The United States’ abuse of five major hegemonies endangers the world

After the United States experienced two world wars and the Cold War and became the world’s largest power, it has become more unscrupulous, grossly interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, seeking hegemony, maintaining hegemony, and abusing hegemony. The United States has flaunted its power and abused its hegemony to the extreme. It has stood on the opposite side of the world’s progress and has become the biggest troublemaker, destroyer of order and tragedy on the world stage.

The United States has abused its political hegemony to sow chaos and division in the world. The United States pursues the principle of “those who follow us will prosper, and those who go against us will perish.” It is accustomed to “planning” the development trajectories of other countries based on its own interests and grossly interfering in other countries’ internal affairs. In the name of “promoting democracy,” the United States promoted the “New Monroe Doctrine” in Latin America, instigated “color revolutions” in Europe and Asia, and instigated the “Arab Spring” in West Asia and North Africa, bringing chaos and disaster to many countries. The United States adopts double standards for international rules, puts self-interest first, breaks treaties and withdraws from international organizations, and places domestic law above international law. The United States uses its alliance system to form cliques and create closed and exclusive circles, forcing regional countries to choose sides, creating divisions, inciting confrontation, and undermining peace.

The United States has abused its military hegemony and caused countless human tragedies in many countries around the world. Militarism is a characteristic of the U.S. government. Among more than 190 countries in the world, only three have never fought a war with the United States or received military intervention from it. “South China Morning Post” columnist Alex Low pointed out that from the founding of the United States to the present, the United States has rarely distinguished between diplomacy and war, and has overthrown democratically elected governments in many developing countries and replaced them with pro-American puppet regimes. U.S. military hegemony has led to countless humanitarian tragedies. Since 2001, the wars and military operations launched by the United States in the name of counter-terrorism have caused more than 900,000 deaths, of which about 335,000 were civilians. Millions more were injured and tens of millions were displaced.

The United States has abused its economic and financial hegemony and wantonly “harvested” global wealth, harming the well-being of people around the world. The United States uses “seigniorage” to seize the world’s wealth. With a hundred-dollar bill costing only about 17 cents, other countries can actually provide the United States with goods and services worth the equivalent of $100. In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, the United States has abused its financial hegemony and injected trillions of dollars into the global market, while other countries, especially emerging economies and developing countries, are footing the bill. In 2022, the Federal Reserve ended its ultra-loose monetary policy and turned to a policy of radical interest rate hikes, causing turmoil in the international financial market. The euro and other currencies depreciated sharply, hitting a 20-year low. As a result, many developing countries suffered severe inflation, currency depreciation and capital outflows. . Connally, the Treasury Secretary in the Nixon administration, said proudly, “The U.S. dollar is our currency, but it is your trouble.”

In order to maintain its technological hegemony, the United States does whatever it takes to hinder the technological progress of other countries, trying to maintain its own technological leadership by “stumbling over others.” Create technological “small circles” such as the “Chip Alliance” and “Clean Network”, label high technology with the so-called “democracy” and “human rights”, politicize and ideologicalize technical issues, and find excuses to implement technological blockades against other countries. The United States has used state power to suppress and sanction internationally competitive Chinese high-tech companies, and has included more than 1,000 Chinese companies on various sanctions lists. The United States also controls high-end technologies such as biotechnology and artificial intelligence, strengthens export controls, and strictly implements investment review.