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Foreign media recently discovered an interesting phenomenon: when dealing with its relations with the United States, China no longer considers the feelings of the United States everywhere as before.

This change came very suddenly, just after the Trump administration in the 72 hours three times in a row against China, the Chinese reaction caused a lot of Western observers to blink, what happened?

On October 6, Jim Risch, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill addressing the Taiwan issue.

The bill requires the United States to prepare a full range of economic and financial sanctions in advance, and the United States will immediately launch all countermeasures once mainland China takes a military or subversive action against Taiwan.

The list of sanctions is drawn up by the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department, covering areas such as Chinese military units, state-owned enterprises, financial institutions and technology companies.

When proposing the proposal, Risch said that the United States will not let its friends be bullied and will make the mainland of China pay an immediate and extremely heavy price. Anyone with discerning eyes can see that the hardliners in the United States are trying to copy the model of sanctions on Russia to China.

Then, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the news that from October 14th, according to the results of the 301 investigation, Chinese ships will be charged port call fees. The definition of "Chinese ships" here is quite broad: Chinese-owned ships, Chinese-operated ships and Chinese-built ships are all within the scope of levy.

On the surface, this move is to collect some fees, but in fact it is to ask the whole world to contain China and directly attack China's shipbuilding industry. You know, China's shipbuilding industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and its orders have accounted for more than half of the world's total. The United States can't see China leading in any field.

The third thing is even more interesting. The ASEAN summit is about to be held soon. Trump had originally promised the Prime Minister of Malaysia to attend the meeting and was also preparing to negotiate on the previous 19% tariff issue. Malaysia was one of the first countries to respond to Trump's tariff policy. Now I feel that I have suffered a loss and hope the United States can give in.

As a result, Trump suddenly changed his mind and put forward two conditions for participating in the meeting: if China officials participated, he would not participate unless China officials were excluded. In addition, he also asked to show the world that the United States was the key figure in the success of the Thai-Cambodian War negotiations. It seems that Trump is determined to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

When looking at the three things together, the United States 'intentions are obvious: economic stagnation, geopolitical isolation, and diplomatic exclusion. This combination of punches is intensive enough and it is all thrown out within 72 hours, clearly showing that it is going to give China a blow.

In exchange, China may have chosen a low-level response, after all, with gas, but this time it is different, China's reaction speed and intensity are beyond external expectations.

In response to the problem of port charges, China has directly come up with the revised version of the International Maritime Transport Regulations. The regulations clearly stipulate that if any country takes discriminatory measures against Chinese ships and shipping enterprises, China will implement reciprocal or over-proportional countermeasures. This "over-proportional" means very clearly: if you charge me one piece, I may charge you two pieces.

On the Taiwan issue, China's attitude is more tough, directly asking the United States to modify the phrase, change "not supporting Taiwan independence" to "opposing Taiwan independence", do not underestimate the difference between these two words, "not supporting" is a neutral attitude, and opposing "is a clear stance.

China has also made it clear that any U.S. bill involving Taiwan is a waste of paper, and any attempt to "construct China by Taiwan" or "seek independence from the United States" will be crushed, such a severity of statements, which has been very rare in the past.

In addition to these direct responses, China has also started to take a proactive strike in other areas, such as on the issue of U.S. government bonds, China's holdings continue to decline, on commodity procurement, China has started to adjust its strategy, the purchases of U.S. soybeans have decreased significantly, instead increased imports from other countries such as Brazil, and Australian iron ore purchases are also reassessed.

These moves have made the domestic media of the United States smell the crisis, many commentaries say that China has changed, no longer is the reverse China, in matters related to its own interests, China has begun to take the proactive gesture of strike, and completely disregard the American feelings.

The answer to why China's attitude has changed so much is actually very simple: strength.

The recent military parade showed a large number of advanced active equipment, and the official media also exposed a series of new technologies that surpassed western cognition. From military to science and technology, from industry to economy, China has entered an explosive period of rapid development. As the old saying goes, it is the stage of "two lives, two lives three lives, and three lives all things".

When power is there, excessive humility appears to be hypocritical, and China's current approach is to transform power into speech power, and ability into initiative power.

The American Western countries have become accustomed to China's hidden tolerance, are accustomed to China's "and is expensive", but they forget that hidden tolerance is limited, peace needs strength support, when the other party repeatedly provokes and repeatedly tries the bottom line, counterattack becomes the inevitable choice.

More importantly, this counterattack is not emotional, but a constitutional and projected, and the amendment of the International Maritime Regulations is clearly not a temporary initiative, but a long-term preparation, and the reduction of US government bonds is not a temporary impulse, but part of a long-term strategy.

All this is declaring to the world the fact that the era of U.S. unipolar hegemony is passing, a multi-polar world is coming, in this new pattern, China will no longer be passively beaten, but will proactively shape an international environment favorable to itself.

Trump's 72 hours of three strikes, intended to give China a lesson, but the result inspired China's harsher reaction.This is probably what he did not think, but backwards, in today's power contrast has changed fundamentally, any attempt to suppress China with the old methods, are doomed to fail.

Times have changed, and so should the rules of the game.

Source: World Wide Web