By Nirmal P. Acharya
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited China from August 27 to 30. Before the trip, she repeatedly stressed that the Chinese company Huawei must give up the development of high-end chips, or there will be further sanctions against China.
However, just before Raimondo ended her visit to China at noon on the 29th, Huawei quietly launched the MATE60 mobile phone to the market without prior notice, and its functions reached the high-end 5G mobile phone indicators. In other words, the Chinese company Huawei has broken through the technology blockade and sanctions of the US, and can completely produce high-end mobile phones on its own.
This is exactly what China’s founding leader, Chairman Mao once said: Let the United States blockade, blockade for five or 10 years, all problems in China will be solved.
China is the world’s most powerful industrial nation, and the only area in which the US can sanction China is high-end chip manufacturing. The advent of MATE60 shows that the US strategy to contain China has suffered a major failure, and the US does not have a single sword to seal the throat of China.
In short, the launch of Huawei MATE60 marks the Sino-US game entering the stalemate stage.
In this case, it is necessary for us to re-examine the MCC. Do we really have to implement the MCC in an unmitigated and vigorous manner? It should be noted that the MCC is an integral part of the Indo-Pacific strategy and was only passed under the threat of an ultimatum from the US.
It can be expected that in this stalemate phase of the Sino-US game, the US will do everything possible to include Nepal in its Indo-Pacific strategy. This is a necessary part of the US national strategy to contain China. China, for its part, will be watching closely what the US is doing in Nepal. This is also a necessary move for China to safeguard its national security. At the same time, we also believe that Nepal’s objective history and geographical situation will prompt Nepal to develop corresponding national strategies to cope with possible crises and conflicts in Nepal during the Sino-US stalemate stage.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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