Former US Treasury Secretary warned: When competing with China, we should focus on improving ourselves instead of attacking our opponents.

According to the report, Summers told David Westin, the host of The Wall Street Journal on Bloomberg TV: "If we turn our attention from improving ourselves to destroying China, I think we will make a very dangerous and unfortunate choice." Instead, he said, the United States should focus on its own challenges, such as innovation, infrastructure, education and the opioid crisis.

Bloomberg mentioned that the Biden administration announced comprehensive new measures to restrict the sale of semiconductor technology to China last month, which marked a major shift in US policy and even made some American allies feel uneasy. The report also said that Summers also expressed concern about Washington's radical behavior on the issue of Taiwan Province Province, and believed that the United States must be very careful on this issue. If China feels that the United States is changing the traditional one-China policy, "it is likely to trigger a disastrous conflict." .

When talking about the progress of China and the United States during the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Summers expressed "great encouragement".

"I don't think we should tell China how they should organize their whole society," Summers added. The correct approach is to "defend some of our fundamental interests in security and fair economic competition".

In response to the US government's earlier request that Japan and other countries take measures to restrict the export of semiconductors to China, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao 165438+ responded at the press conference on1October 2: For some time, the US has repeatedly abused export control measures, maliciously blocked and suppressed China enterprises, and coerced its allies to participate in the economic containment of China, which has caused great damage to the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain. We will continue to work with the international community to oppose economic coercion and bullying by the United States and safeguard the stability of the world economic system, rules and foundation. We also hope that the countries concerned will make correct judgments independently from their own long-term interests and the fundamental interests of the international community.

Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China, said on June 165438+ 10/4 that it must be pointed out that China has its own long-standing principles and bottom line, and has legitimate interests that must be resolutely safeguarded, and will not succumb to any hegemonic bullying. The United States should put President Biden's positive attitude into concrete policies and actions, stop containing and suppressing China, stop interfering in China's internal affairs, stop harming China's sovereignty and security development interests, and go hand in hand with China to build a "four pillars and eight pillars" conducive to the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations, thus laying a "solid foundation" for the stable and far-reaching development of Sino-US relations.

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Media: The day after Biden indicated that he had no intention to contain China, a new round of American attacks began.

Just as US Vice President Harris flew to Bangkok to attend the APEC Leaders' Meeting, the international media focused on the absence of President Biden, an important international multilateral occasion, to attend his granddaughter's wedding.

Some American media are worried that this will send a "wrong signal" to the Asia-Pacific region and give China a chance to "win the Asia-Pacific region".

But this is not the wrong signal. Washington's attitude towards the Asia-Pacific region, especially Southeast Asia, has long been clear.

From Biden's absence from APEC to his previous slips of the tongue, lateness and promised discounts at ASEAN and G20 summits.

In particular, the negative trend of multi-sectoral involvement in China in the United States these days,

It reflects that the United States is only using the name of "Indo-Pacific strategy" to contain China.

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The absence of US President Biden from this APEC Leaders' Meeting "will be disappointing".

In a recent interview, Kasit, former foreign minister of Thailand, said that this would strengthen the view in Southeast Asia that the United States is "too busy, too far away and too indifferent" to effectively engage in economic or other contacts with Thailand and the wider region.

Even some American scholars realize that Biden is sending the wrong signal to the Asia-Pacific region by not going to Bangkok this time. "This makes people worry about the economic commitment of the United States to ASEAN."

But in fact, this is not necessarily a "wrong signal." After all, it is always essential to really make use of the false promises made by the United States to the Asia-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia.

As early as September this year, the Thai media revealed that US President Biden decided to miss the meeting because of the conflict between the APEC meeting schedule in Bangkok this year and his granddaughter's wedding.

I have attended a series of East Asian cooperation leaders' meetings and G20 summits, but later I missed APEC on the grounds of my granddaughter's wedding. No wonder even some American public opinion feels a little unreasonable, especially considering that the United States will take over the role of APEC host next year.

This action shows that although the United States has promoted Southeast Asia to the core of the "Indo-Pacific Strategy", this absence still shows that the United States has more "priorities" in its mind.

In the United States, Vice President Harris will attend APEC on behalf of Biden and tell Asia-Pacific countries and enterprises that "there is no better partner than the United States" at the meeting.

Fine words say so, but what is the truth?

Some analysts said that judging from Biden's choice to attend the ASEAN and G20 summits but absent from the APEC meeting, it is self-evident which international organizations are more important to the current United States.

As an economic cooperation organization, APEC is an international multilateral organization that emphasizes "Asia-Pacific" in terms of name and affairs, which is incompatible with the increasing attention paid by the United States to "Indo-Pacific". Some scholars say that in terms of strategic importance, APEC is not necessarily a place where the United States is willing to spend a lot of time and energy.

This sign has appeared since the Trump era. The meeting in 20 17 is the only meeting attended by Trump offline, and it will be an online meeting in 2020.

Some American media are worried that the absence of the President of the United States from APEC means that the United States will "hand over its influence in the Asia-Pacific region to China"?

Obviously, Harris's visit is to give himself a "reassurance".

Besides Harris, the United States also sent Secretary of State Blinken, Trade Representative Dai Qi and other senior officials to attend this meeting, with the aim of "promoting free, fair and open trade and investment".

A senior White House official claimed that Harris's work was based on President Biden's trip to Southeast Asia.

