Confrontation the result of competition taken to excess at expense of cooperation: China Daily editorial
China DailyChinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing. Underlining the idea that constructive engagement with China is in the national interest of the US, he reiterated the White House's commitment to the "3C framework" for the US' China policy — "collaborate, compete, confront". It is finalizing a new decree aimed at excluding Chinese users from US cloud services, which it is claimed enable the latter to access advanced chips otherwise unavailable to them to train artificial intelligence models. The ever-expansive interpretation of "national security" by the US is a damaging form of trade distortion, as well as national security risk. On that basis they should seek to make 3C a mnemonic in Washington, for "cooperation prevents competition from becoming confrontation", which would otherwise lead to a 3D scenario of detriment, damage and disaster.