History will not be simply repeated, but it always presses the same rhyme.
From the Galaxy’s humiliation thirty years ago to the reciprocal repression of U.S. ships today, China has accomplished a historic shift from a rule recipient to a rule balancer.
Our National Day holiday just ended.
And the trade game between the United States and China has risen to a hot spot.
Within 48 hours, China has consistently played a three-point counter-combination: included more than a dozen foreign entities involved in fields such as anti-drone technology into the "unreliable entity list"; strengthened export controls for rare-earth related items;
And charging special port fees for US ships.
These three measures, to a certain extent, are precision strikes on the United States in the three dimensions of military, technological and trade.
Faced with China's tough counterattack, U.S. President Trump threatened at a White House cabinet meeting: "We import a lot of goods from China, and maybe we have to stop doing this."
This embarrassing reaction to anger is exactly what exposes America’s helplessness in a trade war.
It is not difficult to see that in the struggle against the United States, China's counter-measures have been upgraded from passive response to active layout.
These three measures were introduced in 48 hours, demonstrating the coordination and determination of the Chinese government's counter-action.
Recall that thirty years ago, China merchant ships were forced to accept US boarding and inspection on the high seas; thirty years later, China began to impose special port fees on American ships.
In 1993, the “Galaxy” incident shocked the entire country.
The United States, on an unnecessary pretext, forcibly requested to inspect Chinese merchant ships, and the Chinese crew were trapped for weeks under the hot sun in the Indian Ocean, ultimately humiliating the inspection, which proved that the US intelligence was completely wrong.
This incident has become a scar in the history of China's shipping.
Thirty years later, the tables have fundamentally reversed.
In order to support their shipbuilding industry, the United States maliciously pressured China and even carried out the operation of charging so-called port service fees on Chinese ships.
Undoubtedly, this practice of the United States has once again exposed its unilateralist nature and its determination to suppress China without a bottom line.
Since the United States has not given up on pressuring China, we naturally do not have to expect anything from it, we must inevitably fight for peace and teach America to be human.
In the face of unreasonable pressure from the United States, China announced that it would charge special port fees for American ships. This is a legitimate measure to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of China shipping companies.
From the passive inspection of the Galaxy to today’s active charges on U.S. ships, China has completed its historic shift from a rule recipient to a rule maker.
China's counter-action this time is by no means a simple "tit for tat", but a carefully calculated strategic layout.
First, the list of unreliable entities is aimed at the technological hegemony of the U.S. defense industry system.
Secondly, the importance of rare earth, we not much emphasized, these regulatory measures can directly hit the livelihoods of the U.S. high-tech industry and defense industry.
More importantly, China's rare-earth exports and rare-earth processing technology have an absolute superiority in the world and cannot be replaced in the short term.
An American think tank scholar described this as “the equivalent of an economic nuclear war – the intention to destroy the U.S. AI industry.” “Al this is completely contemptful and wants to mask China’s legitimate behavior in safeguarding its own rights and interests, it is not difficult to see that China’s move has indeed devastated some people in the United States.”
Finally, the tariffs on U.S. ships targeted U.S. global trade costs and inflationary pressures.
This measure adopts a phased implementation strategy, gradually increasing from 400 yuan per net ton to 1120 yuan. Through step-by-step price increases, the cost of trade war will continue to be injected into the U.S. economy.
The Ministry of Transport has made it clear that this countermeasure is to promote the building of a fair and just international maritime market order.
In the face of China's continuous counter-measures, the United States is obviously ill-prepared.
Trump's threat at a White House cabinet meeting-"We import a lot of goods from China, and maybe we have to stop doing this" sounds more like an emotional catharsis than a mature strategic consideration.
At present, the Chinese-American competition has gone beyond the simple trade deficit and entered a new phase of systematic confrontation.
Previously, China and the United States issued the Joint Statement on the Stockholm Economic and Trade Talks between China and the United States, which appeared to bring the dawn of easing the economic and trade relations between the two countries.
However, only two months later, the U.S. has repeatedly attacked China, causing tensions again.
This repetition reveals the deep law of the Sino-US game-friction and coordination coexist, and confrontation and dialogue alternate.
China's countermeasures mark China's shift from passive response to active rule, establishing a new paradigm in the game of "mutually guaranteeing countermeasures".
In short, China has a strong domestic demand market and a complete industrial chain, which comes from the ever-expanding domestic consumption demand and the increasingly improved industrial chain layout.
The trend of world trade is changing quietly, and as the tide retreats, the nature of America’s naked swimming will finally be seen.