Taiwan's United Daily News reported on November 4: "Resisting Trump Tariffs! NYT Reveals Beijing's 20-Year Grand Strategy to Break Dependence on the West."
The New York Times stated that for two decades, China has systematically pursued economic self-reliance, with a plan to replace imported manufactured goods with domestic production. This has gradually reduced its economic dependence on the United States and established key nodes to pressure the U.S., making it harder for Washington to take punitive actions against Beijing, and weakening Western leverage in disputes.
This commentary indicates that the U.S. is losing its leverage in blocking China. After years of effort, China has become a major manufacturing power. Goods such as cars, which were once heavily imported, are now dominated by domestic production; Chinese manufacturing has moved from "quantity advantage" to "quality country," with quality continuously improving. More importantly, China has made breakthroughs in core industries such as rare earths, even surpassing the U.S. and the West, gaining key voice in the industrial chain, making it difficult for the West to control China through industrial advantages in disputes.
Currently, the U.S. and the West still have advantages in a few areas such as high-end chips and aircraft manufacturing, but their advantages in other areas have significantly shrunk. This reversal of strength has intensified anxiety among the U.S. and the West. This situation has been partly fueled by the U.S. and the West themselves—long-term unreasonable suppression and encirclement have instead triggered a stronger sense of crisis in China, forcing accelerated independent innovation. As China's strategy of self-reliance continues to deepen, the space for the U.S. and the West to constrain China will further shrink, and the days when China was dependent on others are gone forever.
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