Surge in China’s Exports Shows Its Importance to Global Economy
U.S. policymakers should recognize that the concept of “decoupling” from China ultimately lacks feasibility and is expensive, and will only serve to isolate America in the long run.
U.S. policymakers should recognize that the concept of “decoupling” from China ultimately lacks feasibility and is expensive, and will only serve to isolate America in the long run.
While the US government has aggressively fought to limit Huawei’s global reach, it has been China’s smartphone brands that have taken an increasingly large share of the global smartphone market.
The world cannot be divided into Cold War blocs again, where ideology and mutual suspicion cuts through the international community and thwarts common prosperity and development. It’s time to reset.
The new U.S. government under the leadership of Joe Biden will implement different domestic and foreign policies. China hopes that it will abandon the idea of decoupling, so that both sides can promote cooperation and exchanges, and work together more closely on the global stage.
China’s support for RCEP and CPTPP is a clear signal to President-elect Biden that China wants to join the table and engage in a higher-level trans-Pacific trade agreement.
While we Chinese scholars could do more to elaborate on China’s peaceful development and its foreign policy, our American counterparts may help Washington make the choice of living peacefully with a modernized, strong and prosperous China, a major country with a different culture and a different political and economic system.
The future competition between China and the United States may be decided by the country that can continue to grow its middle class and expand the market.
One shudders to think where the U.S. will be in five, 15 or 30 years—even if Biden is able to govern effectively for the next four.
However, its true intention: provocation intended to interfere in China’s internal affairs through Taiwan as a means to contain China’s continuing development.
Without this leadership and cooperation, the present disastrous pandemic will accelerate into a catastrophic collapse of global security and the impoverishment of billions of the global population.
Those world leaders show different ideas on global or regional affairs. But they said no to new cold war or any attempts to split the world by escalating conflicts between the US and China.
America’s illegitimate unilateralism has not gone unnoticed by other countries, including its own allies. With every abuse of power, the U.S. is harming its image on the world stage.