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Due to the sensitivity of the Taiwan issue in Sino-US relations, when Sino-US relations are good, the United States will be more restrained and even suppress Taiwan’s internal Taiwan independence forces and prevent them from becoming "troublemakers." However, Sino-US relations are not good, so various political forces within the United States will play the "Taiwan card" and create "trouble" in cross-strait relations.

The purpose of the United States playing the Taiwan card is actually very simple. First, to advertise to the world that the United States supports so-called freedom and democracy; second, to strategically contain China; third, to seize the opportunity to sell weapons to Taiwan and collect protection fees .

After the Trump administration came to power, it listed China as the number one strategic competitor of the United States, so the "Taiwan card" must be played. Weapons were also sold more often. Trump is very happy to bring profits to the American arms dealers. 


However, if you look closely, the United States offers nothing other than beautiful words to Taiwan, and by the way, it has not made any substantial "concessions" to Taiwan whether it is from a political, diplomatic, or economic point of view.

The reason why Taiwan stays close to the American is also well understood. It is like whistling at night in order to make yourself less afraid. 

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Many people have judged that due to the current Trump election weakness, from now until the US election on November 3, Trump is likely to continue to create conflicts between China and the United States to boost his chances in the election, and Sino-US relations have thus entered the most dangerous phase. Another reason why Sino-U.S. relations have entered a dangerous period is that some people in the Trump administration are systematically planning a confrontation with China, hoping to launch a "new cold war" in the 21st century for the sake of safeguarding the hegemony of the United States itself, and seek the “decoupling” of China and the United States as far as possible.


On the issue of Sino-US relations, China's attitude has always been clear. For  China and the United States "cooperation will benefit both, and confrontation will hurt both." From trade wars to technology wars, from diplomatic wars to public opinion wars, every war was initiated by the United States, and China has not proactively challenged issues in Sino-US relations. For the clear-headed people in China, if China wants to continue to develop, it still needs to handle relations with the United States carefully. It is not in China's fundamental interests to seek a full confrontation with the United States. few people suggest that China and the United States should fight a "new cold war," and no one naively thinks that it does not matter if China and the United States are "decoupling." The fact is that China has always wanted to ease the tension between China and the United States, return the two sides to the track of negotiations and consultations, and do everything possible to prevent Sino-US relations from getting out of control.



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Anti China Coalition?

In previous episodes, I talked about how the USA gets its national priorities wrong, and Europe and Britain’s national priorities do not include containing China. So, who else can the USA recruit to join its infamous “anti-China coalition? Let’s go through the list.

Apart from the EU and the United Kingdom, Russia has a very special relationship with China. Can the United States lure Russia to contain China? Let's analyze from the perspective of national priority .

What is Russia's first priority? I think it is still the development of the economy. If the economy no longer grows, it will be difficult to maintain its existing political, diplomatic, and military influence, let alone expansion. The question is, can the US help Russia's economic recovery? The fact is that the United States and Russia have a competitive relationship at the economic level, such as energy, military and agricultural exports. Both the United States and Russia are direct competitors. How can the United States help Russia complete the task of economic development?. So across the world, only Europe and China can help Russia’s economic recovery. However, the EU’s political rejection of Russia and the United States’ opposition to Russia-Europe energy cooperation will make it difficult to have more economic cooperation with the European Union.

In the end, everyone will ask this question, since China has been strong for thousands of years, but has it ever expanded to conquer the Philippines or Malaysia that are so close to China? On the contrary, Indonesia, Australia and many others all became Western colonies instead of being occupied by the more powerful China. Therefore, now that the United States has stepped up the rhetoric of the China threat theory in Southeast Asia, it is actually talking to itself, because the United States views Southeast Asia in terms of the history of the European continent. What puzzles the United States is, why can South East Asian countries tolerate and accept a continuously rising China? In fact, what the United States does not know is that in the thousands of years without the United States, people have accepted a China that is dozens of times stronger than themselves, and have lived in peace for thousands of years. Now the US keeps saying that China is a "threat", people begin to doubt its sincerity and true motive.


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If I simply say that American allies will not follow the United States in containing China, many of you will of course not agree. So let me make another simple analysis based on the logic of each country’s primary and secondary tasks. 

Let me talk about the EU first. Do you know what the EU’s first priority is? The EU’s first priority is unity, the second priority is to free itself from US control, the third priority is to prevent Russia from moving westward, and the fourth priority is energy security. As for responding to the rise of China, I am afraid that it will not be ranked in the top five, and it is precisely because of the rise of China that has provided the EU a chance to get rid of the United States.

