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Sanction And Counter Sanction between U.S.-China Must Stop Dr. Wordman

US-China relation is deteriorating daily from trade China is prepared to offer counter sanction if the people.The above measures are simply sanctions
dispute entering into technology and broad com- U.S. applies sanction to HK and an indication of happening which will lead to counter sanctions
merce domain even agitated diplomatic battle China feeling necessary and capable of making with outcomes unpredictable. We must use some
and military confrontation. US-China affairs not counter sanctions. logic to analyze this confrontation to fend off seri-
only appear as headlines but also make the stock ous disasters:
market flying up and down. Anyone following cur- At South China Sea, the U.S. has challenged
rent events knows that the US-China confrontation China’s sovereignty even though she recognized First, we must recognize that the US-China confron-
not only causes Wall Street uneasy but also threat- China’s historical sovereignty through the Repub- tation has unnecessarily broadened from trade to
ens the world economy. lic of China (ROC). The U.S. first encouraged the multi-front, economy, military, technology, diplo-
Philippines to challenge China in an arbitration macy and all hard and soft domains. On the U.S.
The U.S. has been a strong nation over a century, court then raise the Freedom of Navigation issue side, she has plenty of experiences and many al-
having the strongest military force in the world and in SCS. But China had put up strong objections and liances in the world to tackle this confrontation.
an economy peaked at 40% of the world GDP one- prepared counter measures. Diplomatically Chi- The two political parties in the U.S. seem to have
time. The U.S. assumed the responsibility of main- na quieted the Philippines’ arbitration case and already taken a united position against China with
taining world security. She often applies econom- surprisingly China built and extended the islands no debate. The US government is trying to unite its
ic, military, and legal sanction and punishment to in her possession to have airfields and deep sea alliances to confront China. However, the US elites
her opponents, quite successfully over the years ports capable of offering defense and rescue op- and citizens do not have an unified view on Chi-
owing to her economic and military power. For erations in SCS. With China’s naval defense capa- na, in fact, only a small faction taking a hardline
example, there were economic sanctions against bility, it has made the U.S. hesitating to enter her position against China with the majority opposing
North Korea, Iran and Russia and military sanctions navy into China’s legal territories. confrontation and preferring to seek a solution.
against Middle East enemy states, China, Russia, Some openly endorse peaceful competition and
etc. including restrictions of military sales to many The U.S. is used to apply sanctions and gain suc- some even take a pro-China position wanting the
countries. There were legal punishment to foreign cessful results; even the powerful Soviet Union was U.S. to reflect on her own missteps in managing her
corporations under the Foreign Corruption Prac- collapsed under U.S. led sanctions. Now the U.S. is economy.
tices Act, FCPA; the French company, Alston, was targeting China in all front. “The Commission on the
fined hundreds of million dollars and nearly went Present Danger: China’ has been set up. This type On the China side, through her non-interference
into bankruptcy. of organization has only been established three and win-win economic co-development policies,
times in the past; first one, in 1950 for stopping the she has earned many friends, especially in the de-
For reducing trade deficit, the US President Trump spread of communism, the second, in 1976, tar- veloping world. In the Chinese government, there
initiated tariff war and started a trade war against geting the Soviet Union and the third, in 2004, for does not seem to have an unified hardline posi-
China. Not like the neighboring countries of the countering terrorism, all essentially successful. This tion confronting the U.S. Although, this may be in-
U.S., China did not yield completely due to her own is of course because of the real economic and mil- terpreted as a strategy of ‘maintaining a low-key
economic strength. The US economy has been re- itary power the U.S. possesses. Whether the com- position avoiding flaring the confrontational rela-
duced proportionally to 20% of the world economy mission targeted at China would succeed or not tionship, but the Chinese, like the American, elites
whereas China has achieved no. 2 position of the is unpredictable, very much depending on each’s and citizens are obviously divided in opinion, only
world economy threatening the U.S. to become no. economic and military power. a small population expressing hardline views to-
1. The U.S. has extended the trade war to technol- wards the other. The majority seems to desire to
ogy war applying punishment and sanction to Chi- In the power play between the U.S. and China, al- take a pro-US peaceful relationship. So based on
nese companies ZTE and Huawei. ZTE was fined for though the U.S. is superior in military power, but as the above analyses, it is logical to expect the two
its deal with Iran and Huawei was banned to do both sides possessing nuclear warheads, guided great nations to take a peaceful competition path.
business in the U.S. citing security exposure. Hua- missiles and independent communication (includ-
wei apparently was prepared and succeeded to ing GPS) capabilities, the military power can do no The development of international affairs is hardly
maintain growth in other parts of the world. With more than detente or facing mutual destruction. rational and logical. In the future, the probability
these, China has begun a nation-wide technology The economic power is far more important and all of sanctions and counter sanctions between the
innovation plan preparing to compete with the U.S. other areas, diplomacy, technology and financial U.S and China is likely to increase. If the U.S. gov-
for a long haul. endeavors depend on real economic clout. Today, ernment maintains a firm anti-China position and
the economic powers of the U.S. and China are at the Chinese government holds an wavering posi-
Reacting to China’s rise, the U.S. has identified par. That is why the U.S. can not just freely apply tion, then with the US experience in targeting her
China as a competitor launching an all-front sanctions to China without receiving counter sanc- enemy, China may be very vulnerable despite of
confrontation playing any card available. For ex- tions from China. the people of desire peace. As we know sanctions
ample, on the recent Hong Kong (HK) unrest, the and counter sanctions can only escalate the con-
U.S. is suspected to be a promoter hidden in the At present, no one can predict the outcome of the frontation to war if situation mismanaged. Since
background and the US Congress has just passed US-China confrontation. The U.S. has dominated the majority of the people on both sides do not
a new HK Human Rights and Democracy Act pre- the world stage for a century, her experience in want war, then the sanctions and counter sanc-
paring reasons or excuses to sanction HK. China strategic power play is respectable. Recently, the tions must stop! It is wise for both countries to cul-
exercised extreme patience in dealing with the HK U.S. sanctioned five Chinese citizens and six Chi- tivate a united position accepting peaceful com-
riots preparing to fix the management ultimately. nese corporations over transferring oil from Iran. petition with people’s support. All people should
Not surprisingly, China has begun to apply counter China just won from a WTO case permitting her urge their governments to define such a policy,
sanction against the US sanctions, first declaring to apply sanction on 3.6 billion American goods. since any hostile alternative will only lead the two
sanctions on National Endowment for Democracy China also declared trade sanctions on several US nations to mutual destruction. The history of two
(NED) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), corporations for selling military gear to Taiwan. The World War tells us that no government should push
then denied review of US Navy’s request for dock- two countries each now has established ‘entity’ its people to war; win or lose, people will be hurt
ing at HK for supply. These are signs showing that and ‘black’ lists on not-welcomed companies and badly. If a nuclear war was triggered, the world

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