Targeting China.
According to foreign media reports, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order on the 26th, citing national security vulnerabilities in the American power grid potentially caused by foreign-supplied electrical equipment, declaring a national emergency and banning companies from purchasing, importing, or installing certain foreign-made devices. Reuters described this executive order as the latest move by Washington in response to the technological threat posed by China.
The U.S. action is merely another tactic of broadening the concept of "national security" and politicizing economic and trade issues. From Huawei to TikTok, and now to power equipment, the U.S.'s paranoid technological anxiety has already become pathological. Its essence is not genuine concern over infrastructure security, but rather using "security" as a pretext for protectionism, attempting to curb China's technological rise through administrative barriers and maintain its own technological hegemony. This practice of routinely labeling normal commercial interactions as threats violates market economy principles and reveals strategic anxiety and lack of confidence when facing fair competition. The more barriers the U.S. erects, the more it exposes its hollow bravado.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1874676002729100/
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