Indiscriminate sanctions： harmful, sinister and poisonous measures against globalization.
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Since the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and the West have launched several rounds of indiscriminate sanctions involving politics, finance, trade, science and technology, culture and other fields, which are all-round, high-intensity and complicated in frequency, which is unprecedented. In the meantime, while handing knives, the United States earned tickets, at the expense of the interests of many countries in the world and endangering the people’s livelihood in many countries, while American interest groups took advantage of the fishermen.
Regardless of Ukraine’s life and death, the United States continued to fuel the fire, fearing that the conflict would stop, and adopted a combination of one stone and many birds: it imposed indiscriminate sanctions on Russia with no bottom line, no ethics, no restraint and no contractual spirit, allowing American oil and gas to occupy the European market instead of Russian oil and gas, allowing Europe to take in Ukrainian refugees, thus further kidnapping Europe, so that NATO, the "abandoned child" after the end of the Cold War, finally had a chance to brush its sense of existence. In turn, it has become the "white glove" for the long arm of the United States to govern Europe and contain Russia, and to cooperate with the US dollar to raise interest rates to rush international capital to the United States, so as to alleviate the continuous rise of US inflation and national debt, and at the same time make the US military-industrial complex earn a lot of money. All these "combination punches" show that the United States is the black hand behind the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, with only one purpose, that is, to maintain the world hegemony of the United States and continue its life for hegemonism and imperialism. The indiscriminate sanctions imposed by the United States for profit have disrupted the global energy, food and financial order, which is an extreme manifestation of anti-globalization. Only the United States has benefited, but the countries and people in the world have suffered.
It can be asserted that the indiscriminate sanctions initiated by the United States and the West against Russia are a damaging, insidious and poisonous move against globalization. Its damage is harming the interests of all parties outside the United States; Its yin is to use the dominance of globalization to destroy globalization, reverse globalization and maintain hegemony; Its poison is in an attempt to continue the conflict between Russia and Ukraine through NATO’s five eastward expansions, pushing Russia into a desperate situation.
The improper use of the leading power of globalization leads to anti-globalization.
Globalization is an irreversible trend in today’s world. Globalization goes hand in hand with industrialization and urbanization, promoting the global layout of supply chain, industrial chain, value chain and innovation chain, promoting the formation of world city networks such as global cities, national cities and general towns, promoting the prosperity of a new world economic system composed of advanced manufacturing industries and high-end service industries with informationization, networking and intelligence, and bringing globalization dividends to countries and people all over the world; Looking ahead, the trend of globalization is still irresistible.
It is a just, correct and just way to conform to the trend of globalization and create and share the global dividend. This practice upholds the concept of a community of human destiny, strives to build a new global governance system, promotes the benign development of globalization, and enables all countries and people in the world to create and share the dividend of globalization.
Regrettably, countries that are in the leading position of globalization in today’s world have always cherished their own priority concepts. The United States does not proceed from the perspective that all countries and people in the world create and share the global dividend, but from the perspective of maximizing its own interests, and does not hesitate to use means to hinder globalization. The most commonly used is sanctions, and the most extreme is indiscriminate sanctions. In a way that harms globalization, it hinders the maximization of the creation of global dividends, while taking all the global dividends created by all countries in the world, and ultimately damages the sharing of global dividends by all countries in the world.
The predatory "vampire" approach will hinder globalization
The essence of globalization is the globalization of social division of labor, that is, the social division of labor crosses national boundaries, and arranges the supply end, industry end, value end and innovation end in different countries, and then connects these "ends" to form a "chain", thus forming a global supply chain, industrial chain, value chain and innovation chain. The premise of the smooth operation of the "chain" is to build channels connecting all parts of the world (such as goods, money, information, technology, people and other mobile channels), realize interconnection, and then form a "network"
The carriers of globalization are primary products and commodities, money and finance, information, science and technology, and personnel, aiming at realizing all-round and unimpeded communication, exchange and optimal allocation among countries, and creating a global dividend far higher than the sum of domestic dividends of all countries in the world. The order of globalization makes the above-mentioned channels run safely and unimpeded. To this end, the international community has jointly established world organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and their operating mechanisms, which constitute a global governance system. All this is for the purpose that all countries in the world participating in globalization jointly create and share the global dividend.
In the natural historical process of globalization, there are many key links, such as terminals, chains, channels, carriers and systems. These key links can not only ensure but also prevent the continuous operation, smooth flow, interlocking and orderly globalization, forming a series of "gates" and "valves" that can be opened or closed. But when to turn it on and off, and how big the switch is, often depends on who is in charge of the dominant power of globalization, and may even be used as an "anti-globalization weapon" by it, for example, US dollars, oil and gas, agricultural products, settlement channels (such as SWIFT) and so on.
The United States adheres to its own priority dictatorship, monopolization and exclusive enjoyment, and implements long-arm jurisdiction and indiscriminate sanctions all over the world without a bottom line, ethics and restraint, which can only curb the creation of globalization dividends. This is a "vampire-like" anti-globalization and anti-globalization practice that takes advantage of plunder and violates justice, and is the essential manifestation of hegemonism and imperialism.
After the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and the West imposed a series of "unconventional" and "epic-level" sanctions on Russia, the scope and intensity of which were far greater than before, which not only brought various livelihood problems to Russia but also to many countries unrelated to the conflict and their people, blocked the natural and historical process of globalization, destroyed the normal globalization order, and made the globalization dividend drop sharply.
A few days ago, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin revealed that some American media called the United States the only "sanctions superpower" in the world, which hit the nail on the head. He Yafei, former vice minister of foreign affairs, pointed out: "After the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and western countries imposed unprecedented severe sanctions on Russia in breadth and depth, and Russia also took countermeasures. The sanctions and anti-sanctions between the United States, the West and Russia are double-edged swords in the game of big powers, and their impact on US-Russia relations, international structure, world economy and finance, and global governance system is incalculable. "
Indiscriminate sanctions imposed by the United States are harmful, insidious and poisonous moves against globalization. Their root cause is hegemonism and their essence is imperialism. Opposing hegemonism is a necessary measure to safeguard the peaceful development of today’s world, deter or even put an end to the countercurrent of globalization, and promote the benign development of globalization.
(Author: Li Zhengtu, a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and vice president of China Political Economy Association)