An editorial in China’s Global Times daily today offers useful advice for U.S. policymakers in Washington obsessed with “maintaining a unilateral hegemonic system” by suppressing China and refusing to see the great potential for mutual benefit that cooperation between the two nations would bring. The editorial was provoked by President Joe Biden’s absurd need to proclaim in his Jan. 13 final foreign policy speech that China “will never surpass us,” the same day AI export control measures were announced which harm the US semiconductor industry and the European Union as much as they harm China’s economy.
“This fixation on `benchmarking’ against China and viewing China as its `biggest strategic competitor’ remains Washington’s demon,” wrote Global Times. “Only by bidding farewell to zero-sum games, can Washington get rid of its strategic anxiety…. The development between nations is not a zero-sum game of life and death like in a Roman gladiatorial arena; viewing great power relations through this lens will only lead to confrontation and crises.
“On the contrary, the diversity of cultural backgrounds and development paths provides multiple possibilities for the progress of human civilization,” the daily patiently explained.
