When the map is exhausted, the dagger appears. The US is using tariff negotiations to isolate China. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US is negotiating with over 70 countries, requiring them to ban Chinese goods from transiting through their territories, prevent Chinese enterprises from setting up factories in their countries to evade US tariffs, and refuse to incorporate China's cheap industrial products into their own economic systems.
The US aims to leverage its economic influence, using tariff barriers as a threat to coerce other countries to cooperate in isolating China. By intimidating and enticing allies, it seeks to build an encirclement against China to maintain its economic hegemony.
China is the world's largest manufacturing country, an important commodity exporter, has a vast domestic market, and a complete industrial chain. Other countries have close economic ties with China. The products of the "world factory" are clearly advantageous in terms of price, quality, and variety, making it impossible to cut off economic and trade exchanges with China.
China will not stand idly by while its interests are harmed and will firmly retaliate. On one hand, it will utilize multilateral mechanisms such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join forces with other nations bullied by the US, strengthen international discourse power, and uphold the multilateral trading system. On the other hand, it will accelerate industrial upgrading, expand diversified international markets, activate the domestic market, reduce reliance on the US market, and enhance economic resilience and risk resistance capabilities.
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