[Circle depth] What tricks did the United States use to cut the world economy "leek"?

[Global Times reporter Xing Xiaojing Liu Xin Wan Hengyi] Editor's words: The U.S. military not only helps the Syrian "collect wheat", but also help them "oil transportation". The Syrian News Agency website once again broke the news on July 23 that the U.S. occupation forces will "stolen" dozens of vehicles Syrian oil to Iraq. From the perspective of the Syrian, this is a grabbing, but American politicians say this is called "paid service." There are many similar "services" worldwide, such as building a "food empire", squeezing other countries through the advantages of the industrial chain, engaging in the US dollar hegemony, and fighting trade war. In today's world, the United States "harvested" the means of wealth of other countries, especially developing countries, is more "diverse" and "clever", but when there is a conflict between interests, the United States never feel soft.

Petroleum is the paid of "military investment" in the United States?

Syrrut News Agency quoted local sources on July 23 that local sources said that a team of trucks composed of 35 trucks full of Syrian oil went to Iraq through the Alpartamian (sound) transit point. The transit point was the United States two years ago. To facilitate the establishment of oil. In 2015, the United States was garristed in the northeast of the Syria, and since then, it has continued to steal Syrian oil. In July this year, Syria reported at least three such incidents. Data show that in 2021, the daily output of oil was about 85,900 barrels, of which 70,000 barrels were taken away by the United States and its support of Syrian opposition armed forces, and less than 16,000 barrels were left for the domestic market.

In addition to oil, the U.S. military has continuously "harvested" Syrian wheat. At present, 90 % of Syria lives below the poverty line, and more than half of the population cannot be guaranteed. Against this background, the bold stolen behavior in the United States caused strong indignation of Syrian officials and the public. The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tu Ma rebuked the behavior of the United States and its allies "like a pirate."

The town of Al-QAHTANIYAH, northeastern Syria, drove through a oil field in the local countryside. Source: Visual China

Regarding the real purpose of interfering with Middle East affairs, in 2019, the then President Trump, then the United States, said very clearly. At that time, he decided to withdraw from US military forces from the Syrian territory occupied by Kurds, but plans to leave hundreds of soldiers because "there is oil there." According to the Washington Post, Trump believes that oil is a paid of "military investment" in the United States in the Middle East, and the United States has obtained "bright light".

In the Middle East, the United States values ​​petroleum; in the Americas, the United States has land, agricultural products, and even gold. During the founding of the People's Republic of China and expansion, the United States was well known from the American Indians and Mexico. The New York Times recently posted a post to disclose how the United States regards Haiti as a "gold mine" and "withdrawal machine". The report said that in 1914, members of the US Marine Corps entered the National Bank of Haiti and took away gold worth $ 500,000. "Within a few days, these gold entered the insurance library of a bank in Wall Street." For a long time, the United States has been the dominant force of Haiti. The force threatened the dismissal of the parliament, killed thousands of local people, and transferred a large part of the income of Haiti to the banker of New York.

"Food Imperialism" brings unbearable emphasis on Latin America

In addition to direct plundering resources, the United States has also promoted the "food imperialism" in Latin America, affecting the agricultural development of Latin American countries, and bringing them difficulty to them. The author of "Super Imperialism -the Source and Basic of the US Financial Hegemony", the author of the book, Hedson, an American economist, said in an interview with the "gray zone" of the news website that the United States manipulated the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank loan. Let some Latin American countries grow more people in the United States that cannot be planted in the United States, and at the same time allow these countries to rely on US grain exports and develop industries that will not compete with the United States. In this cycle, the agricultural production structure of Latin American countries has become more single, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs in industrial development.

In the process, the United States plundered the natural resources of Latin American countries through some private companies and controlled its economic life. The most typical of which was the United States United Fruit Corporation (UFC). In 1899, UFC cleverly won in Latin America, turning Guatemala, Honduras and other countries into a so -called "Banana Republic" -The developing countries that rely on a single economy such as bananas. Data show that in the 1930s, UFC controlled 42%of Guatemala's land, not only monopolizing the production and exports of Guatemara Banana, but also controlled the country's railway and port transportation channels.

Sun Yanfeng, deputy director of the Latin America Institute of the Chinese Institute of Modern International Relations, told the Global Times reporter that the economic policy implemented by the United States in Latin America has solved its problems in the economic structure, but has led to the restrictions on the agriculture and industrial development of Latin America. Essence Relying on a single tropical crop, some Latin American countries cannot develop industry independently. Latin America's own level of industrialization is relatively low, especially in the nearly 30 years of new liberal globalization model, this disadvantage is even more obvious.

