Increasing global risks! European media: Sanctions have become a "universal tool" for the United States. Sanctioned countries and their people are deeply affected by them. Order | Countries | United States
According to foreign media reports, sanctions have become a foreign policy tool for Western governments led by the United States over the past two decades. According to data from the Brookings Institution, a Washington research institution, as of fiscal year 2021, the United States has implemented over 9400 sanctions.
Screenshot of a report on the European website Modern Diplomacy
The European website Modern Diplomacy reported on the 4th that the United States' enthusiasm for sanctions will lead to its decline. The database maintained by Columbia University shows that a total of six countries are subject to comprehensive sanctions by the United States, which means that US law prohibits most commercial and financial transactions with entities and individuals from these countries. Another 17 countries are subject to targeted sanctions, which prohibit the establishment of financial and business relationships with specific companies, individuals, and governments under US law.
According to relevant data, in 2021, the Biden administration added 765 new sanctions globally, of which 173 were related to human rights. Overall, countries that have been subject to some form of US sanctions account for over 20% of global GDP.
Screenshots of partial sanction lists on the official website of the US Treasury Department
The article mentions that more and more countries are seeking to rewrite the rules of the global financial system - largely in response to the ubiquitous US sanctions. More and more countries in the southern hemisphere that have not been sanctioned are joining a parallel anti sanction world economy. Reality shows that even US partners are hedging their bets in response to US sanctions policies.
The Modern Diplomacy website points out that it is now time to reconsider how these punitive measures by the US government erode the Western order they aim to maintain. The United States should now realize that its love for sanctions may weaken its economic and diplomatic strength globally.
According to the 2022 report of the China Association for Human Rights Research, the United States indiscriminately suppresses countries and organizations that do not comply with its own policies in the Middle East and other regions, enforces American style values, and ensures the global political, economic, and security order led by the United States. The essence of this is to maintain the "military economy concept trinity" hegemony of the United States. The consequence is to change the path of independent development of regional countries, seriously damaging the sovereignty of relevant countries in the Middle East and the development and health rights of local people.
Professor Daniel Drezner of Tufts University criticized the abuse of economic coercion by successive US governments in an article published in Foreign Affairs magazine. He said that sanctions have become a solution to almost all US foreign policy issues, not only ineffective, but also causing humanitarian losses. The unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on countries in the Middle East and other regions have ultimately harmed ordinary people and seriously undermined the development rights of sanctioned countries and their peoples.
According to China Daily on the 7th, in recent years, the United States has imposed tariffs, sanctions, and export controls on China. Jack Mitchell, head of global consulting firm Midgley&Co, stated in an interview, "Throughout all economic measures taken by the United States against China, their claimed purpose is to protect US national security. In fact, these measures are used to suppress China's economic development."
Mitchell said, "The appropriate goal of policy is to establish rules and laws so that both parties can invest and benefit from their own technology, but the United States did not do so and only used sanctions to combat it. I believe this policy will ultimately fail."
The weaponization of technology, biotechnology, and economic and trade issues by the United States is the destruction of the global order.
The article on the European website Modern Diplomacy emphasizes that US decision-makers are unlikely to seriously reconsider their enthusiasm for sanctions in the short term. Because compared to military threats, implementing sanctions is simple, inexpensive, and less dangerous. Sanctions have become a universal foreign policy tool for the United States to express opposition to actions that do not meet its standards.
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