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We have discussed U.S.-China Relationship for some time.  In the past, that was under the assumption that being the world’s two most powerful countries, if the two countries can work cooperatively to address the most critically important issues facing the world, then that would create the most benefits for the world, and at the same time, that would also benefit both the U.S. and China.  It seems to be clearly the most winning strategy.  But why it has not happened?

I have raised this comment/question for a long time.  It finally dawned on me why it has not happened.  The reason is because the U.S. wants a unipolar world with the U.S. being the center of that unipolar world, and the U.S. sees that China is the main challenger keeping the world from changing from a unipolar world to a multipolar world.  Instead of looking at the world to see what is good for the world, the U.S. sees what is good for the U.S. even it is not achievable.

Now with this new perspective, we can understand why the U.S. is adopting that policy, i.e., a policy that is not good for the world.  Instead of living together to try to improve the world, why would the U.S. try to create confrontations and adopt a foreign policy toward China that is so antagonistic that can easily escalate into wars? If U.S. and China work together to address the world’s major problems, then the U.S. would not be able to control the world and dictate their so-called rule-based order for the world to follow. Instead of creating a world with multi-modality, the U.S. wants to create a single modality world with the U.S. in the center and in control of that modality.  

This answers a lot of questions, such as the U.S.’s position toward Taiwan, and why the U.S. wants to turn back the clock more than half a century.  It also answers the question why the U.S. government is adopting such a demonic eye toward its American citizens who are Chinese Americans who also want the best for the U.S.  It also helps to understand the recent U.S. government’s policy toward companies like TikTok. Read More »

The U.S. and China have the largest economies in the world.  They also are the most influential countries and have the most powerful militaries in the world.  Therefore, they are the most important countries to help the world to solve, or at least reduce, the many large and critical problems facing humanity, in areas such as food, health, education, jobs, climate change, war and peace, and disarmament. The U.S. and China should be cooperating to address these problems, and should avoid creating tension and fabricating charges and mass media propaganda toward the other.

This chapter will discuss several important “issues” between the U.S. and China.  We will recall and analyze history and see what history has to say about these issues.