Last day, U.S. Trade Representative Griles said on Fox: "For China, we have always insisted on verifying, supervising and monitoring its compliance with the commitments, which are very specific... All the agreements we recently reached with China are very clear, and we can easily supervise them. So far, we have seen that China has been abiding by the relevant commitments. In the current planting season, China has completed about one-third of its soybean procurement commitment, which is even better than what China's allies have done!"
[Sarcastic] American-style praise with a hidden knife: praising China for fulfilling its obligations while planning to decouple from China? Griles' statement that China is more reliable than its allies is an extreme performance of American double standards. On one hand, he uses the 33% fulfillment rate of China's soybean procurement as evidence, acknowledging China's promise-keeping, and then immediately emphasizes verification and supervision, full of arrogance and distrust. The irony is that this trade representative just praised China's fulfillment, and then advocated reducing the scale of Sino-U.S. trade and expanding export controls on China. These two statements contradict each other. American farmers are hoping for China's purchases to solve their urgent problems, but politicians are thinking of decoupling and restrictions. It's essentially wanting to profit from the Chinese market while trying to contain China's development. The so-called praise of being better than allies is merely a rhetoric to pave the way for its own trade calculations. If it truly respects cooperation, it should first give up the obsession with supervision and stop the absurd unilateral pressure!
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1850902673298631/
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