The United States, the world's largest economy, took more than 600 discriminatory trade measures against other countries from 2008 to 2016, and more than 100 in 2019 alone. Under the "leadership" of the United States, according to the Global Trade Alert database, the number of discriminatory trade measures implemented by countries increased by 80 percent in 2019 compared with 2014, and China was the country most hurt by trade protection measures in the world. Under the influence of trade protectionism, global trade has fallen to a new low in nearly 10 years.
Adopt Rule Revisionism and Safeguard Rights through Institutions
In December 1997, the participating countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Kyoto Protocol. In March 2001, the bush administration to "reduce greenhouse gas emissions will affect the U.S. economy development" and "developing countries should also bear the obligations and curbing greenhouse gas reductions in carbon emissions" as an excuse to completely defied international society against refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol, which makes the United States as the world the first out of the country of the Kyoto protocol.
In June 2017, the United States again pulled out of the Paris Agreement to combat global climate change. In the field of economy and trade, in order to maintain their dominant position in the field of trade, on November 14, 2009, the Obama administration has officially announced that the United States will be involved in the trans-pacific partnership (TPP) negotiations, emphasize to set in the 21st century trade agreement beacon mulatto rules, trying to "start", bypass or replace the world trade organization (WTO) rules, Build a capital operation system that transcends national sovereignty.
President Obama was blunt: "The United States cannot let countries like China write the rules of global trade." Although the Trump administration has announced the withdrawal of the United States from TPP after taking office, the policy of abandoning multilateralism and emphasizing "America first" still shows that the United States' utilitarian attitude toward international rules will not change.
Lurch toward Isolationism and Shirk International Responsibilities
In recent years, isolationism has been on the rise again in the United States. In Foreign Policy Begins at Home: Getting America Right at Home, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, makes a systematic case for reducing America's international obligations, abandoning its role as "world policeman" and focusing on economic and social problems at home. Since taking office, Trump has put up a wall on the US-Mexico border, issued a "ban on travel to Mexico", and withdrawn from the Paris Agreement on climate change, all showing the isolationist tendencies of the new US administration.
Post time: Dec-05-2022