Wrong cure for what ails it

The aggressive foreign policy of the US has exacerbated rather than remedied its domestic plight SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY Today, the United States is facing various internal challenges with its inflation hitting a historical high over the past 40 years and social divisions worsening. In September 2020, the Carnegie Foundation released a report titled "Making US Foreign Policy Work Better for the Middle Class", suggesting that Joe Biden, who was running for president, should understand more deeply "domestic economic and social issues and their complex interaction with foreign policy decisions". The "liberal hawks" in the US indulge in the unipolar hegemony of the US after the Cold War, and believe that the US can exclude China, Russia and some other countries from the international system by forming an "alliance of values", unilaterally formulate international rules and solve global challenges, and create an external environment conducive to its mid- and long-term domestic reform. The US administration's "value diplomacy" has not formed any consensus in the divided domestic society, but created an "anti-China sentiment" among decision-makers in Washington, preventing the government from solving internal and external problems through cooperation with China. However, with a Cold War mindset, some US politicians still intend to gain advantage in negotiations by putting "extreme pressure" on China, and repeatedly testing it on core issues such as the Taiwan question, which is harmful to solving their domestic problems.