Several issues that need to be further clarified about Sino-US trade frictions
4.Will it be a solution by pursuing technological hegemony?
Science and technology are the crystallization of human civilization and the commonwealth of human society. However, some Americans will prefer to pursue a technological monopoly. To maintain its hegemonic position in the economic and technological fields, the US government has long imposed high-tech export controls on China.
During the trade friction, the US government has abused the state power to block Chinese tech companies on the grounds of national security, suppress the development of China's high-tech industries and squeeze China's high-tech products market. This attempt at technological hegemony will in no way succeed.
Science and technology are primary productive forces. The scientific and technological strength largely determines the economic strength and international competitiveness of a country, the changes in the balance of political and economic power in the world and the future and destiny of all nations. As science and technology plays such an important role, the hegemonic thinking, monopoly practices and double standards of some people in the US have been vividly demonstrated in the field.
In an essay, geopolitical expert Adam Garrie portrays the mentality of some Americans. Pressing on with such a zero-sum mentality, China is criticized when it allegedly innovates too little while China is equally criticized and subjected to protectionist tariffs when it innovates too much. This attitude of hypocrisy on the part of the US belies a narrow and selfish mentality that does not allow for the phenomenon of shared success on the win-win model.
Some Americans' purpose is nothing more than to permanently exclude China from the forefront of technological innovation and let China accept the exploitation of US monopolistic capital.
However, this is only the wishful thinking of hegemonists. In the era of economic globalization, countries worldwide have become more interconnected and interdependent in terms of technological activities. The advancement of science and technology has largely become the result of the participation of all nations. Especially buoyed by rapid development of information network technology, the exchange and communication of science and technology have reached an unprecedented level in terms of the scope, speed and scale.
As economic globalization has picked up speed, the spread of science and technology has gradually intensified. As countries worldwide have conducted frequent exchange in the field of technology, transnational joint research has become common today, and the global application of technological innovation will be the future.
Promoting technological innovation and advancement is the legitimate pursuit of every country. Enhanced cooperation and interactions in technologies is a key driving force for the advancement of human society.
In order to better meet people's growing needs for a better life and benefit people at home and abroad, more efforts are needed to make a big push to promote technological innovation and advancement, enhance technological cooperation and oppose technological hegemony. This is our mission and our right.
Through years of rigorous efforts, marked progress has been made in the technological development of China, which has attracted the attention of the international community. These technological achievements are neither "stolen" nor obtained via "forced technology transfer". Instead, the achievement is the result of self-reliance and hard work of thousands of technologists as well as the international technological cooperation based on mutual benefits.
China's vibrant technological innovation and world-renowned achievements show the use of despicable means to suppress the so-called "competitors" does not guarantee its technological leadership in the globe.
