The United States has unilaterally announced that the deadline for its withdrawal from Afghanistan will be postponed from May 1 to September 11, of course, many uncertainties remain. In addition, a joint statement has come out after the meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan, which accused China of its territorial and internal affairs. It can be seen that the US government is very “concerned” about other countries’ internal affairs and frequently adopts political intimidation, economic sanctions, military threats and even direct interference against countries that do not conform to its wishes. The United States is more and more like an empire coming from the Middle Ages, hoping that it would be exclusive in international community.
When the leaders of the United States and Japan met bilaterally, why did they have to gossip about China’s internal affairs? This is not in line with the minimum of interpersonal politeness. The United States and Japan preach “freedom and opening up”, but in fact, they engage in “small circles” and incite group confrontation. This is totally against the trend of the times and runs counter to the common expectations of the region and the vast majority of countries in the world for peace, development and cooperation. In the face of a big country like China, the United States naturally does not dare to use force easily. It is an inevitable choice for the United States to engage in political and economic blockade through slander and rumor.
For other small and weak countries, the United States is not so polite. According to incomplete statistics, 248 armed conflicts occurred in 153 regions of the world from the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, of which 201 were initiated by the United States, accounting for about 81%. The United States is so found of military works. Take the Afghan war as an example, the United States has paid trillions of dollars and more than 20000 U.S. soldiers’ casualties in the 20-year war, but has the United States won? At least for the Afghan people, it is a great humanitarian disaster, and it is impossible to count how many people have been killed or hurt there, how many families are displaced, and how many valuable opportunities for economic development Afghanistan has lost.
Peace and development are the big tide of the world today. Economic globalization is an irreversible trend. Global cooperation is an inevitable choice to deal with climate change and epidemic diseases. There is no way out to change another country through brute force. The Afghan people will not agree, nor will the Chinese people, nor even the American people. The United States had better give up its imperial dream and be the real United States of America without racial discrimination and oppression.
(Xi Meng, Senior Researcher, Research Center for the Belt and Road of Lanzhou University)
