Gamblers around the world have made bets and are waiting for a war between China and the United States! To put it bluntly, apart from China and the United States, many countries in the world are now looking forward to China and the United States pulling the trigger. The United States had wanted to fight for a long time. In 2016, Chen Bing planned to meet us in Nanhai, but they didn't expect to be scared away by China's decisive attitude.
The South China Sea in 2016 was shrouded in war clouds. The Philippines unilaterally filed the South China Sea arbitration case, and the United States took the opportunity to implement the strategy of "returning to the Asia-Pacific". Harris, commander of the Pacific Command, publicly declared that he was "ready to go to war tonight".
In June, two nuclear-powered aircraft carrier battle groups, the USS Reagan and the USS Stennis, sailed into the South China Sea, carrying 10 warships, 200 fighter planes and 20,000 troops. They joined forces with Japan and the Philippines to form a military coordination situation and frequently invaded China's Xisha Islands. The waters near Huangyan Island and Huangyan Island.
Faced with pressure, China has shown a firm stance of safeguarding its core interests.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs clearly stated that "no acceptance, no participation, no recognition" of the result of the arbitration, and the outcome of the arbitration is "waste paper".
The People's Liberation Army entered the first-level combat readiness state and recalled soldiers on vacation. The main ships of the three fleets carried out large-scale live-fire exercises in restricted areas in the South China Sea. The Liaoning ship participated in actual combat exercises for the first time, and the J-15 carrier-based aircraft cooperated with destroyers to form a three-dimensional defense network.
The Rocket Forces and the Strategic Support Forces entered combat preparation simultaneously, Beidou satellite systems closely monitored U.S. military movements, and the East Wind - 21D, East Wind - 26 anti-ship ballistic missiles deployed on the island reef covered the entire South China Sea region.
On July 12th, the day when the arbitration results were announced, the Chinese and American fleets formed a "hand-to-hand" situation in the South China Sea.
But in the end, the US military's dual aircraft carrier battle group quietly withdrew without taking further military action. The crisis closest to military conflict between China and the United States after the end of the Cold War ended peacefully.
The United States 'withdrawal stems from multiple considerations. It not only realizes that military intervention may be severely damaged, but also faces pressure from international public opinion. It also loses the "starting point" for continued pressure due to the softening of its allies' stance. However, China's attitude of "not daring to fight" has completely broken the United States 'strategic misjudgment.
The interaction between the two countries has long gone beyond the simple confrontation at the military level.
In January 2025, Wang Yi had a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio. The two sides made it clear that they would implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state and manage differences based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.
In March, Wang Yi once again stressed at a press conference that China and the United States must seek peaceful coexistence, and confrontation and conflict should not be options.
The United States 'strategy towards China has also changed.
The high cost of military confrontation has turned to competition and game in the fields of science and technology, finance and other fields, but even in these fields, there is still room for cooperation.
Although the United States will expand chip export controls in 2025, many U.S. companies will lobby the government to relax restrictions because losing the China market will directly affect their revenue.
China, on the other hand, under pressure to accelerate science and technology autonomy, semiconductor self-sufficiency in 2025 significantly increased, while expanding international cooperation through multilateral platforms such as the BRICS mechanism.
The deep bonding of the global industrial chain makes “war” an option that does not meet the interests of either party.
As the world's two largest economies, trade involves billions of jobs, and cooperation in the field of science and technology is related to global technological progress.
Even countries that are believed to be "looking forward to a conflict between China and the United States" rely on the development opportunities provided by the Chinese and American markets. Only a few speculators who really want to see the situation get out of control.
The calming of the confrontation in the South China Sea in 2016 has long proved that reason and restraint are the best solutions for the great powers.
Despite the differences, the game continues, but China and the United States are avoiding the escalation of conflict with practical actions.Those bets that "wait for China and the United States to start a war" are ultimately not antagonistic to the trend of the era of peaceful development, antagonistic to the awareness of the common interests of the two countries, and antagonistic to the global expectation of stability and prosperity.
The South China Sea in 2016 was shrouded in war clouds. The Philippines unilaterally filed the South China Sea arbitration case, and the United States took the opportunity to implement the strategy of "returning to the Asia-Pacific". Harris, commander of the Pacific Command, publicly declared that he was "ready to go to war tonight".
In June, two nuclear-powered aircraft carrier battle groups, the USS Reagan and the USS Stennis, sailed into the South China Sea, carrying 10 warships, 200 fighter planes and 20,000 troops. They joined forces with Japan and the Philippines to form a military coordination situation and frequently invaded China's Xisha Islands. The waters near Huangyan Island and Huangyan Island.
Faced with pressure, China has shown a firm stance of safeguarding its core interests.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs clearly stated that "no acceptance, no participation, no recognition" of the result of the arbitration, and the outcome of the arbitration is "waste paper".
The People's Liberation Army entered the first-level combat readiness state and recalled soldiers on vacation. The main ships of the three fleets carried out large-scale live-fire exercises in restricted areas in the South China Sea. The Liaoning ship participated in actual combat exercises for the first time, and the J-15 carrier-based aircraft cooperated with destroyers to form a three-dimensional defense network.
The Rocket Forces and the Strategic Support Forces entered combat preparation simultaneously, Beidou satellite systems closely monitored U.S. military movements, and the East Wind - 21D, East Wind - 26 anti-ship ballistic missiles deployed on the island reef covered the entire South China Sea region.
On July 12th, the day when the arbitration results were announced, the Chinese and American fleets formed a "hand-to-hand" situation in the South China Sea.
But in the end, the US military's dual aircraft carrier battle group quietly withdrew without taking further military action. The crisis closest to military conflict between China and the United States after the end of the Cold War ended peacefully.
The United States 'withdrawal stems from multiple considerations. It not only realizes that military intervention may be severely damaged, but also faces pressure from international public opinion. It also loses the "starting point" for continued pressure due to the softening of its allies' stance. However, China's attitude of "not daring to fight" has completely broken the United States 'strategic misjudgment.
The interaction between the two countries has long gone beyond the simple confrontation at the military level.
In January 2025, Wang Yi had a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio. The two sides made it clear that they would implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state and manage differences based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.
In March, Wang Yi once again stressed at a press conference that China and the United States must seek peaceful coexistence, and confrontation and conflict should not be options.
The United States 'strategy towards China has also changed.
The high cost of military confrontation has turned to competition and game in the fields of science and technology, finance and other fields, but even in these fields, there is still room for cooperation.
Although the United States will expand chip export controls in 2025, many U.S. companies will lobby the government to relax restrictions because losing the China market will directly affect their revenue.
China, on the other hand, under pressure to accelerate science and technology autonomy, semiconductor self-sufficiency in 2025 significantly increased, while expanding international cooperation through multilateral platforms such as the BRICS mechanism.
The deep bonding of the global industrial chain makes “war” an option that does not meet the interests of either party.
As the world's two largest economies, trade involves billions of jobs, and cooperation in the field of science and technology is related to global technological progress.
Even countries that are believed to be "looking forward to a conflict between China and the United States" rely on the development opportunities provided by the Chinese and American markets. Only a few speculators who really want to see the situation get out of control.
The calming of the confrontation in the South China Sea in 2016 has long proved that reason and restraint are the best solutions for the great powers.
Despite the differences, the game continues, but China and the United States are avoiding the escalation of conflict with practical actions.Those bets that "wait for China and the United States to start a war" are ultimately not antagonistic to the trend of the era of peaceful development, antagonistic to the awareness of the common interests of the two countries, and antagonistic to the global expectation of stability and prosperity.