According to Reference News Network, the US media recently published an article predicting the top ten global risks in 2023. It is worth noting that almost all of these risks involve the United States, and several of them involve China.
According to the content of the article, these ten risks are: The conflict in Ukraine triggers multiple crises, the problem of food insecurity is becoming increasingly serious, new confrontations between the West and Iran may arise, the debt crisis in developing countries is intensifying, global debt is rising, there is a lack of global cooperation, a technologically polarized and fragmented system, the impact of climate change continues to worsen, Sino-US relations continue to intensify tension, and the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous.
It is obvious that the emergence of these ten problems has a certain basis in reality, and all of them are indispensable for the United States to add fuel to the flames. This shows that the United States is an out-and-out troublemaker and a country that has brought crises to the world.
U.S. President Biden
Regarding the Ukraine issue, it is well known that the United States and the West have been providing weapons to Ukraine, which has greatly increased the possibility of spillover of the Ukrainian conflict. After all, Russia has repeatedly warned that if it continues to provide military aid to Ukraine, it may expand the scope of the conflict. Especially recently, the United States also agreed to provide "Patriot" missiles to Ukraine.
In addition, the continuous aid to Ukraine has also brought about some negative problems, that is, aid fatigue to Ukraine, and because the current US and Western aid to Ukraine is unbalanced, it is difficult to guarantee whether there will be conflicts.
Regarding the issue of food security, we must know that there is already a serious food crisis, and countries around the world, especially African countries, are particularly severely affected.
Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Although the United Nations has called on Russia and Ukraine, two major food exporting countries, to sign a food agreement in order to alleviate this problem, judging from the actual situation, Russia's food exports are still obstructed by the United States and the West, and most of the food exported by Ukraine flows to Western countries, which has not done much to alleviate the global food crisis.
On the Iran issue, due to the unilateral sanctions of the United States and the Western pressure on the United Nations to pass unfair resolutions related to Iran, the promotion of the current Iran nuclear agreement is not optimistic, and the relationship between Iran and the West is also deteriorating.
This move has greatly increased the possibility of serious conflicts between Iran and the United States and the West in the future. After all, as Iran continues to purify and enrich uranium , it has the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons .
Iran
Although the current international community does not support or allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, no one can guarantee that once Iran achieves a technological breakthrough and is under pressure from the United States and the West, it will choose to take desperate risks.
Regarding issues related to the debt crisis in developing countries and rising global debt, the US media expressed "concern" that "developing countries may experience more poverty in 2023", but failed to mention that these problems are largely due to the United States extraditing its own economic problems to the world.
In order to alleviate its own serious inflation problem, the Federal Reserve has been aggressively raising interest rates recently, and has led other countries to adjust their economic measures in order to avoid local currency depreciation and more losses. Because of this, this series of actions by the United States and the West has caused instability in the global economy, and has also indirectly led to the worsening of the debt crisis in developing countries.
The United States radically raises interest rates
In terms of global cooperation, some countries led by the United States have focused their bilateral relations on competition. As a result, the current competition among major countries is particularly fierce, and the possibility of cooperation has become relatively smaller. Moreover, because competition is constantly amplified, cooperation among countries has become more difficult.
In terms of technical issues, US media also stated that "as the United States' competition with China intensifies, China will not be able to obtain more foreign products and will have to replace them with Chinese products", adding that "this weakens the motivation to comply with global standards."
Based on the actual situation, we can see that the United States is currently implementing a technological blockade, fragmenting semiconductor technologies from all over the world, and then integrating them into the United States. And the allies of the United States also started to suppress China. Obviously, the source of disrupting the stability of the global supply chain is the United States, not China.
Containers from China to the United States
When it comes to Sino-US relations, US media focused on describing the "fundamental differences" between China and the United States on trade, technical standards, especially the Taiwan issue, and pointed out in a serious way that "the tension between China and the United States is constantly intensifying and may be derailed."
Although Sino-US relations have been relatively tense recently due to a series of wrong actions by the United States, it is clear from the many high-level meetings between the two sides that both sides intend to manage their differences. The US media's reports of deliberately exaggerating Sino-US conflicts and ignoring Sino-US cooperation make people doubt that this is a rhetoric technique that Western public opinion has always been good at "creating panic".
In fact, the key to how China-U.S. relations get back on track lies in the attitude of the United States. U.S. officials have emphasized to China in person that they are "willing to set up guardrails for the relationship between the two countries." But the most important thing is to implement concrete actions so that domestic public opinion in the United States from top to bottom believes that China-U.S. relations can get better. This is much more effective than any verbal commitment.
China-US talks
As for the peninsula issue, the US media claimed that North Korea repeatedly tested missiles in response to external security threats, leading to regional tensions. However, it never mentioned the disgraceful role played by the United States, Japan and South Korea in the tension on the peninsula.
In recent years, the United States, Japan and South Korea have united to exert maximum pressure on North Korea, ignoring North Korea's reasonable security concerns, resulting in increasing tension on the peninsula. However, despite this, the United States, Japan and South Korea still do not intend to stop here, but continue to put pressure on it.
Under such circumstances, the United States, Japan and South Korea are likely to cause greater risks to the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, China, as a close neighbor of the peninsula, has repeatedly stood up and called on relevant parties to exercise restraint, refrain from taking actions that may cause misjudgments and intensify the situation, and promote a politicized solution to the peninsula issue.
The alliance between the United States, Japan and South Korea
It is not difficult to see that the above 10 major risks are traceable, and in the final analysis they are all the negative impacts of the United States' hegemony and unilateral bullying. However, the US media intentionally or unintentionally mentioned China when making "predictions", which is very funny.
At present, it is time for countries around the world to work together to deal with risks. Therefore, we advise some countries that are particularly prone to causing risks to stop causing troubles on their own and work together for world peace and stability instead of becoming a stumbling block. Otherwise, they will end up shooting themselves in the foot.
