Social Comment: The ipf eight characters did not skim, Washington wanted to put it with teeth

After a long period of public opinion and pavement, the first face -to -face ministerial meeting of the "Indo -Pacific Economic Framework" (IPEF) led by the United States and participating in a total of 14 countries was held in Los Angeles from 8th to 9th. Although Washington officials claim that this is not required to be "two -choice" between China and the United States, this is more like to soothe people's hearts and inadequate. In the title, there are even American public opinion that can't wait to cheer. This is "the best way to fight against China in the Indo -Pacific region."

In May this year, US President Biden announced the start of IPEF during his visit to Japan. Washington boasted that IPEF "beyond the traditional trade agreement" and will "formulate positive economic agenda" in the region, but this is just a guise to cover up the "innate shortcomings" of IPEF. Its "non -tradition" is that it does not include tariff reduction and market access arrangements, which makes it difficult for member states Plate, which makes IPEF lack of legal binding.

More importantly, although IPEF has painted "economic cooperation" paint, the background color is the "political framework" that blocked China. The real purpose of Washington is to create a small circle of supply chain and industrial chain in the Asia -Pacific region. This obviously damages the vital interests of the Asia -Pacific countries, and most countries worry and oppose this. At the same time, some member states and governments have never been able to explain the necessity of participating in IPEFs in China. They are more involved in the negotiations with a mentality of doubts, and some are even scared by the United States.

Washington has designed the "four pillars" for IPEF: trade, labor and digital standards; clean energy and decarbon; supply chain elasticity; and taxation and anti -corruption work. But it is basically determined that Washington will not provide any benefit to the participants. According to past experience, Washington actually does more likely to ask for it. While encouraging other countries and the Chinese industrial chain to "decoupling", it also attempts to quietly cultivate these countries into the US economy. In response to China, it is a conspiracy to create more economical and geopolitical servants. It is a conspiracy of Washington. This should cause high degree of vigilance in the Asia -Pacific countries.

It is not a coincidence that the members of the IPEF and the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) this year have a high degree of coincidence. Among the 15 member states of RCEP, 11 countries participated in IPEF. Only China, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar were not among them. In the middle of IPEF, except the United States, India, and Fiji, the remaining 11 countries were both As a member country of RCEP. The United States wants to use IPEF to dig the wall of RCEP to hollow out this regional free trade agreement with China, but compared with the solid RCEP that promotes the regional economy integration, IPEF is just a large empty shell of paper, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it, participating in it The country has their own interests, and it is impossible to listen to the United States like Japan.

Most participating countries hope to get the promise of the U.S. open market through IPEF negotiations, but Washington propaganda is that the IPEF negotiations will bring benefits to American workers and SMEs. The interests of them are misplaced, and Washington has no intention of making up. In addition, IPEF is also facing a huge uncertainty, which is only promoted by the presidential administrative order. When the U.S. government is re -elected, the agreement may be overturned at any time. It is generally expected that once the rotation of political parties and the Republican Party came to power, it will immediately modify the relevant content of "fair trade", "digital economy", and "clean energy", which will mean that the so -called "four pillars" of IPEF is very It may collapse three overnight.

People have remembered TPP so far, and even many people still use TPP to target IPEF. In 2016, Washington took out a lot of resources to create TPP to block China. Now 6 years have passed, China and the international community including the United States are more deeply blended. Washington is still obsessed with protectionism and unilateralism. The world is extorted. When the IPEF character was not as good as it was, someone in the United States was anxious to put it with teeth, claiming that "IPEF without teeth is harmful to the United States." Such camps against thinking and geopolitical evils have been destined to end the final outcome of IPEF.

Although the iPef's table was up, the show didn't know how to sing. In Washington, which only cares about its own hegemony and is not in the interests of the interests of different countries, this excitement will only be a moment.

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