What does "America is no longer trying to change China" mean?

2021-11-08

US National Security Advisor Sullivan said in an interview with CNN a few days ago that previous administrations tried to change China was a mistake, and the Biden administration will not pursue this goal. What exactly does this mean?

When a couple or one of the couples says "I don't want to change each other anymore", there may be two completely opposite meanings: one is to accept fate and compromise, as long as the two are still together; the other is to have Completely fed up, tired and completely gave up, determined to break up.

So for Sullivan's remarks, some people believe that the US government has finally conceded defeat and accepted the "rise" of mainland China.

Personally, I think the latter is more likely.

Although Sullivan denied in the interview that China was an adversary, nor did he think that the Sino-US relationship was similar to the US-Soviet relationship during the Cold War, all this was just a diplomatic rhetoric.

Because Sullivan also said in this interview that the Biden administration's way of dealing with mainland China is to first strengthen its own construction, and secondly build a broad alliance to shape an international environment that is conducive to the United States, promotes American values, and can effectively hold China accountable. rule.

Sullivan's remarks are actually an official end to the decades-long "engage-change" policy of the United States toward China.

Although this policy was shaken as early as the Bush era, the 9/11 incident changed everything - which is why many experts and scholars claim that the 9/11 incident has helped the mainland gain 20 more years of development time.

That is to say, the United States will adopt such a policy for a long time in the future: in addition to issues such as climate change, the United States will minimize its cooperation with China, reduce the importance of the Chinese mainland market, speed up the transfer of supply chains, and not Encourage and expand exchanges between the two sides in economic and cultural aspects.

And while the United States does it itself, it will ask the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and even ASEAN to do the same. By the way, how similar Vietnam's role today is to China's in the 1970s is Nael. In order to fight the Soviet Union, the Americans extended an olive branch to mainland China; just a few years ago, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam had developed to the point where American aircraft carriers could park in Vietnamese ports.

If the U.S. government implements these policies effectively and mainland China cooperates very well, we will face a situation of weak exports for a long time in the future.

If, unfortunately, the domestic demand is sluggish and the real estate industry is sluggish, the young people are bound to have nowhere to live. No matter how powerful EDG is, how many people can the entire game industry accommodate? If you just choose to lie down and hide in the virtual world, it will be considered very neutral and peaceful. I am afraid that a lot of energy and resentment will eventually have to find an outlet in the real world.

This is our outlook.

The dark tunnel is ahead, and I don’t know how many people will be able to see the end alive.