As our new era of U. S. -China festivals accelerates, the rubble of this week’s exercise of a U. S. presidential debate, followed more dramatically Friday through President Trump’s positive Covid and hospitalization, contributes to the belief and truth of Beijing’s historic achievements.
Chinese officials are unlikely to use this moment of unforeseen U. S. distraction for any kind of dramatic movement that can propel Washington, as an army movement over Taiwan’s independence to complement its recent movements toward Hong Kong more fully.
At the very least, however, Chinese officials will see this era as an additional and welcome “respite” to accentuate their ongoing efforts on a variety of fronts to build on their momentum, from strengthening the party’s personal sector over China to accelerating development. fill the remaining technological gaps with the United States.
Recent occasions have also contributed to Chinese confidence that its autocratic single-party formula, despite all its flaws and inefficiencies, is more designed to satisfy public desires and political stability than the disorder of American and Western democracy.
While Chinese officials have been cautious this week in their responses to U. S. debates and President Trump’s illness, commentators reflecting official prospects leave little doubt that President Xi Jinping sees last week as very positive for the Chinese team.
“Such chaos in more sensitive American politics reflects the division, anxiety of American society, and the growing loss of profits of the American political system,” wrote Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Spokesman for the English-speaking Communist Party. , the Global Times.
Commenting later in the week on Covid’s positive tests at the White House, Hu Xijin noted a message sent through the Chinese government to his global partners that American establishments and leaders have mis handled this year’s crisis compared to their Chinese counterparts.
“President Trump and the first girl have paid the value of their bet to downplay the Covid-19,” Hu Xijin tweeted.
Chinese leaders began to more actively question the sustainability of the American style and the risks of their dependence on it during the global monetary crisis of 2008 and 2009. Chinese leaders now see 2020, burned for their role as the first primary economy to return to expansion. after Covid-19, as a possibility to boost the global movement of strength and influence in its direction.
Two congressional reports published this week in Washington, one from the House Intelligence Committee and the other from the House Republicans on a Working Group on China, underlined the bipartisan consensus that the United States could fall behind China at a multidimensional festival for the future.
In any press week, either would have attracted more attention for their findings and recommendations.
“What we discovered is troubling,” Adam Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee of the House of Democrats, wrote to Foreign Affairs about the effects of a two-year study that found that U. S. intelligence agencies “are not in a position, let alone. “to take on the Chinese challenge.
“China itself sees a festival with the United States spreading in ideological and zero-sum terms,” wrote Schiff, who called for recruitment through intelligence agencies of an entirely new group of Americans in order to expand China’s necessary skills to “new areas, such as the area and cybernetics, that would redefine the existing conceptions of how a 21st century war would expand the battlefield of our political discourse. Fix cellular devices and the very infrastructure on which communications and fashionable virtual communities are based. “
House Republicans Kevin McCarthy and Michael McCaul, writing in the National Review about their working group’s findings, warned: “. . . America’s dangers are wasting its long road to today’s communist superpower. “Its plan requires doubling federal studies and progressive investment for synthetic intelligence and quantum computing over the next two years, ensuring that the United States is a leader in establishing foreign 5G criteria and manufacturing complex semiconductor chips.
For its part, China is accelerating its overall political, technological and economic efforts to translate the 2020 outages into ancestral achievements.
President Xi nationalized and took steps to secure the party over the movements of personal corporations, which supply 60% of the country’s economic production and 80% of its jobs. At the same time, he plans to blacklist foreign corporations and has imprisoned a prominent and un cooperative Chinese CEO, designed to send a message to everyone else.
China’s Communist Party continues to bet heavily on the extranjerization of the RMB, where it has still had marginal success, and victory in the race for an externalized virtual currency, where foreign experts can be at the forefront. its virtual currency in 4 cities, supported through the extensive implementation of virtual payment systems in the country.
On the generation front, Chinese officials use U. S. lists of controlled and sewn-in technologies as a nursery sheet from which they refine their own concentration. The top of its priority list are semiconductor chips and PC software, electromagnetic generation, synthetic intelligence, quantum computing, 5G, pharmacy, biogeneration, aerospace, robotics and automation, green technologies and the Internet of Things.
There is a tendency in Washington to underestimate China’s weaknesses: it is the lack of intake as the economy recovers, its developing debt problems, a heated population, the foreign resistance that opposes its intimidation in international relations, and the difficult economic stakes in its ambitious Belt and Road initiative.
However, many weaknesses can be forgiven when their competitor continues to kick what football enthusiasts call “their own goals. “Chinese officials see Covid’s contraction by President Trump as a self-inflicted wound, given President Xi’s elaborate and thorough efforts to prevent him from infection and weeding. your country outside Covid.
Regardless of how and when President Trump recovers and wins the U. S. election in November, President Xi focuses on how this can serve China in the long run and its historical legacy.
Frederick Kempe is an author of best-sellers, award-winning journalist and president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council, one of the most influential think tanks in the United States on global issues. He has worked at the Wall Street Journal for over 25 years. as a foreign correspondent, deputy editor and oldest editor of the European edition of the newspaper. His most recent e-book, “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the World’s Most Dangerous Place,” a New York Times bestseller and posted on more than one Follow Him on Twitter @FredKempe and subscribe here to Inflection Points, his Saturday look at last week’s top stories and trends.
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