What I want to say is that the European Union, which is dominated by Germany and France, may take some political actions against China in order to conform to the United States. This is a bargaining chip, but Germany and France’s first and even fifth priority is not a response to China’s rise. Therefore, pulling the EU to contain China is a false proposition.

Dealing with the rise of China is not even in the top ten tasks of the UK. Otherwise, what about the UK’s income from international students? Who will maintain the housing prices in the UK? Can the London financial center rely on the future RMB business to compete with New York?

The United States wants the United Kingdom to contain China, but the real intention of the United Kingdom is to stop a unified European continent. Their purpose and goals are completely different.

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I intend to use another angle to study the problems of the American economy, because this is related to many future political and diplomatic issues in the United States, and in turn will have a greater impact on China and the world. Plagues and wars have always been events that change the course of history.

The US GDP in the second quarter fell by 32.9%. Although better than the forecast of some financial institutions, it is still shocking because this is the worst data for the US economy since 1947. In other words, it is difficult for many people to experience such a thing in their lifetime. The current unemployment rate in the United States is 14%, while before the outbreak, the unemployment rate was only 3%. The death toll in the United States due to the epidemic has exceeded 150,000. Former US presidential candidate Herman Kane also died of the virus, so don't think that the virus only kills people at the bottom.

If you know that the 32.9% economic contraction was already boosted by the huge financial relief of the government, you should understand how much impact the epidemic has on the United States. On March 25 this year, the White House and the Senate reached an agreement on a $2 trillion economic stimulus plan. Unemployed Americans are entitled to receive emergency unemployment benefits of $600 a week but does that allow the American people to survive the crisis?

According to data from the US Census Bureau in late July, nearly 30 million Americans did not have enough food to eat. The survey data shows that about 23.9 million of 249 million respondents indicated they had “sometimes not enough to eat” for the week ending July 21 and 5.42 million more indicated they had “often not enough to eat.” In total, about 12 percent of respondents reported not having enough food. Please note that this is the survey data released by the United States, not some fake media news.

This is why the United States will restart the economy even if the epidemic resures, because if work does not resume, the United States will really suffer a famine.

Many people may say that the United States is much richer than most of the world, it is impossible for them to go hungry. In fact, the abundance of goods really has nothing to do with whether you are hungry or not. If the economy cannot function normally, even if there is food, it will be difficult to distribute it to the people who need it. Industrial society is heavily dependent on division of labor and transactions. In the United States, the number of people who directly produce food and raw materials accounts for less than 2% of the total population. If the economy cannot restart, the entire production, transportation, and distribution links will be severely restricted. It is impossible to rely on the government's own system to distribute food.

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Let's discuss the question mentioned in the title: whether Trump and Biden is a better US president for China?

China's perception of the influence of American domestic politics on China's national interests is constantly advancing with the times. When the political stances of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party of the United States are very clear, we generally believe that in relations with China, the Democratic Party pays more attention to topics in ideological fields such as democracy and human rights, while the Republican Party pays more attention to free trade. Relatively speaking, China prefers to deal with the Republican Party. But this concept was completely broken with the elections of Trump, the atypical Republican candidate.

In fact, Trump is not the Republican president in the traditional sense at all. He just entered the White House under the cloak of the Republican Party but the core of his basic political proposition is "extreme right-wing radical populist." Biden, who has been immersed in Washington's politics for decades, is more like a traditional Democratic politician.

In the past few decades, China’s perception of American politicians initially used the distinct differences of positions of the two parties to judge whoever is to China’s advantage, but later discovered that the both Democratic and Republican parties may have differences, but the starting point of any policy they adopt is to safeguard the national interests of the United States. After realizing this, China was able to take the party rotation in the United States more calmly.

Among Trump and Biden, the current mainstream view is that no matter who is elected, it is not a key factor for China. The most important thing for China is still to do its own thing in a steady manner. But this view can go to an extreme. It believes that Trump and Biden are essentially the same in dealing with China, and there is absolutely no need for China to pay attention to who is up and who is down. I think this view is wrong.

Party rotation is not the main factor affecting China’s development, but it does not mean that we do not need to deeply analyze the specific personality differences and policy preferences of the two parties’ presidential candidates, nor does it mean that China does not need to do anything. At this moment, we must not only see the "consistency" between Trump and Biden on the China issue, but also the huge differences in their specific China policies due to their personal characteristics and political ideas.