With the advantages of the industrial chain, "wool" in developing countries

Analysts pointed out that manipulating Latin American agriculture is only the "corner of the iceberg". In addition to exploiting Latin American countries in agriculture, the United States also uses its advantages in technology, funds, and industrial chain to place the majority of developing countries including Latin American countries at the bottom of the industry chain. By squeezing the labor force of these countries to obtain huge profits for profitability Essence

According to Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) in November 2021, there are 6,000 rewarded foreign factories in Mexico, of which 90%are located near the US -Mexico border. In Honduras, US companies also have hundreds of factories. These factories use local cheap labor and low tax policies to produce, and at the same time send profits to the United States or Europe. Throughout Central America, hundreds of thousands of workers work in textile factories. In Honduras, the income of such factory workers is only 67%of the basic income required for their survival, but the price of their products is relatively high. For example, the price of a football shirt may reach $ 25, and Latin American workers who produce it can only earn 8 cents from it. In 2011, the materials exposed by the "Wiki Disposal" website fully illustrate how the United States squeezes workers in developing countries. According to media reports such as the Broadcasting Corporation of the United States, at that time, the Haiti government increased the minimum wages of the country's workers by 2.5 times per hour, which made some American clothing companies set up in Haiti very dissatisfied. Later, the US State Department put pressure on the president of Haiti, forcing the latter to set the country's minimum wage to $ 3 a day.

The United States also consolidates its "advantageous position" in trade through the trade agreement. TRT said that whether it is the North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Mexico and the United States, or a bilateral investment treaty reached by Honduras and the United States, or a free trade agreement signed by the United States and China and America, it aims to provide American companies with low taxes and low wages Waiting for production advantages. In contrast, there are very few benefits that locals can get from it. Russian President Putin said at the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June this year that the policy of Western countries led by the United States is a more subtle means than "plunder colonialism". The goods only leave the leftovers. "

Relying on the US dollar hegemony to "absorb" other countries and pass on the crisis

In addition to the advantages of the industrial chain, the US dollar hegemony can be used to help the United States "suck away" the wealth of other countries. After World War II, thanks to the Bretton Forest system, the dollar became the world's reserve currency. After the system collapsed, the US dollar continued to maintain its hegemonic position in the financial field through linked to oil.

Sun Lipeng, an associate researcher at the American Institute of Modern International Relations, analyzed the Global Times reporter that the international monetary system led by the US dollar brings many benefits and advantages to the United States, such as the pricing power of raw materials. The United States purchases resources from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, looking for cheap labor manufacturing products, and then selling products with higher sales prices in emerging market countries to obtain more profits.

Relying on the US dollar hegemony, the United States can hardly print money by restrictions, and repeatedly switch between "opening the gate" and "closed gates" according to its own economic cycle, ranging from foreign exchange reserves from various countries, plundering global development, especially development, especially development. The wealth of the Chinese family. Over the years, the US dollar hegemony has created a "medium -income trap" in Latin America, manufactured a financial crisis in Southeast Asia, and deepened global poverty and inequality. Due to high inflation, the Fed announced on June 15 this year that 75 basis points were announced. This operation has led capital to the United States from emerging market countries, which may lead to debt defaults in some countries and put pressure on the global financial market. Sri Lanka has become the first developing country under the Federal Reserve's "interest rate hike".

Launch the trade war, there is no difference in "shooting" allies and competitors

When the United States is difficult to "harvest" the wealth of other countries through the advantages of technology and industry chain, the trade war usually becomes Washington's choice, and the American "muzzle" refers to both allies and competitors. Recently, in order to exclude China from the global chip supply chain, the United States plans to form a "chip Quartet Alliance". South Korea's "Korean National Daily" issued a post on July 21 to explain the league. The alliance is based on American semiconductor original technology, Japanese semiconductor material components, and Taiwan and Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing capabilities to build a "semiconductor supply chain co -production mechanism" Essence Although this mechanism is to curb China's development and the "one move" of China's trade war, it reminds people of the "semiconductor war" launched by Washington in Tokyo in the 1980s and 1990s.

At that time, Japan ushered in the "golden age" of the semiconductor industry. The rapid improvement of technology and capacity, surpassing the United States to become the world's largest semiconductor chip supplier. However, the US fiscal deficit in this period increased, and the foreign trade deficit rose sharply. In this context, the Japanese semiconductor industry has become the "eye nail" of the United States.

The Reagan government has repeatedly accused Japan of stealing American intellectual property rights and dumping products from the US market. In 1982, the United States arrested Hitachi and Mitsubishi employees on the grounds of industrial spies, accusing them of being suspected of stealing IBM, and the facts were the United States suppressing Japanese companies through fishing law enforcement. Three years later, the US Semiconductor Industry Association prosecuted Japan in accordance with the so -called "Article 301", and this is the US's retaliation of the so -called "unfair trade". In 1987, the United States fought the "Toshiba Incident" in one hand and suppressed Toshiba.

Under the pressure of the United States, Japan was forced to sign a treaty that is not conducive to Tokyo, such as the "Japan -US Semiconductor Guarantee Agreement" and the "Plaza Agreement". The Japanese semiconductor industry has begun to go downhill. The Minister of Economic and Industry of Japan recently bluntly stated that in a sense, because of the pressure of the United States, Japan later went wrong, leading to economic recession.

In addition to semiconductors, since the late 1980s, the trade friction between the United States and Japan has continued to heat up. The suppression of Japanese products from the United States has expanded from textiles, steel to cars, color TVs and other fields.Survey "big stick.Japan is not the only country that has been "hacked" by the United States.From Asia to Europe, countries that are unilaterally sanctioned by the United States abound.As of 2019, there are already 29 companies fined more than $ 100 million by US domestic law, 23 of which are foreign companies, 15 well -known European companies, 5 of which are French multinational companies.

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