The international community must take action, Global Times editorial: Oppose the "New Cold War" in international trade | United States | Society
If we look at the recent developments of the United States in the three major fields of political diplomacy, international trade, and military, there will be unsettling findings. This week, the leaders of the United States, Japan, and South Korea will hold a summit specifically at Camp David, the presidential resort of the United States. This form of summit is the first in the history of the three countries, and its side towards China is no longer concealed; According to Japanese media reports, this week Japan and the United States will also agree to jointly develop anti missile interceptors to counter the hypersonic weapons being developed by China, Russia, and North Korea; The negative impact of Biden's recently signed "investment restrictions on China" administrative order is spreading and fermenting.
The above actions and policy measures of the United States are all imbued with a strong "new Cold War" color, and show strong continuity and a trend of continuous escalation and escalation. Whether it is a "new Cold War" thinking or action can be distinguished by the following four criteria: first, whether it is an adversarial zero sum game or a cooperative mutually beneficial win-win situation; 2、 Whether it is demarcated by ideology, or equal exchange, mutual learning, and peaceful coexistence among different civilizations; 3、 See if it is promoting factional confrontation or building a community with a shared future for mankind through openness and inclusiveness; 4、 See if it suppresses and suppresses countries it sees as competitors, or engages in benign competition within the scope of international rules and principles. By comparison, the answer is self-evident.
At a time when the drumbeats of the United States launching the "New Cold War" are becoming increasingly dense and the smell of gunpowder is becoming more and more pungent, President Biden and Washington officials have emphasized on various occasions that the United States "does not seek a new Cold War", "must reject new containment", "learn from the lessons of the Cold War, and reject the idea that its logic still applies". This creates a strange scene where there is not only a deviation, but even opposition, between the actions and statements of the United States, its self-evaluation, and the true impression of it from the outside world. This is not only a problem of hypocrisy or lack of self-awareness in the United States, but also a huge hidden danger.
There are at least two possibilities. The first type is that the United States knows that it is engaging in a "new Cold War" and is also aware that people around the world, including the American people, strongly oppose and worry about it. In other words, the United States realizes that this is a heinous act and will never admit it. They will label their actions with a new label to confuse the world. The second scenario is that the United States actually launched a "new Cold War", but it really does not believe that it is engaged in a "new Cold War", which will have more serious consequences than the first scenario. Because the United States not only does not reflect on turning around, but also gains stronger "moral drive" from self hypnosis. In order to wake up the United States from pretending to sleep or sleeping, the international community needs to strengthen its resistance and criticism of the "New Cold War" launched by the United States, and intensify its actions.
No matter what US diplomatic strategy decision-makers say verbally or think mentally, their bodies are honest. When faced with difficulties in international affairs, especially when faced with countries with small power gaps and vastly different political cultures from the United States, they habitually and unconsciously refer to the experience of the Cold War, sometimes directly applying Cold War methods, and never taking off the "Cold War glasses" to view the world and era that have already undergone tremendous changes. Even if they may know, this is wrong and dangerous.
An article in the American Foreign Affairs magazine pointed out that Cold War history has become a tight fitting garment that restricts Americans from seeing the world, including "it is difficult to understand the gray zone between friends and enemies", "making negotiations between the United States and its competitors seem incredibly risky", "it is difficult to imagine a less militarized foreign policy", and so on. The deeper the misunderstanding of history and reality, the stronger the Cold War mentality restricts and misleads American diplomatic strategic decision-makers. Binary oppositional thinking makes it impossible to understand the complexity and richness of a multipolar world, and there is also a severe lack of imagination for the future. The diplomatic strategy and route formulated based on this have distorted the reality of international politics.
More specifically, Washington misunderstood history, misjudged the times, and misunderstood the CPC and the Chinese people. The destructive power of the "New Cold War" will be world-class, and the fate of all humanity is standing at a crossroads. American political elites may argue that the United States is the winner of the Cold War, but it is certain that the United States cannot be the winner of the "New Cold War" and must bear historical responsibility for today's choices.
