Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 7 th: The United States has repeatedly "banned" China enterprises. What about "fair trade"?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Yu Jiaxin and Wang Pan
Since January this year, China enterprises such as Huawei and Ali have suffered setbacks in expanding the US market, and they have been turned away by the US on the grounds of "national security". In particular, Huawei’s mobile phone products have repeatedly been "blocked" by US telecom operators.
On the one hand, the China market welcomes the sales of Apple mobile phones in China, while on the other hand, the US market prohibits Huawei mobile phones from selling in the United States; The same is true for selling mobile phones. One is that Apple mobile phones equipped with "American Core" can enter thousands of households in China, and the other is that Huawei mobile phones equipped with "Chinese Core" can’t cross the US. The contrast between the two is great, and the discerning person can know at a glance who is setting up trade barriers.
It is understandable to say that the United States prohibits its government departments from purchasing China’s technological products for security reasons, but this time it is preventing China’s mobile phones from entering the American private market. That is to say, the American government, which has always been famous for its free competition market economy, is using its "visible hand" to prevent foreign products from entering its own market. The practice of the United States sends a signal to the outside world that for the benefit of a few people, the principles of market economy and consumers’ right to know and choose can all be ignored.
US President Trump has repeatedly emphasized "fair trade". From these cases, we can see that American-style "fair trade" is at the expense of the fairness of other countries. On the one hand, China has opened its doors to trade and investment in the United States, and American products such as Apple, Cisco and Microsoft have been selling well in China for many years, and China has become more and more open to American financial and service industries; On the other hand, China Huawei’s mobile phone entered the American market, and Ant Financial’s acquisition of American enterprises was repeatedly blocked. How can this kind of "fair trade" that hangs domestic interests above international rules stand?
It should be noted that behind the American blockade of products and enterprises in China is the alert to the rapid development of China and the worry about the rapid progress of science and technology in China. At the previous Davos Forum, the US Secretary of Commerce also expressed the concern that China’s high technology poses a challenge to the United States. But in fact, there is still a big gap between China’s innovation ability and that of developed countries.
Protectionism can’t really lock in competitors, but it will tie your hands and feet. In the era of economic globalization, there is no isolated island. The strengthening of China’s brand strength and the expansion of its reputation have benefited from the continuous promotion of reform and opening up in the past 40 years, and it has grown stronger in the process of opening up.
Politicizing China-US economic and trade issues will ultimately only harm the interests of enterprises and consumers in both countries. Only by abandoning the cold war mentality and constantly expanding the cake of common interests can we promote the development of Sino-US economic and trade relations in the right direction.