From a rational point of view, if Biden is elected, it is most likely to realize China's position of preventing crises, managing differences and strengthening cooperation. He must negotiate with China to discuss crisis prevention, manage differences, and how to strengthen cooperation with China in areas that are in the United States' national interests. This is precisely the situation that China most hopes to see.

Anyway, because of the painful lessons of 2016, no one now dares to predict whether Trump will be re-elected or Biden will come to power.

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You may be surprised that there are few elites in China who like Tik Tok or its Chinese version Douyin. Everyone agrees that Douyin’s short video content consumes a lot of user time and has little educational benefits. Its use of recommendation algorithms makes the content addictive.The slogan of “resisting Douyin and saving China” was once very popular.

Unexpectedly, Trump actually came out to boycott Tik Tok, and wanted to completely block the existence of Tik Tok in the United States. However, the reason for the ban is not that it thinks American teenagers playing Tik Tok is not conducive to learning and growth, but that it threatens the national security of the United States. Anyone who watches those mindless and silly videos would agree that they have nothing to do with national security of the United States!

When Douyin was expanding overseas markets, in order to meet compliance requirements, it specially registered an overseas company and even changed its name to TikTok. Other than software core is the same, from the name to the main body of the company, TikTok is different from Douyin. It has been cut from the domestic company and implemented two different operating rules. Tik Tok has fully satisfied all the requirements put forward by the United States. TikTok complies with US laws and sets up its servers in the United States. All data stays in the United States only. The content reviewers are Americans. The middle and high-level managers are also Americans. Even the president is American. Except for the parent company, TikTok is an American company. In order to relieve the US government’s concerns, TikTok even announced that it will hand over its algorithm recommendation model to Americans for review.

In order to reflect its "inclusiveness and openness," the US government initially allowed the Chinese company TikTok to exist, at least for a while. Then, TikTok exploded in popularity, and reached the top of the global download list in January 2020, and continued its crazy speed.

In order to defeat TikTok, Facebook copied TikTok's model and launched short video softwares such as Lasso and Reels, but all failed. TikTok's users continue to grow wildly. The low-intellectual and entertaining short video content best satisfies the demand in the United States.

I am sure many of you have heard and are convinced of the following statements: The United States is a market economy, and the government will never intervene in the affairs of enterprises. It is regulated by the invisible hand of the market, which prevents government officials from seeking power. The United States is a country under the rule of law, and private property is sacred and inviolable. The United States is a democratic country. Everything depends on the operation of the system and does not rely on the rule of man at all. Even if a dog becomes president, the United States will not deviate from the right track.

Now that Trump forcibly banned TikTok and dispelled all of the above rumors in one go. Lies can deceive some for a while, but they cannot deceive forever.

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The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently delivered a long speech at the Nixon Presidential Library. The topic is "Communist China and the Free World’s Future". This speech is also called the "Iron Curtain Speech" of the 21st century because of many It is believed that like the "Iron Curtain Speech" delivered by the former British Prime Minister on March 5, 1946, which opened the curtain of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II, Pompeo's speech will also open the "new cold war" of China and the United States in the 21st century. 

I suggest that everyone who is concerned about Sino-US relations read it, because only after reading the full text will you know how deep the prejudice and misunderstanding of some people in this US administration are towards China and how strong their hostility towards China is. After reading it, whether you are on the left or on the right, can you truly "give up your illusions on the Sino-US relationship.

Pompeo declared that the previous US government policy of engaging China did not meet the original target of induce change in China. China did not follow its design, taking the western liberal democracy path of. This is actually the common "logic" of the US's China policy in the past few years. The core view is that the US has helped China integrate into the international system, but China has not followed the Western path as the US expected.

For many people in China, this is totally incomprehensible: how come a country with a history just 200 years is so arrogant to think they can set the development path and direction for an ancient civilized country with five thousands years of civilization ?

After reading the words of American officials such as Pompeo, China's strategy in the near future should still be "abandon illusions, persist in struggle, hold the bottom line, and watch for changes." Regardless of the trade war or geopolitical competition between China and the United States, China does not want to cause trouble, but if the United States really wants to cause trouble, China will fight to the end.

For China, the most important thing is to strengthen confidence and maintain unity and rationality internally.

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