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Since last year, the United States has launched a "301 investigation", frequently waving a big stick to increase tariffs, and continuously escalating trade frictions. Recently, it has ignored the hard-won achievements of the negotiating teams of the two sides for several months, and suddenly threw out a tariff list of 200 billion or even 300 billion US dollars again, which has seriously frustrated the economic and trade relations between the two countries. It has also allowed the US government to whitewash its hegemony with "civilization" and block exchanges with paranoia to curb the development of other countries to reflect its true face of progress.
But the U.S. government may not have thought:
The more deliberately making things difficult, the more China’s economy refuses to bow;
The more extreme pressure, the more China people will gather together;
The more he becomes angry from embarrassment and tries to confuse us, the more Chinese insists that Castle Peak will not relax and try to do his own thing.
Borrow a comment from a netizen: "It’s 2019, not 1919."
Hard-core broadcast of News Network, No Challenge Can Stop China’s Progress, and other heroic articles are repeated, "Talk, yes! Fight, accompany! Bullying, delusion! " While the morale is greatly boosted, we should also pay attention to keeping a clear head, and treat the American government and people differently from each other realistically.
First, the trapped American people are also victims.
The US government insists on provoking a trade war and insists that "tariffs bring considerable wealth to the United States" and "make the United States stronger", but where does this "wealth" come from?
Wool comes from sheep, and it is American farmers, enterprises, workers and ordinary consumers who pay the bill.
Look at the comments on Twitter and listen to these helpless complaints:
"Increasing tariffs will hurt Wall Street, Madison Avenue and the business of ordinary people."
"I am an American who owns a small business. For my business, some key commodities must be made in China and can never be produced in the United States. China didn’t pay anything, I paid those duties! You have imposed huge taxes on American businesses! You are killing free trade! "
"People with money and power never want to listen to the voices of small business owners!"
In recent days, u.s.-china business council, American Information Technology Industry Association, Consumer Technology Association, Clothing, Footwear and Socks Industry Association and many other industry associations have issued statements in succession, opposing the imposition of tariffs by the United States and Canada and urging the US-China economic and trade negotiations to return to the normal track as soon as possible.
But the US government’s response to this is selective blindness — — Of course, they didn’t forget to promise to buy more soybeans from American farmers with the tariff money from American people’s wallets, and use the remaining money for construction and charity.
Second, the China market is still a hot spot for American companies.
"The door to China’s opening will only get wider and wider".
With the continuous improvement of China’s infrastructure, the continuous optimization of the business environment and the promulgation of the Foreign Investment Law, more foreign investors hope to get more opportunities to participate in the China market, a large part of which comes from the United States. While taking the China economic development express to realize their own profits, they also made a lot of contributions to China’s economy.
In January this year, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in China, which attended the "2019 National Conference for Foreign Businessmen", the total investment of American enterprises in China was about 300 billion US dollars. Under the Sino-US trade dispute, three quarters of American enterprises were negatively affected by high tariffs. In fact, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai revealed in October last year that only 3% of Chinese and American enterprises were considering leaving China after the United States formally imposed a tariff of $200 billion on China.
On April 17th, the American Chamber of Commerce in China released the annual white paper "American Enterprises in China in 2019", which showed that:
98% of American companies surveyed said that they would continue to explore the China market, and believed that there were important opportunities in the growing China market.
Nearly 42% of American companies surveyed said that China was the top three investment destination, an increase of 5 percentage points over 2017. Among them, one fifth of enterprises listed China as the most important investment location.
38% of American companies surveyed said that the investment environment in China is improving.
The attitude of American enterprises engaged in technology and R&D-intensive industries to invest in China has changed the most: in 2017, only 51% of enterprises in related industries listed China as the top three investment destinations, while in 2018, the number jumped to 63%.
Just like the theme of the white paper conference, Bridging The Gap (bridging the communication "deficit"), for American enterprises, the increasingly open China market welcomes them, and they cannot do without the broad prospects brought by China. Communication, not confrontation, is the key to solving the problem. Under the banner of "Revitalizing Made in America", the US government always encourages all American enterprises to move back. These "dry goods" are often brushed aside or even mentioned.
If it’s really for domestic enterprises, why make such a bad decision?
Third, non-governmental exchanges are the source of strength for Sino-US relations.
According to public reports, in the "China-US Tourism Year" in 2016, an average of 14,000 people traveled between China and the United States every day, taking off and landing every 17 minutes, 5,000 China tourists visited the United States, and 1,000 American tourists visited the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and played flash … … These are all activities of the year.
Frequent people-to-people exchanges can obviously be the propeller of the relationship between the two countries, but the government’s deliberate obstacles can certainly reverse the results:
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in April 2017, from 2016 to 2017, Americans’ goodwill towards China improved by 7%; In 2018, when the US government deliberately provoked a trade war, this figure dropped by 6% in the same period.
Type "China" in the American version of "Zhihu" Quora, and you will be amazed at the popularity of this theme.
Why do so many people care about China and Chinese?
Why do people still ask, "Is there electricity in China? When did China have electricity? " Such a ridiculous question?
On the one hand, there are more and more people interested in China all over the world (including Americans, of course), on the other hand, "China" is still too isolated in the minds of many people who have never experienced it.
Prejudice often comes from ignorance.
As Fei Zhengqing, an American historian, wrote in his book America and China, "Our relationship with China needs more and more understanding in this respect, not less understanding … … This is the only way for us to face the primary interests of mankind together. "
If some people in the US government, starting from the Cold War mentality, want to artificially restrict the cultural exchanges between Chinese and American people, we must do the opposite, open our arms and welcome young Americans to study in China, American scholars to visit and investigate here, and American people to take a walk and have a look in China (using China’s electricity).
China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations in 1979, and "ping pong diplomacy" can be said to be a unique stroke. After 40 years of ups and downs, all-round exchanges between China and the United States have expanded rapidly and taken root in various fields. An American government and a handful of American politicians want to pull back the wheel of history, but in the end it can only be proved in vain.
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The history of China, up and down five thousand years — —
It is precisely because of the convergence of every trickle that the calm sea can be achieved;
It is precisely because of the broad mind of all rivers that we are not afraid of waves, clouds, deep currents and undercurrents;
It is precisely because of the world outlook of "harmony but difference" that we can have the aesthetic ability of "beauty and beauty together"
If this is just a farce that we want to perform unilaterally, we will let those who want to perform toss and turn.
If this is still a well-prepared long-term battle, we should unite all forces that can be United and distinguish between friends and enemies.
(The original title is "Tariffs make America stronger!" American people: "He lied!" 》）
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