Foreign media pay attention! The rules of the American global trade game: the jungle law of the jungle
CCTV News:On July 25th, CCTV’s "International Critical Review" broadcast an article entitled "The Rules of the Game in Global Trade: The Law of the jungle where the law of the jungle prevails", which was reprinted by many overseas media.
On July 25th and 26th, Facebook account of Radio LCF in France, Panda Radio website in London, UK, RADIOWE website in Italy (twitter), Economic Observer Network in Turkey, Chinese PT portal, Chinese headline APP, Portuguese New Newspaper APP(facebook, twitter), European Union Chinese website, West Africa online website, Africa Times website, Nordic Times website, American Business Daily website, Canadian Business Daily website, Hungarian United Daily News website, Greek China website, etc. On 26th, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao also published this article. The main reports are as follows:
Coudereau, White House economic adviser, said in a recent TV interview that China didn’t want to make a deal at the moment and stopped the game, so the ball was on China’s side. In the interview, Coudereau pushed all the responsibilities to the Chinese side and regarded the trade war as a "game". In the eyes of this senior White House official, the rules of the WTO are formulated by Americans, but anyone who doesn’t like it is someone else who violates the rules.
Under the principle of "American priority", the global multilateral trading system is all backward. The root of this round of trade conflict lies in the fact that the Trump administration thinks that it has suffered losses and its trading partners have taken advantage of Americans. Trump said that on trade issues, the EU is an enemy of the United States. When it comes to trade with China, Trump even used the word "rape" to describe China’s trade surplus with the United States.
The global multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the core is formulated by the western countries headed by the United States, and its "game" rules are naturally in line with the interests of the makers themselves. According to the rules, disputes between WTO members will be handled under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. Now, the United States is deliberately paralyzing the "Supreme Court" of the WTO, that is, the permanent appellate body under the dispute settlement mechanism.
The Appellate Body of WTO has seven permanent judges. Two of them retired completely because they were in their second term and could not be re-elected. The terms of office of three other judges will end at the end of 2017. Because the subsequent judges were blocked from taking office, two of them had to "retire endlessly" and were authorized to continue to deal with unfinished cases in 2018 after their terms of office expired. Therefore, at present, there are only four formal judges left in the appellate body.
The United States is using "lynching" — — Domestic law is handy in punishing trading partners. It seems to hope that the WTO will continue to be paralyzed. Only the dysfunctional WTO can better serve itself, so it is easier to solve the problem by using "lynching".
At present, the "lynching" used by the United States in international trade includes 232 investigations and 301 investigations. The former is to investigate whether the import of specific products threatens the national security of the United States according to Article 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. At the beginning of this year, the United States imposed punitive tariffs on imported steel and aluminum products, and the countries it lynched included Canadian, European Union, Mexican, Indian, Russian and China.
The United States imposes tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States by virtue of Section 301, which is Article 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974. Generally speaking, Section 301 is a legislative authorization clause in American trade law about taking unilateral actions against so-called foreign legislation or administrative acts that violate the agreement and harm American interests.
In this way, the United States is playing "white road" while obstructing the multilateral trading system and preventing the appellate body from starting the selection process for the appointment of new judges in the WTO; On the other hand, it actively uses domestic laws, and it is a "lynching" to suppress competitors and trading partners everywhere. Abandon multilateralism and move towards unilateralism; Give up free trade and move towards protectionism.
The reason why the United States does this is because, as the only superpower in the world, its economic volume and military input exceed that of any trading partner. Therefore, the United States selectively destroyed or even deliberately abandoned the WTO and turned to seek to resolve trade disputes in a bilateral way because it firmly believed that it would "only win and not lose" under bilateral confrontation.
Robert &bull, a famous American commentator on current affairs; Not long ago, Kagan wrote that the United States, as a super-rogue country, used its own strength to do whatever it wanted, trying to make the whole world succumb to its own wishes. As a senior White House official in charge of economic affairs, Coudereau turned a blind eye to what the United States had done and blamed China instead. According to his logic, all the fault lies with China. As long as China meets Washington’s needs according to the "list" of the United States, the problem can be solved immediately. This is a clear interpretation of the hegemonic logic unique to the "super rogue power".
At the just-concluded G20 meeting, Bruno lemerre, the French Finance Minister, made a tough statement on the trade conflict between the US and Europe, saying that the Trump administration’s unilateral tariff policy was based on the "law of the jungle".
As the most powerful country in the world, the United States is also the most flouting country. It can abandon the Iranian nuclear agreement, the Paris climate agreement or UNESCO &hellip at any time. … As a typical "super rogue power", a selfish giant, a bully who obeys the law of the jungle and pursues a zero-sum game, perhaps one day, historians will define this set of rules as "Trumpism".
A number of overseas media forwarded "International Sharp Review" articles:
The facebook account of Radio LCF in France was forwarded on July 25, 2018.
The Panda Radio website in London, UK was forwarded on July 25, 2018.
Italian RADIOWE website (Twitter) forwarded on July 25, 2018.
Forward by Turkish Economic Observer Network on July 25, 2018
Chinese PT Portal forwarded on July 25, 2018
Portuguese news APP(facebook, Twitter) forwarded on July 25 and 26, 2018.
European Union Chinese Network forwarded on July 26, 2018
West Africa online website forwarded on July 26, 2018
Africa Times website forwarded on July 26, 2018
Xizhong.com forwarded on July 25, 2018
Forward by Japan Chinese Business Network on July 26, 2018
Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao was published on July 26, 2018