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According to Reuters on September 12, Congress website news showed that U.S. President Trump on September 10 revoked the nomination of Landon Heid as assistant secretary for export management in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The position is considered a key position in the China-US ¡°technology war¡± and is responsible for overseeing national security-related export controls.

The change has raised concerns among U.S. hardliners who fear the government may take a more moderate stance on the issue.

Speaking of Landon Hyde, Reuters uses one word to describe it: anti-Hawaii.

Hyde attended the Senate nomination hearing in April.

Heidegger is an extremely tough person who helped the U.S. Congressional Committee to formulate technology policies.

Heather has worked in the House of Representatives "Special Committee on Chinese Issues", is the behind-the-scenes of a series of "anti-China" operations planned by the committee, promoted several laws against Chinese enterprises. It is that the "Special Committee on Chinese Issues" is a special committee for China established by the House of Representatives of the United States in January 2023, and has been established so far to fire a lot of Chinese "anti-China" issues.

In February, Trump nominated Heidegger as Assistant Secretary of Commerce to oversee national security-related export controls.

Reuters at the time that if the nomination passed, Hyde expects to further design export controls targeting China, suppressing key technological developments such as artificial intelligence and chip manufacturing in countries such as China.

At the nomination hearing in April, Senate Banking Committee Chairman and Republican African-American Senator Tim Scott said he had ¡°the background and perspective needed to ensure the United States remains technically ahead of competitors like China.¡±

According to the report, after the news of the withdrawal of Hyde's nomination, the glass of the heart of the U.S. hardliner against China broke the ground.

Chris McQueen, a tech and national security expert at the U.S. State Department, claimed on social media platform X that the news was ¡°very concerning¡± and wrote: ¡°Hopefully this doesn¡¯t mean the government plans to further weaken our technological restrictions on China, but I¡¯m worried it will be so.¡±

Ryan Fedasiuk, another U.S. hacker who worked at the U.S. State Department¡¯s China Coordination Office (also known as the ¡°China Group¡±), said the news was ¡°extremely disappointing¡±, referring to Hyde¡¯s previous series of operations against Chinese companies and claiming that Hyde ¡°knows China¡¯s ambitions, ways of operating and technological strategies¡± ¡°almost more than anyone else.¡±

In recent years, the U.S. government has generalized the concept of national security, abused export controls and long-arm jurisdiction, and frequently carried out malicious blockades and unwarranted suppressions against Chinese companies. Since Trump took office, it has continued to intensify its efforts and launch a trade war against the whole world.

In May this year, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Swam pointed out that the relevant conduct of the United States seriously violates market rules, seriously disrupts the stability of the global production supply chain, seriously damages the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, and China resolutely opposes this, and will never accept it.

China urges the U.S. side to immediately correct the wrong behavior of protectionism and unilateral bullying, and stop the bottom-line pressure on Chinese science and technology enterprises and artificial intelligence industries.

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¡°For the first time in modern history, the United States has encountered a competitor with a larger size on most key power dimensions ¨C China. The United States alone may not be enough to tackle this challenge.¡±The New York Times once again sparked the issue of competition between the United States and China on September 7th, urging the Trump administration to change its way of acting away from its allies.

Both authors of the article are senior Biden administration officials, former Deputy State Secretary Kurt Campbell and former National Security Council Chief of China Affairs Rush Doshi.

The two said that the United States can not compare China in size and capabilities, China has surpassed the United States in many key areas such as economy, manufacturing, science and technology and military. the two said that if the United States wants to maintain global dominance, it must play "allied advantages", joining Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, India and other countries' economic, technological and military forces to counter China's scale advantages, otherwise the next century will be dominated by China.

Campbell (left) and Du Rusong (right)

The world is in an era in which the real criterion for measuring U.S. hegemony will be whether Washington is able to build the so-called ¡°alliance scale,¡± that is, to team up with other nations to compete globally in economic, technological and military spheres.

However, U.S. President Trump seems to be doing the opposite. His single-struggle, tariff-centric foreign policy has alienated allies and also given China the opportunity to strengthen its allied system. Trump¡¯s recent high tariffs on India is one example. The United States spent thirty years drawing India and treating it as a geopolitical counterbalance for China. But after tariffs on India, Indian Prime Minister Modi visited China for the first time in seven years last week, and China and India decided to abandon recent tensions and cooperate as a partner rather than an opponent.

