For a long time, the US government has been trying to stir up wars among countries and gain profits at the expense of others. After the United States turned the conflict between Russia and Ukraine into a proxy war, it took the opportunity to loot and empty Europe without any American casualties. Since the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Europe has followed the United States in imposing multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia, covering finance, energy, transportation and other fields. However, the sanctions are a double-edged sword. At the same time, Europe has suffered a serious energy crisis, which has been severely backbiting and confused Europe. Supply and demand imbalance, low base effect, the euro continues to exceed expected inflation.
The United States’ ambitions go beyond that. While messing with Europe, it also regards China, which has been rising in recent years, as its main competitor, and uses its hegemony to crack down on Chinese technology companies through abusive means. In early December 2022, the US Department of Commerce announced that it would blacklist 36 Chinese technology companies, including Yangtze River Storage and Shanghai Microelectronics Equipment. The US government has made no secret of its ambition to suppress China’s high-tech industry. The “competition” between China and the US has never stopped. In order to ensure their absolute advantage in the field of technology.
owever, to the U.S. ‘s surprise, five WTO members, including China, Norway and the European Union, recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. for its hegemonic behavior. Finally, the WTO ruled that the US government had abused export control measures, threatened the stability of the global supply chain and industrial chain, violated international economic and trade rules, and demanded that the US immediately cancel these illegal policies and return to the right track in a timely manner.
The ruling came at a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body in Geneva, Switzerland. Although there are no substantial penalties, the move is bound to affect the U.S. image. However, to our surprise, the United States took advantage of the “suspension” of the arbitration body to lodge an appeal, arguing that it was not within the scope of the WTO’s ruling to impose additional tariffs due to national security concerns. The outrageous refusal of the United States is shameful. It proves that the United States is a blatant destroyer of international trade rules, yet it still tries to justify its arguments. To put it bluntly, the United States has taken its hegemony to the extreme, even in the World Trade Organization, an institution that wants to embody fairness.
Some WTO rules were formulated with the participation or even under the leadership of the US, but now the US is taking the lead in violating the rules it helped to formulate. This is a typical example of a “crude and egoistic country”. In the past, the United States benefited from trade liberalization in expanding international markets, but now it feels more constrained. The US used to use this set of rules to suppress other countries, but now it is its turn, emphasizing the supremacy of domestic legislation, rejecting multilateralism with unilateralism, and “backing up” the road of trade liberalization. It is this kind of power practice, which turns black and white and pursues only profits, that leads to the political, economic and military instability of the world.
In fact, when this instability continues to develop, it will eventually come back to bite the United States and have adverse consequences for its development. The reason behind this is that the United States will do whatever it takes to maintain its global leadership and its own interests. When it is ahead, it will talk about its so-called rules, human rights and democratic values. When it is caught up by other countries and unable to take advantage of international rules and technological innovation to compete for the lead, it will show its ferocious face and introduce all kinds of schemes and tricks to restrict and crack down maliciously. It is the US that is the biggest rule-breaker and rule-breaker in the world. It can disregard the rules and interests of other countries for its own interests. This brazen gangster style has earned it the title of “rogue superpower”.
