US Selective Decoupling from China Under Inter-State Green Competition and Digital Competition
Green competition and digital competition are the two core areas of national competition in this era.After positioning China as a"strategic competitor",the United States has implemented a selective"decoupling"strategy against China by targeting the green economy and the digital economy in the name of"de-risking".Based on the differ-ences in national competitive advantages and disadvantages,the United States has taken very different"decoupling"measures in the fields of green economy and digital econo-my.The trade theory based on interdependence cannot explain the"decoupling"behavior of the United States towards China.By integrating exogenous factors,security perceptions and national competitive advantages,the author proposes an analytical framework to explain the selective"decoupling"of the US from China,arguing that green transformation and digital transformation,as exogenous factors,are trendy,uncontrollable and irreversible,resul-ting in the emergence of a new race track in national competition,the inability of the first-mover to control the competitive landscape,and continuous follow-up by the later-mov-ers.The United States has shaped the security of the green economy and the digital economy through the construction of identity discourse and threat discourse.The United States tries to block the upgrading of China's digital supply chain by means of export control and invest-ment restriction in the field of digital economy where the United States has competitive ad-vantages,while in the field of green economy where the United States has competitive dis-advantages,the United States mainly implements various measures characterized by import substitution to get rid of its dependence on China's green supply chain.As the common ma-terial basis of the green economy and the digital economy,the supply chain of critical min-erals is also facing the risk of reorganization by the United States.The ultimate goal of the United States'selective"decoupling"from China is to develop economic interdependence in key areas within its political-military alliance system in the form of issue-based alliances.
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