He said: "This shows that our participation in the region is deepening, and it also shows the efforts made by the President and Vice President to strengthen our alliance with the region and strengthen investment in key institutions in the region."

Harris's trip not only gave people "reassurance", but also "the smell of gunpowder". According to the White House press release, Harris will visit palawan island on1October 22nd 165438+, which will make Harris the highest-ranking American official to visit the island chain adjacent to Nansha Islands.

Looking back a little, Biden's visit not only failed to show that the United States attaches great importance to ASEAN countries as promised, but also exposed profound geopolitical selfishness.

On June 5438+02, Biden made a slip of the tongue at the US-ASEAN summit and called Cambodia Colombia.

13, the opening ceremony of the ASEAN summit, Biden arrived at the venue more than half an hour late, and was the only leader who was late after the meeting started.

On June 5438+05, Biden was more than half an hour late for the G20 summit. As the American delegation was late and other delegations were waiting in the conference hall, the whole meeting had to be postponed.

In his speech at the ASEAN Summit, Biden announced that the United States will provide 850 million U.S. dollars in aid to Southeast Asia in 2023. Embarrassed, the 850 million that Biden talked about at the summit was actually "discounted" in the subsequent White House records-changed to 825 million.

Being late, making a slip of the tongue, promising a discount, the slogan of "central position" shouted by Washington, but the actual action is "US priority" everywhere, and Southeast Asian countries must have seen it clearly.

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Before Vice President Harris went to Bangkok, the FBI and anti-China congressmen had released a wave of negative actions involving China.

On June 5438+05, the day after President Biden made an unintentional commitment to contain and oppose China in Bali, Christopher Babers, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, criticized China's so-called stealing network data from the United States at a hearing of the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives.

This "Thunder Bureau" claimed that China's short video application "Tik Tok" caused "national security concerns", slandered the China government "may use it to control the data collection of millions of users", or affected the operation through "control recommendation algorithm".

Christopher Babers has repeatedly attacked China and discredited China, but even the American media have noticed a detail:

At a public meeting, he refused to answer a question about whether the China government used Tik Tok to collect data on American citizens.

Why did you refuse to answer? A reasonable guess is that he has no evidence at all.

On the day when the "Thunder Bureau" staged an anti-China performance, the US-China Economic and Security Review Committee, a bipartisan organization of the US Congress, also jumped out.

It released its annual report in June, 5438+05, suggesting that Congress should instruct Biden's government to evaluate whether China abides by the WTO accession agreement reached with the United States in June, 5438+0999. If Beijing fails to honor its promise, "Congress should legislate to cancel China's normal trading partner treatment".

The Committee also hopes to give the Biden administration only 90 days to complete the relevant evaluation investigation.

As soon as President Biden promised that the United States had no intention of seeking decoupling from China, this cross-party congressional body, which is said to be hawkish about China, threw out this fault-finding report and put forward suggestions that obviously instigated and even forced the government to seek decoupling from China:

At the press conference, the chairman of the Committee pointed out that if it comes true, "this will lead to a substantial increase in tariffs on imported products in China".

As for the report's suggestion that the United States set up an inter-departmental office to strengthen the supply chain of key products, so as to get rid of its dependence on China, it is more obvious to encourage decoupling.

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These anti-China clamors did not stop at 15, but people echoed at 16.

Another special committee of the U.S. Congress, the "Congress-Administration China Committee" led by members of the two parties in Congress and the House of Representatives, released the so-called annual report on the status quo of human rights and the rule of law in China in 2022.

If nothing else, just look at the two chairmen of the Committee, Senator Jeff Merkley and Congressman James McGovern, who are anti-China politicians with different words and deeds, and look at the theme of "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China", and you can basically predict the keynote of the report.

These anti-China factions took the lead in concocting reports, and also dug up some old and boring rumors and smears about China, such as "Xinjiang Massacre" and "Hong Kong undermined democracy and freedom".

It can be seen that they really can't make up any new black material, so they have the cheek to fry cold rice.

An international scholar analyzed that it is not surprising that these negative voices against China keep coming and going in the United States.

After all, there has always been a big gap between the actual actions of the United States and President Biden's commitment to China or other American statements. The US Congress has always been a place where anti-China factions act as demons, while the FBI has been clamoring for "China spy threat" in recent years.

However, after all, Biden made a series of relatively positive statements to China the day before, and even before he set foot on his trip back to Washington, these anti-China arguments popped up in the United States for two consecutive days, which made people question his sincerity in implementing the promise made by the head of state.

This scholar believes that this is partly because the domestic political struggle in the United States has spillover effects. After the mid-term elections, * * * and the party controlled the House of Representatives, and they definitely wanted to show their influence, so they deliberately found fault with and opposed the Democratic government.

On the other hand, both parties in the United States have strong strategic anxiety about China. Although Bali has released some positive signals this time, it is impossible to change the impulse of the United States to suppress and contain China, and anti-China factions in the United States will not be discouraged.

U.S. President Biden's trip to Southeast Asia and his failure to attend the APEC meeting revealed that Washington is nominally strengthening economic and trade participation and fulfilling its lasting commitment to the Asia-Pacific region. In fact, it is mainly trying to extract the geopolitical value of the region to increase the essence of suppressing China.

This is consistent with the recent uproar in the United States and the confrontation in China.

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