Quick review | The most important thing to follow the "rules" is actually that the United States invests itself | Rules | The United States
On August 16th, local time, US President Biden signed an executive order to restrict investment in China on national security grounds. On August 14th, the Chinese Ministry of National Security's public platform issued an article pointing out the essence of the United States' "national security" - "selfishness, hegemony, and hypocrisy.".
The United States constantly demands that other countries abide by a rule-based international order, but it is recklessly breaking the rules itself.
The administrative order to restrict investment in China is another malicious act by the United States under the guise of national security, politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing economic, trade, and technological issues. Similar to the investigation conducted by the United States under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act and the imposition of tariffs under Section 232 of March 2018, it is a universally recognized and infamous unilateral measure that violates the basic spirit of the multilateral trading system, sets a bad precedent for arbitrary intervention in trade and investment activities, and seriously undermines the truly rule-based international order in the global governance system, which was established by members of the World Trade Organization through consensus in formulating and implementing rules.
The United States is a rule breaker.
In the fields of politics and security, the United States openly violates the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and the basic norms of international relations. Since the end of World War II, it has continuously launched wars or instigated the "color revolution", attempting to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments and violently interfering in the democratic elections of at least 30 countries; Being involved in a war every 15 years on average, creating separatist conflicts, taking advantage of the opportunity to sell weapons, reap the dividends of war, and bring tremendous turmoil and disasters to the world; Since 2001, wars and military actions launched by the United States in the name of counter-terrorism have caused over 900000 deaths, of which approximately 335000 are civilians, millions are injured, and tens of millions are displaced.
The United States has always prioritized domestic law over international law, adopting a cooperative and abandoning attitude towards international rules. It has withdrawn from 17 international organizations or agreements, including the United Nations Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Iranian Nuclear Issue. He once concocted a narrative of "democratic confrontation against authoritarianism", recruited other countries to form "small circles", strengthened the "Five Eyes Alliance", sold the "Four Sided Mechanism", pieced together the US UK Australia trilateral security partnership, tightened bilateral military alliances, implemented coercive diplomacy against other countries, and carried out indiscriminate retaliation.
The so-called "rules" in the mouth of the United States are actually its absolute hegemonic rules; The so-called "order" is its hegemonic order that prioritizes the United States. In the words of Italian international expert Giancarlo Elia Vallori, "In fact, it is another version of power politics."
At present, there is only one system in the world, which is the international system with the United Nations at its core; There is only one set of rules, which is the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.
In the world trend of continuous decline of hegemony and accelerated formation of a multipolar pattern. It's time for the United States to learn to "follow the rules"!