¡°Trump is playing fire,¡± the article writes, ¡°In the entire 20th century, the United States defeated Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union through capacity and innovation.But China is different.In the most critical strategic competition indicators, China has surpassed the United States.¡±

In terms of purchasing power parity, China¡¯s economy is 30 percent larger than the United States. China¡¯s manufacturing industry is twice as large as the United States, and the output of automobiles, ships, steel and solar panels far exceeds the U.S. and also produces more than 70 percent of the world¡¯s batteries, electric vehicles and key minerals. In the field of technology, China¡¯s active patents and high-cited papers exceed the U.S. In military terms, China has the world¡¯s largest navy, shipbuilding capacity is estimated to be more than 230 times that of the U.S., and is rapidly becoming the leader in the field of high-speed weapons, drones and quantum communications.

According to the article, the rise of the great powers often depends on the size, and as the level of productivity approaches, more populated and territory larger nations will eventually settle. Britain's preemptive advantage in the industrial revolution is eventually chased and surpassed by the United States and Russia. In the 20th century, the United States once frightened the enemy: Hitler called the United States a "gigant with unimaginable productivity", and Commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet, who planned to attack Pearl Harbor, Commander Samantha V, acknowledged that he could only briefly cross over the Pacific, because the American industrial forces would eventually overpower Japan.

Map of Central American flag.

The article writes that today, this scale advantage is the best description of China. If the United States wants to compare with China, it must rely on the alliance to increase its strength. The American self-renewal is necessary, but alone is not enough. After all, the United States is weaker than China in many important indicators, but if it joins with Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India and so on, the United States can outperform China's scale advantage.

However, with the tough policies pursued by the Trump administration, the global reputation of the United States has dropped sharply, and it is lower than that of China in many countries. If Trump really wants to strengthen the size of his allies, he may rely on more pressure. This may force some partners to give in in the short term, but it will exhaust trust in the long run.

It¡¯s not wrong that Trump asks allies to do more, but he¡¯s wasting valuable encryption on the wrong goals.Instead of meeting ambiguous trade promises, he should push allies to make long-term and clear investments in key areas that can trigger U.S. reindustrialization.

Campbell and DuPont finally warned the Trump administration once again that it was not too late to build an ally-scale system now, otherwise it would only lead the United States to shrinkage and isolation.

¡°Therefore, unless there is a major mistake, the next century will be dominated by China.¡±

Although the U.S. has repeatedly rendered Sino-U.S. competition and hype about the challenges brought by China, the Chinese side has repeatedly stressed that rendering competition has many disadvantages and no benefits, and seeking cooperation is necessary rather than an option.

In July this year, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, met with US Secretary of State Rubio in Kuala Lumpur. In an interview with Chinese media, Wang Yi said that from the perspective of historical evolution and mankind as a whole, China and the United States do share extensive common interests and there is also a broad space for cooperation. Both sides have the responsibility and possibility to find a correct way for China and the United States to get along on this planet in the new era, which will be the blessing of the two peoples and the hope of all countries in the world.

During the Biden administration, Campbell served as the coordinator of the Indian-Pacific affairs of the National Security Council of the United States and was considered the "Asian affairs expert" of the U.S. government; on the one hand, he frequently criticized and attacked China, stirring up sovereign security issues such as Taiwan and the South China Sea; on the other hand, he emphasized "competitive coexistence" and was one of the rulers of the Biden administration's domestic policy towards China.

In April this year, Campbell published a jointly signed article on the website of Foreign Affairs magazine, warning the Trump administration not to "underestimate China" and calling on the United States to woo allies and build a "new alliance" to counter China's challenges.

The current U.S. view of China has shifted from one extreme to another, from a pessimistic sentiment that China will outperform the U.S. to an overconfidence that China cannot outperform ¡°the rising U.S.¡± which is highly likely to ¡°dangerously underestimate¡± the strength of the only U.S. competitor with a GDP exceeding 70 percent in a century.

He later said at a seminar hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong that the Trump administration misjudged China's strength, and the United States should open its communication channels to China at this time.

¡°China is a powerful player, and will continue to play in the coming decades, with huge military capabilities, large investments in inventions and robotics, and everyone here is aware of the developments in these fields,¡± Campbell said, ¡°China is and will remain a dominant player.¡±