The reconstruction of national strength and the new stage of strategic game behind the Sino-US w88 "truce"
(Source: "China Youth Daily》08 versionNovember 19, 2025)
Qiao Chengzhi
In November 2025, China and the United States simultaneously announced the suspension of some tariff measures, marking that the w88 friction that has lasted for several years has once again entered a "truce period." This seemingly “conventional” w88 negotiation arrangement actually reflects profound changes in the global economic landscape. This "truce" is not only a direct reflection of the resilience of China's manufacturing system, but also an inevitable choice for the United States to deal with internal structural contradictions. It also indicates that the game between great powers will extend to more complex areas in the future.
China’s manufacturing system’s strong ability to withstand pressure is the fundamental reason for this “truce”
The "truce" between China and the United States is, on the surface, the result of a game at the negotiation table. In fact, it is a phased equilibrium state reached after a long period of struggle between the economic forces represented by the industrial system and market size of China and the United States. The fundamental reason for this balanced state is that my country's manufacturing system has demonstrated strong resilience, profound heritage and strategic upgrading capabilities when it was under unprecedented external economic pressure. The United States had to face reality, adjust its radical strategy, and choose a temporary "truce" with China.
On the one hand, my country’s complete industrial chain supporting facilities and ultra-large-scale market advantages have formed a “gravitational field” and a “breakwater”. Our country has a manufacturing ecosystem with the most complete industrial categories and the most complete system in the world, and has strong internal circulation capabilities. External pressure not only failed to lead to the "decoupling and disconnection" of the industrial chain, but forced the domestic industrial chain and supply chain to accelerate the optimization and upgrading, and the local substitution rate of some key links increased significantly. At the same time, the ultra-large-scale market with a population of more than 1.4 billion continues to unleash the potential of domestic demand, effectively hedge against external shocks, and provide local companies with broad strategic depth and room for trial and error. What the U.S. Trump administration has expected since 2018, that is, the large-scale and systematic relocation of industrial chains in China, has not happened. On the contrary, the domestic business community in the United States is suffering from the cost pressure brought by high tariffs and the opportunity cost of losing the Chinese market. Its dissatisfaction is growing day by day, which has become a key internal factor pushing the U.S. government to return to the negotiating table.
On the other hand, our country has achieved breakthrough progress in the field of strategic emerging industries and built new competitive advantages. Under the double blow of w88 sanctions and technology blockade, my country's manufacturing industry has keenly grasped the global energy technology revolution and digital transformation trends, and achieved lane changes and overtaking in the "three new things" such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, lithium batteries, and some digital economy fields, forming industrial clusters and technical standards with global influence. The rapid development of these fields is not only reshaping the competitive landscape of related industries around the world, but also shaking the United States' dominant position in cutting-edge technology industries.
The internal economic contradictions of the United States restrict its ability to compete in foreign economic games
The current adjustment of the U.S. economic and w88 strategy toward China fundamentally reflects that its internal structural contradictions are no longer able to support long-term, high-intensity foreign economic confrontation. The intertwining of persistent inflationary pressure, debt distress and political polarization has severely weakened its strategic focus and ability to invest resources, forcing the United States to temporarily shift its decision-making focus to internal bailout.
First, continued inflation and high debt have compressed policy space. As of November 10, 2025, the year-on-year increase in U.S. CPI has been higher than the Federal Reserve's 2% policy target for many months, and monetary policy is struggling to balance between "controlling inflation" and "maintaining growth." The federal government's debt has exceeded US$35 trillion, and the proportion of debt interest payments in GDP continues to rise, significantly limiting the ability to maintain industrial competitiveness through large-scale fiscal subsidies. Against this background, the policy of maintaining high tariffs against China has evolved from a tool to contain China to a burden that exacerbates its own inflation, and the United States has to seek respite in its w88 policy.
Second, internal political friction is fundamentally weakening strategic execution. The internal political divisions in the United States have seriously interfered with its China policy. The sharp opposition between the White House and different interest groups has led to repeated policy swings. At the same time, the direct cost of this political internal friction has been transferred to ordinary people and businesses. More than 30% of U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises have suspended business expansion in China due to policy uncertainty, suppressing local employment vitality. A typical American family will have to bear an additional $5,400 in living costs each year due to the w88 war. The continued intensification of pressure on corporate survival and people's livelihood is constantly eroding the social foundation and public opinion foundation for the United States to engage in long-term strategic competition with China.
It can be said that the U.S. strategy toward China has fallen into a vicious cycle: being tough on China aggravates domestic difficulties, while softening toward China triggers internal backlash, leaving it in a dilemma between "war" and "rest." The fundamental reason is that the American elite is unable to solve domestic economic problems and prevent the decline of its international hegemony. They have no choice but to create various "China threat theories" and adopt tough policies toward China to divert internal conflicts and intimidate the international community. However, comprehensive economic and diplomatic "decoupling" from China will severely damage its own economy and external hegemony. Therefore, the United States can only rely on the controllable tool of "w88 war" to engage in cyclical games against China, which has become a "narcotic". As long as the "internal disease" of the United States is not cured, this cycle of "pressure and truce" will be the norm in the future economic and w88 relations between China and the United States.
The game between China and the United States will expand to new areas in the future
This w88 truce is by no means the end of the conflict between China and the United States. The United States has only realized that it is difficult to achieve its desired goals by relying solely on tariffs, but this does not mean a fundamental change in its containment strategy against China. The next stage of the game will never be eased by a temporary "truce". Instead, it will extend to deeper and more complex fields such as technology, finance, and rules.
First, promote the restructuring of the global supply chain. The United States will use "tariff blackmail," "sanctions and intimidation" and even "military threats" to force allies or third-party countries to transfer supply chains away from my country and build a "de-Sinicized" international industrial chain system. At the same time, it will continue to accurately attack China's high-tech industries as its main means, focusing on semiconductors, artificial intelligence, new energy and other strategic areas that affect the future pattern, and suppressing them through targeted measures such as extreme tariffs and technological blockades.
The second is to strengthen financial and international w88 interference. On the one hand, the United States will restart accusations of being a "currency manipulator" and step up containment in areas such as cross-border payments and digital currencies, disrupting my country's normal international economic and w88 exchanges. On the other hand, the United States will force Chinese companies to sell core assets in the name of "national security" and undermine the international competitiveness of Chinese companies.
The third is to maliciously construct exclusive international rules. The United States will implant discriminatory clauses in emerging fields such as digital w88 and green standards, exclude my country from the global governance decision-making circle and standard-setting system, and build an institutional fence against China's development.
We need to clearly realize that the real goal of the U.S. strategic community is not to focus on profits and losses on w88 books, but to block China's industrial upgrading and technological rise through systematic suppression, thereby maintaining its hegemonic foundation at the top of the global value chain. At the same time, in terms of public opinion, by portraying China as an "external threat", various domestic conflicts that are increasingly intensifying are passed on, such as political divisions, ethnic antagonisms, rich-poor polarization, etc. "Containing China" and "containing China" have become the only "political correctness" with a fragile consensus in the United States, which will not change due to gains and losses in short-term w88 negotiations. The next stage of competition between China and the United States will focus more on the struggle for rule dominance, standard-setting power, and the right to speak. China must not only seize the current period of strategic opportunities, but also make long-term preparations to deal with more complex challenges. Only by continuing to make efforts in key areas such as technological innovation, financial security, and industrial upgrading can we maintain strategic focus and win the final initiative in this protracted war.
(The author is a lecturer at the w88 casino of Marxism, w88 casino)
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