Pars Today – In response to U.S. sanctions against Chinese companies, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that it has banned exports to dozens of American companies.
China’s Ministry of Commerce, reacting to U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese firms, added 28 American companies to its export control list to “protect national security and interests.” According to Pars Today, companies such as General Dynamics, Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon Missiles & Defense are among those affected. Additionally, China has prohibited the export of dual-use items to these companies.
China’s actions demonstrate its ability to retaliate against U.S. economic and technological pressures, even as Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, has threatened to impose heavy tariffs on goods imported from China and several other countries. It appears that China is preparing for any potential shifts in Beijing-Washington relations following Trump’s entry into the White House on January 20.
During his first term, Trump intensified a trade war with China by imposing heavy tariffs on Chinese imports and remains determined to continue this approach. While Trump claims that increasing tariffs and restricting technological cooperation with China is aimed at protecting American businesses and industries, it is clear that the U.S. is concerned about losing its global hegemony as China’s economic and trade power grows.
In fact, Washington’s goal is to undermine or weaken the power of the global East-South axis, targeting its three key powers: Iran, Russia, and China. Escalating war and unrest in West Asia, fueling the conflict in Ukraine, and intensifying the trade war with China are among the strategies and key tactics the U.S. employs to counter the rising power of the Global South, which is concentrated in the BRICS alliance.
Trump’s recent reaction to BRICS’ successes, particularly in trade and finance, shows that the U.S. is far from indifferent to BRICS’ activities, as it pretends to be, but is deeply concerned. Therefore, China’s move to impose export controls and ban dual-use items to American companies reflects the Global South’s growing power in the face of increasing economic, military, and security pressures from Washington.
Similarly, the other two pillars of the Global South—Iran and Russia—have successfully neutralized many of the White House’s conspiracies and political, economic, military, and security pressures in West Asia and Ukraine.
Thus, one of Trump’s key missions in the White House is to deliver comprehensive blows to Beijing to create a so-called security margin for the U.S. against China’s rapidly advancing economic and trade power. However, given the transcendence of technology beyond the exclusive borders of Western powers and the rise of attractive global markets, it is difficult to imagine that the U.S. can confine China within its borders through tariff pressures.
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