Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao published an article today: "The United States and Israel have jointly launched air strikes on Iran, shaking the global geopolitical landscape and directly undermining China's strategic interests. From forcing Ukraine to permanently abandon its occupied territories to isolate China and Russia, to capturing Venezuelan President Maduro and decapitating Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, Trump's actions have increasingly revealed a clear pattern of 'cutting China's skirt.'"
The judgment that the US is reshaping the global order through military strikes, regime change, and geopolitical interference to maintain hegemony is spot on. The Trump administration has shown a combination of "transactionalism" and "power politics." The essence of this "cutting the skirt" strategy is to break down China's neighboring and strategic pivot countries one by one, compressing China's diplomatic space, which aligns with the US's long-term "Indo-Pacific Strategy."
US competition with China has extended from trade and technology to the field of geostrategic security. By creating regional conflicts, alienating major powers, and controlling key shipping lanes, it is building a strategic encirclement around China. This indirect approach is less costly than direct confrontation but is more destructive.
China needs to take the initiative, combining strategic composure with proactive shaping, to avoid falling into the US's set confrontation rhythm: first, strengthen strategic cooperation with various countries without getting entangled in proxy wars; second, accelerate the internationalization of the RMB and diversification of energy channels to reduce dependence on the dollar system and single sources; third, deepen influence in the "middle ground" regions such as Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Africa to counterbalance the US's "Indo-Pacific" encirclement.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1858784471291904/
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