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▲The Biden administration released its first National Security Strategy Report on the 12th National Security Strategy Report
On October 12, the Biden administration released its first national security strategy report as a guide for this administration to formulate internal and external policies.
According to the relevant Congressional bill of 1986, the president must submit a national security strategy report to Congress every year. But for decades, only the Clinton administration has done this, and every other administration is generally submitted every four years. The last National Security Strategy Report was published on December 18, 2017. It was rushing to be released in when Trump took office, becoming an important sign of the turn of Sino-US relations. In that report, the United States defined China and Russia as "revisionist countries", believing that China and Russia challenged the strength, influence and interests of the United States, eroded the security and prosperity of the United States. emphasized that the United States ushered in a new era of competition with China. After this strategy was released, the US policy toward China became harder. In 2018, Trump launched a trade war with China and imposed top sanctions on companies such as Huawei , and the relationship between the two countries fell into a free fall.
On March 4, 2021, the Biden administration, which had just taken office, put forward the "Interim Guide to the U.S. National Security Strategy", emphasizing that China "is the only competitor that may pose a continuous challenge to a stable and open international system." The official report published on October 12 is 48 pages long and is further refined based on the "Interim Guide". The Chinese elements of are more prominent, and almost run through all chapters of the report. is not so much a routine national security strategy report, but rather a programmatic document for the United States and China to engage in all-round strategic competition.
This report was originally planned to be published in the first half of this year, but was postponed due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Although the Russian-Ukraine war was very fierce, this did not change the United States' judgment on the future strategic situation, that is, China is the only strategic competitor of the United States. The strategic report included the "three pillars of China's strategy" mentioned by Blinken in the US-China policy speech in May this year, namely investment, alliance and competition. The report emphasizes the possibility of peaceful coexistence with China and claims that it has no intention to provoke a new Cold War with China, but it is enemies with China everywhere. The report emphasizes that China is the most important geopolitical challenge for the United States, and that "the next decade is a very decisive decade". The United States must seize the window of opportunity and try to surpass China and limit Russia. The US believes that although China and Russia are "alliance", the challenges posed by the two are different to the United States. "Russia poses an urgent and persistent threat to the world security order, and is a global destructive and unstable force, but it lacks the all-round capabilities of China." "China is the only country that is willing to reconstruct the world order and is increasingly capable of achieving this goal in the economic, diplomatic, military and technological fields." Therefore, the US government "will "remaining the lasting competitive advantage over China as its top priority while curbing a very dangerous Russia."
Ironically, the strategic report statement stated that we should avoid looking at the world with the prism of strategic competition, but strategic competition has become the main line of this report, and it has made the best footnote to the United States' self-evidentification. What is even more absurd is that the United States has always emphasized the need to maintain an international order based on rules, but in fact, the United States has completely based on its own interests, defined the so-called rules, forcing relevant countries to take sides, and divide the world into so-called democracy and autocracy, highlighting its American political dominance.
Although the Biden administration's US National Security Strategy was published a little later, it did not affect the application of its policies in practice at all. A few days before the strategic report was released, the US Department of Commerce announced new regulations on semiconductor exports to China, and dozens of Chinese companies were blacklisted, not only restricting the export of semiconductors and , but also banning semiconductor production equipment, not only including US companies, but also semiconductor companies in other countries around the world.What’s worse is that all Americans or green card holders are not allowed to engage in China’s chip research and development and manufacturing without special approval. Some experts pointed out that this regulation is a cutting-edge for China's semiconductor industry, and its lethality is no less than a stranglehold on Huawei. The US threatened that the purpose of doing this is to keep China's technology gap with it in the chip field. Some experts pointed out that this approach in the United States completely violates world trade rules, and Chinese companies should take up legal weapons and allow the ugly American behavior to be tried by the world.
The Biden administration has continued some practices during the Trump era and has done everything possible to suppress China's high-tech field. Some experts pointed out that the US's ban on the semiconductor industry was a technology war launched by it, but US Secretary of Commerce Raymondo denied this and packaged the US's domineering behavior as "self-defense." It can be predicted that with the acceleration of the "decoupling" of the United States' technology from China, the technical standards and divisions between the two countries will gradually fade away, which will undoubtedly be a great harm to the future of the technology world. The division of the technology market will greatly affect the cost and expenses of product research and development. As the US technological barriers to China become higher and higher, the global low-cost era will be gone forever. In other words, the convenience brought about by globalization and popularization of technology and the cheaper products will become history. In this sense, the US's cycle of cracking down on inflation will be pushed longer and longer by the US's own stupid strategy.
