Navarro’s “seven deadly sins” of China reveal malicious intentions
By Zhong Sheng
Some politicians
in the U.S. are really doing all they can to distort facts and attack China.
Even the “seven deadly sins” in Christian teaching were recently applied by White
House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro to criticize China.
He said China
must "stop stealing our intellectual property, stop forcing technology
transfers, stop hacking our computers, stop dumping into our markets and
putting our companies out of business, stop state-owned enterprises from heavy
subsidies, stop the fentanyl, stop the currency manipulation" before the
trade war comes to an end.
A Chinese saying
goes that if you want to condemn somebody, you can always trump up a charge. Navarro’s
remarks malicious fully exposed his malicious intentions.
Navarro and his
like, labeling China with these tags, are indeed attracting “believers” of their
manipulated stories about China, in an attempt to coerce the country into
making a concession.
They turn a
blind eye to objective facts and never find their own problems. Instead, they duck
responsibilities and frame other countries. Their tricks have long become a laughingstock
of the international community and are scorned by the world.
Calling black
white, these ridiculous arguments will never be supported no matter how they
are disguised.
China has always
adhered to equal consultation, mutual benefit and win-win results in
international economic and trade exchanges and has become a source of power for
the world economy, which is a fact that it obvious to all.
The country has moved
up in the ranking of the Global Innovation Index for years. In 2018, it paid $8.64
billion in licensing fees for intellectual property rights to the U.S. The
variety of fentanyl-related substances controlled by China outnumbered that of
the U.S, and China also implemented stricter control over the drug than the U.S
did.
However, the U.S.
has unilaterally allowed the federal and local governments to provide
substantial subsidies, bailouts, and concessional loans to relevant industries
and enterprises. It has long engaged in large-scale and organized online scams
and monitoring activities. These facts have shown clearly the right and wrong.
Navarro, a
leading hawk as described by the U.S. media, always makes irresponsible and
inflammatory remarks and fabricates extreme viewpoints.
Taking China as
an “imaginary enemy”, he sticks to the out-dated Cold War mentality.
His book Death
by China “is drowned out by xenophobic hysteria and exaggerations so rampant it
becomes impossible to tell light from heat,” and is filled with inflammatory
sentences and one-sided views, as U.S. media described.
Navarro’s extreme
economic views are widely considered politicized and full of provocative political
slogans. He promotes high tariffs on imported products and encourages consumers
to change their shopping habits, arguing that this would eliminate the huge
U.S. trade deficit.
Economist William
Gale from the Brookings Institution said it bluntly that this absurd deduction
was unable to become a reality.
In addition, Daniel
Ikenson, head of trade policy research at the Cato Institute, pointed out that
Navarro’s view of trade is “a dangerous and misleading global zero-sum
perspective with no approval of any economist.”
The remarks and practices
of Navarro and his like are dangerous. Completely following the political
needs, they defamed others wantonly, caused trouble for no reason, created confrontation
and instigated hatred.
Yet they hardly
realized that while hurting others, they also seriously harmed the U.S. economy
and damaged the country’s reputation and credibility.
A report recently
issued by Goldman Sachs Group pointed out that the cost of tariffs imposed by
President Donald Trump last year against Chinese goods has fallen “entirely” on
American businesses and households, with a greater impact on consumer prices
than previously expected.
According to a
recent survey released by British media, economists believe that the
possibility of the U.S. economy slipping into a recession in the next two years
has increased significantly to 45%.
Stephen Roach, a
senior research fellow at Yale University, pointed out that Navarro’s “Death by
China” is absurd and might be fatal for America.
More and more
people begin to remain vigilant against the remarks and practices of Navarro
and his like. Some media even called their extreme anti-globalization thinking
a virus.
There is no
doubt that the virus, if not eliminated, will cause endless harm. The urgent need
now is to recognize the hazards and never let the virus ravage and damage the global
economy.
Navarro’s “seven deadly sins” of China reveal malicious intentions
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