弃“美国优先”，而是推进“有选择的多边主义”，这被欧洲媒体称为“美国优先2.0版”。
事实上，只要不符合美国的利益和意图，不管是对手还是盟友，美国都从不心慈手软。近几年，美国一直要求北约及亚洲盟国增加军费开支，并增加支付给美国驻军的“保护费”。就在拜登今年6月欧洲之行前夕，美国被曝光监听欧洲盟国政要。这是2013年“棱镜门”事件后又一起美国监听丑闻。这再度表明，美国长期在全球实施大规模网络监控和网络攻击，已经成为全球网络安全的最大威胁，是名副其实的“黑客帝国”。
新冠疫情则如一面照妖镜，让“美国优先”的丑态无处遁形。疫情暴发后，美国大搞单边主义，截留他国抗疫物资，禁止本国医疗物资出口，买断可能用于治疗新冠肺炎的药物产能……一系列自私行为令世界瞠目，对国际抗疫合作造成严重损害。而对于全球抗疫的重要希望——疫苗，美国极力奉行“疫苗民族主义”，自疫苗尚处于临床试验阶段就开始抢订、抢购，将一些不发达国家和地区推入“无苗可种”的绝望境地。
美国还在疫苗问题上夹带“政治私货”。例如，西班牙《世界报》网站文章评论说，美国政府同意向墨西哥“出借”疫苗，目的是换取墨西哥加强对其与危地马拉边境非法移民的控制。美国《外交政策》杂志网站刊文说：“拜登政府仍在以有损世界其他国家利益的方式追求美国利益。”
更令人担忧的是，美国在全球多地秘密建立生物实验室，开展生物军事化活动，德特里克堡基地与新冠病毒传播之间的疑云至今未解。美国政府不仅对自身诸多疑点闭口不谈，对本国干扰全球抗疫的行为选择性忽视，还变本加厉地借疫情污名化、将病毒标签化，在新冠病毒溯源问题上大搞政治操弄，企图绑架世界卫生组织，实施将矛头对准中国的所谓“第二阶段溯源计划”，引发国际人士的担忧与批评。
美国生态健康联盟中国和东南亚科学与政策顾问、流行病学家休姆·菲尔德认为，美方行为“只会激起怀疑与不信任，从根本上破坏抗击新冠病毒、战胜这场疫情所需要的全球共同努力”。
中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院研究员刁大明指出，在如今世界遭遇变异新冠病毒再度冲击的危急关头，病毒溯源的政治化极大损害了世卫组织的协调角色。美国试图胁迫世卫组织，使之沦为政治化的“霸权工具”，这将导致全球抗疫合作的失序与混乱，拖累的不仅仅是抗疫工作，更是全人类的共同命运。
强推价值观，美国意识形态小圈子分裂世界
美国白宫8月11日宣布，拜登将在今年12月9日至10日举行线上“民主峰会”，并在一年之后举办线下面对面的峰会。显然，美国想要把自己塑造成全球民主的领导者和主要捍卫者。但讽刺的是，丹麦“民主联盟基金会”此前公布的一份民调显示，在世界范围内，美国被视为民主的最大威胁。在53个国家和地区的5万多名受访者中，近一半人担心美国威胁到他们国家的民主，对美国在全球的影响持负面看法。
长期以来，美国以“山巅之城”“上帝选民”自居，把“民主、自由、人权”等美式价值观鼓吹为至高无上的所谓“普世价值”，用美国的是非标准衡量其他国家，并认为美国有责任将其价值观推行到全球各地。英裔美国思想家托马斯·潘恩早在1776年出版的小册子《常识》中就宣扬，美国“有能力重新开创世界”。二战期间，美国《时代》周刊创始人亨利·卢斯提出“美国世纪”的概念，称“美国的理想将传播到世界各地，把人们从野兽那个层次提升到赞美诗中所说的比天使略低的层次”。
