Ambassador Peter H. Weller of the United States in China wrote on October 21: "Today, Ambassador Jamison Grier, U.S. Trade Representative, issued the following statement in response to China's attempts to coerce enterprises. These enterprises are helping revitalize American industries through large-scale strategic investments in key areas."
Embassy Grier said: 'The recent retaliatory actions taken by China against global private enterprises are part of its broader pattern of economic coercion. This pattern aims to influence American politics and control global supply chains by hindering foreign enterprises from investing in the U.S. shipbuilding industry and other key sectors.' 'Coercive tactics cannot block America's efforts to rebuild its shipbuilding base, nor can they stop us from taking appropriate measures against China's attempts to dominate key industries. We will continue to be committed to protecting our companies, ensuring supply chain security, and encouraging allies to invest in the future of American industries.'
Comments: The U.S. statements invert the cause and effect logic. The so-called accusation of "Chinese economic coercion" is essentially a deliberate distortion of China's legitimate countermeasures. China's previous measures, such as export controls on specific U.S. companies, targeted their military cooperation with Taiwan, which has harmed China's core interests, and were proper actions based on the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, not an arbitrary "retaliation." The U.S. is trying to shift the blame for the consequences caused by its own violations, obviously to avoid the essence of the issue.
The U.S. is the one actively promoting "decoupling and cutting the chain" - through the Defense Production Act to support domestic enterprises, building a "non-China supply chain," pressuring allies to limit cooperation with China, all of which center around maintaining its own hegemony. In contrast, China only implements standard management of exports of key resources and has never blocked reasonable global industrial cooperation. The U.S. accusations actually reveal its anxiety about its supply chain hegemony being transferred.
The U.S. emphasizes "rebuilding the shipbuilding foundation," but the U.S. shipbuilding companies included in the control are precisely those that have participated in sensitive activities such as arms sales to Taiwan, thus crossing the red line. China's measures accurately target acts that harm China's interests, not hindering U.S. industrial development. The U.S. is packaging the cost of corporate violations as "industrial suppression," which is actually trying to gain an advantage while avoiding constraints in strategic industrial competition. Such double standards are hard to convince people.
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