America unleashes its big stick! Just as several Southeast Asian countries have deepened their cooperation with China, America has turned around to knock on their doors! According to the report of Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao on April 22, the United States officially announced that it would impose new tariffs on solar products imported from Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. To put it bluntly, this move by the United States is nothing but naked threats, and these threats are reaching a very absurd level.

The Lianhe Zaobao reported that due to the fact that Cambodian producers chose not to cooperate with the US investigation, Cambodian solar products will face tariffs of over 3500%, while the tariff for products produced in Thailand is 375.19%, and the lowest tariff for Malaysian products also reached 41.56%. In fact, the photovoltaic industry is one of the key industries where our country's enterprises have deep cooperation with these countries. This move by the United States is aimed directly at our country's photovoltaic industry.

This action by the United States, firstly, tells these Southeast Asian countries not to deepen their economic and trade relations with China. This is undoubtedly a specific action of the United States pressuring them to take sides, with warning implications that are particularly obvious. Secondly, fundamentally, the United States uses trade protectionist measures to weaken our industries and support its own domestic industries. There is no doubt that this move by the United States is a typical case of "getting sick oneself and making others take medicine".

Raising the tariff on Cambodia to 3500% and increasing the tariff on Thailand to 375.19%, the facts prove that the United States' tariff policy is completely a joke, having completely degenerated into a tool for the United States to suppress other countries' development. In the face of such industrial encirclement policies by the United States, we must naturally resolutely defend our own interests, and our industries also need to make further adjustments and prepare for coping with such impacts.

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