China to Biden Team: It Is \u2018Evil\u2019 To Try and Prevent Any
People\u2019s Right To Pursue a Better Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 3 (EIRNS)\u2014China\u2019s Global Times<\/em> responded strongly to a report issued March 1 by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which accused China of undermining U.S. national interests through coercive and unfair trade practices and promised to use all available tools to pursue \u201cstrengthened enforcement\u201d of China\u2019s existing trade obligations. In other words, as the Global Times<\/em> yesterday took due note, \u201cthe Biden administration has repeatedly said it is reviewing the previous administration\u2019s China policy, but recent messages emanating from Washington suggest that the new administration is keeping the hardline stance against China. The Trump administration\u2019s strategic goal of containing China will be inherited, and only the means of dealing with China may be adjusted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is \u201cunderstandable\u201d and even \u201creasonable\u201d that Washington would seek to maintain its leading position in technologies, and to protect its intellectual property rights, the editors of this official daily correctly assert. China does not protest U.S. policies towards China which aim at promoting U.S. development and increasing U.S. strength, but containment smacks of the \u201cbarbaric geopolitical games\u201d of the 19th and early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are in the 21st century\u2026. Be they Americans, Chinese, Latin Americans or Africans, all people have the right to pursue a better life\u2026. [P]olicies targeted at preventing China\u2019s continuous development and even pushing China\u2019s economy backward are evil. They pose a direct harm to the interests of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, depriving the natural right of the Chinese people to seek a better life\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRestricting China from the perspective of intellectual property rights protection is different from jeopardizing China\u2019s scientific and technological research and development capabilities. The former is part of the intellectual property rights protection regime, while the latter is an evil result of the geopolitical mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChina has 1.4 billion people, more than the West combined, and much more than the population of the major Western countries combined. China\u2019s development is the grandest project of the global human rights cause, and China\u2019s development needs a relatively friendly international environment, including fair conditions for trade and technology exchanges\u2026. It is malicious to take tough measures to suppress the ability of developing countries, and to tell large countries like China that \u2018you deserve to be poor\u2019\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis kind of malicious policy cannot be followed up in a broad and lasting way in the 21st century. We hope the U.S. ruling team can see clearly the general trend, stop talking about human rights when it is trying to deprive the sacred rights of 1.4 billion Chinese people\u2026. At last, we have to say that such evil is doomed to failure in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n