"Derisk" becomes a new vest for decoupling China | Risk | Vest
Recently, "de risk" has replaced "decoupling" and become a frequently hyped new buzzword in Western politicians' policies towards China. For example, after attending the ministerial meeting of the "US EU Trade and Technology Council", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that the US and Europe did not seek confrontation, cold war or decoupling with China, but focused on eliminating risks. However, the so-called risk reduction is just a new disguise put on by the US's decoupling and chain breaking actions, which cannot conceal the US's essential intention to contain and isolate China.
The main reason why the US is deliberately playing tricks with rhetoric is that some politicians in Washington have found it increasingly difficult to continue directly advocating for decoupling and breaking ties with China. In the past few years, the United States has been actively promoting decoupling from China in many fields, frequently using intense confrontational language to create a "new Cold War" and coercing the international community, with the intention of tying more countries to a "tank". However, as the actions of the United States become more radical, the international community's opposition has also become more resolute. More and more countries are coming forward to oppose the United States' suppression of China and the disruption of economic globalization, and some traditional allies of the United States are also occasionally making different voices.
The behavior of American politicians advocating for decoupling and breaking ties has also been criticized domestically, especially in the growing criticism of their policies towards China in the US business community. Since the beginning of this year, a group of American corporate executives with enormous global influence have visited China, expressing a clear attitude of optimism towards the Chinese market, making the international community more aware of how unpopular the US government's "decoupling and chain breaking" actions are.
In this context, the US has changed the face of "decoupling and chain breaking", replaced it with new vests and packaging, and started to hype up the concept of "risk reduction". On the one hand, it attempts to break free from the dilemma of wording, seek the initiative in discourse, and reduce the pressure brought by criticism from all parties; On the other hand, adding a "risk" hat to China's head and constantly hyping it up to deceive the international community and further promote decoupling and disconnection from China.
This act of changing vests is just a self deception of deceiving oneself. The German magazine Der Spiegel stated that "risk reduction" is a beautiful slogan because it means further clarifying what "risks" from China are and how to respond. The American media is also very straightforward. A recent article in Foreign Affairs magazine pointed out that the United States' push for the concept of "risk reduction" is actually restricting China's development in important areas such as chips and key raw materials, while also limiting the influence of the Chinese market on a global scale.
No matter how much Washington politicians try to use their words and phrases, they will ultimately be unable to resist market rules, cut off industrial connections, block exchanges, and cannot conceal their essence of moving against the trend of the times, suppressing and containing China. As a major country that holds significant importance in the world, China is firmly committed to expanding its opening up to the outside world, promoting win-win cooperation in the international community, and respecting the path of independent development of all countries. However, the United States recklessly promotes unilateralism and protectionism, repeatedly advocating for factional confrontation and zero sum games, and coercing other countries to take sides. It is clear at a glance who is the opportunity and who is the risk.