然而，民主不是可口可乐，美国生产原浆，全世界一个味道。美国口中的“普世价值”，不过是按照美国标准、由美国说了算的“美式价值”，其本质是美国维护全球霸权的意识形态工具。
一方面，美国利用其文化和传媒领域的强势地位，在全球范围内特别是在广大发展中国家，强行推广美式民主和价值观，输出美式政治经济模式，大搞意识形态渗透。另一方面，美国打着所谓“普世价值”的幌子，妄图占据道德和国际舆论制高点，肆意打击被其视作威胁和对手的国家与实体，人为制造分裂和对抗。美国前总统国家安全事务助理布热津斯基就曾说过：“强化美国文化作为世界各国文化‘榜样’的地位，是美国维持霸权所必须实施的战略。”
美国政界人士一直高度重视意识形态操纵。1953年，时任美国中央情报局局长艾伦·杜勒斯在鼓吹对社会主义国家进行“和平演变”时说：“那些不相信精神的压力、宣传的压力能产生效果的人，就是太无知了。”2010年，以美国时任总统奥巴马向国会参众两院提交《国家战略传播构架》报告为标志，美国政府主导的国家宣传体系进入一个更加具有联动运作能力的阶段。英国《卫报》2014年曾披露美国国际开发署一个企图利用音乐来推翻古巴政权的秘密项目：美国招募大批古巴歌手和音乐家，假装开展文化活动，但真正目的是利用这些人煽动歌迷反对古巴共产党和古巴政府。这再度印证了杜勒斯曾说的：“只要把脑子弄乱，我们就能不知不觉改变人们的价值观念，并迫使他们相信一种经过偷换的价值观念。”
美国还把经济援助和政治制度挂钩，通过它主导的国际金融机构向非洲国家施压，逼迫这些国家采用西方政治模式。从20世纪80年代起，美国历任总统都把促进受援国“民主化”当做美国对外援助的首要目标。但这样的行为给受援国带来的往往是灾难。许多非洲国家因急剧的政治“民主化”和经济私有化诱发政治危机甚至大规模流血冲突，一些国家至今仍然政局动荡。赞比亚学者丹比萨·莫约批评说，美国及其西方盟友发展援助对解决非洲问题并非有益而是有害。
拜登政府上台后不断宣扬“回归多边主义”，但实际上却是以意识形态划界搞小圈子和集团政治，以意识形态站队、阵营之间选边来割裂世界，并美其名曰维护“基于规则的国际秩序”。“四边机制”“五眼联盟”“七国集团”等小圈子、小集团的规则本质上就是美国霸权规则，根本代表不了国际社会。例如，拜登政府纠集英国、加拿大等盟友多次在联合国人权理事会炒作新疆“强迫劳动”等所谓“中国人权问题”，然而这些国家自身不仅存在种族屠杀、文化灭绝等黑历史，而且直到今天仍存在严重的种族歧视问题。在联合国人权理事会第47届会议上，有90多个国家对中国表达支持，对反华小集团说“不”，反映了国际社会的正义呼声。
美国《外交》杂志网站刊文指出：“从新冠大流行到全球贸易规则，从气候变化到经济发展，美国正在积极阻挠世界上大多数民主国家的优先事项。在这个过程中，美国的外交政策以民主的名义加剧了全球的民主危机，使美国的权力失去了合法性。”
保加利亚政治学家伊万·克勒斯特夫今年5月在《纽约时报》网站发表文章说，世界上的“自由民主国家”已经失去了定义民主的垄断地位。正如皮尤研究中心最近一项研究表明的那样，绝大多数美国人对他们自己的政治制度深感失望，有些人甚至不相信他们仍然生活在一个民主国家，其他许多欧洲国家的人们也是如此。
美国哈佛大学教授、“修昔底德陷阱”概念提出者格雷厄姆·艾利森此前也在《外交》杂志上撰文指出：“单极世界已经过去，那种以为其他国家只会等着在美国主导的国际秩序中被分配位置的幻觉也应随之破灭。”(执笔记者：柳丝；参与记者：王文、杨柳、刘明霞、傅琰)