Kong Jun, People’s Daily
U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Ford, have been vowing to establish “rules-based international order” in recent days while they keep slandering China.
It is known to all that the core of international order is the modern international law system based on the Charter of the United Nations. Since the end of the World War II, the system, jointly established by the international society, has been serving as a basis to safeguard global peace and stability, and promote common development of all countries. It deserves to be cherished and protected.
However, what has the U.S. done to this system that it had once actively promoted?
As early as 2001, the U.S. had withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, reversing the process of U.S.-Soviet Union/Russia bilateral nuclear disarmament. It placed severe negative impacts on global peace and stability.
In recent years, Washington has been leaning to unilateralism, quitting and withdrawing from more and more treaties and organizations.
The U.S. unilaterally quit the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that it once promoted to reach and was endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231. In addition to denying the treaty itself, the U.S. obstructed the implementation by other signatories via unilateral sanction and its long-arm jurisdiction.
The U.S. and Russia, as the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, are specifically responsible for nuclear disarmament, and they should further reduce the number of their nuclear weapons based on the implementation of the existing Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (SART), so as to encourage other countries to follow.
However, disregarding the whole world, Washington just tore apart the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty reached between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1987, recovering the research and tests of land-based intermediate-range missiles and declaring to deploy such weapons in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Reluctant to extend the SART, the U.S. proposed the so-called China-U.S.-Russia trilateral arms control negotiations, trying to duck responsibilities and pass the buck to China.
Facing increasing nuclear risks, China is actively calling on the five nuclear-weapon states to reiterate the important idea – “nuclear wars can never be won and must never be fought” which was jointly raised by former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. However, as the country who put forward the idea, the U.S. now refuses to reiterate it.
As a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the U.S. should have actively promoted the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction based on the consensus reached on the 1995 review conference of the treaty. However, the U.S. has always been negative in this regard, and even refused to join the related international conference summoned by the United Nations not long ago.
On the Palestine-Israel situation, the U.S. once supported the “two-state solution” on the basis of the 1967 borders to be the only correct scheme to solve the issues between the two countries. The “two-state solution” was also confirmed by the resolution of the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly. However, Washington just had a u-turn and the U.S. administration just went back on its word.
Besides, the White House also announced to drop out of the Arms Trade Treaty during this year’s United Nations General Assembly. It declared the U.S. would never approve the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and said it was planning on the withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies that it has implemented for years with Russia.
International security treaties and organizations are not the only sector that the U.S. is abandoning. Washington has also quit other major international mechanisms such as the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Paris Agreement. Such practices have long been despised by the international community.
In addition, the U.S. blockade of the new judges appointed by the Appellate Body of the WTO over the years even paralyzed the organization.
As a matter of fact, the U.S. is not only undermining the existing international consensuses, but also doing everything to stop new international rules and systems from being established.
For instance, it voted 21 against and 6 abstensions out of the 60 resolutions in this year’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the United Nations General Assembly, totally standing at the opposite of the international society.
When it comes to the uses of outer space, which is closely related to the welfare of all human beings as well as global peace and security, the U.S. has long neglected the appeal of the international society, and rejected to initiate the negotiation of international treaties on the prevention of arms race in outer space. It also prevented relevant UN panels’ approval of work reports.
The above facts fully prove that the U.S. is no longer an active constructor of and contributor to international governance system, but a genuine revisionist country as it stubbornly insists the “America first” policy, is self-centered in international affairs and constantly withdraws from treaties and organizations.
Such a U.S. is never qualified to be an establisher of the “rules-based international order”. Even though it could make new rules, to what extent will it obey them, and who would really believe such a U.S. is able to obey them?
A just cause enjoys abundant support while an unjust cause finds little. Certainly these practices of the U.S. have received protests and opposition from the international society. However, the protests and opposition failed to trigger introspection of the U.S., who, on the contrary, schemes to organize “cliquey” groups and makes its so-called rules exclusively with its partners. Through its hegemony in military, finance and technology, it exerts its own wills on the international society.
In May, the U.S. initiated the so-called 5G Security Conference in Prague, Czech, and issued the Prague Proposals. This meeting was joined by only a few countries, and rejected the participation of China. Ever since, U.S. officials started selling this so-called rules, requesting other countries to ban the devices manufactured by China’s tech firm Huawei.
Such evil intention is obvious to all. The so-called rules of the U.S. are just a tool to seek private gains and maintain hegemony.
Those who conform to the trend of history prosper and those who go against it fade. History has proven, and will prove once again that those who go against the trend of time, undermine international order, and prevent global peace and development won’t end up well, and will finally enter the “hall of shame” of history.
It’s time for the U.S. officials to stop their preaching on the so-called “rules-based international order”.
美国究竟要建立哪门子国际秩序？
孔 君
近一段时期以来，美国国务卿蓬佩奥、助理国务卿福特等大小官员，在不厌其烦地抹黑污蔑中国的同时，言必称要建立“基于规则的国际秩序”。
众所周知，国际秩序的核心应当是以联合国宪章为基础的现代国际法体系。第二次世界大战结束以来，国际社会共同构建的这一体系成为维护世界和平与稳定、促进各国共同发展的基础，值得国际社会共同珍惜和努力维护。然而，美国现在对其曾积极推动构建的这一体系又是持什么态度呢？
早在2001年，美国就退出《反导条约》，开启了拆除美苏（俄）双边核裁军体系的进程，给全球和平与稳定造成严重消极影响。近两年来，美国单边主义更是愈演愈烈，在毁约、退群的道路上越走越远。
在伊朗核问题上，美国单方面退出了自己参与谈判达成并经安理会2231号决议核可的伊朗核问题全面协议。不仅如此，美国不但自己不履行这一协议，还利用单边制裁、长臂管辖等手段阻挠协议其他各方履行协议。
在核裁军问题上，美俄作为拥有最大核武库的国家，对核裁军负有特殊责任，两国理应在履行现有《新削减进攻性战略武器条约》基础上，继续进一步削减其核武库，为其他国家参加核裁军创造条件。但是，美国置全世界劝阻于不顾，于今年8月悍然撕毁美苏于1987年达成的《中导条约》，立即恢复陆基中导研发和试验，并宣称将在欧洲和亚太重新部署中导。美国对《新削减进攻性战略武器条约》延期一直态度消极，还节外生枝，抛出所谓的“中美俄三边军控谈判”倡议，试图推卸自身责任并向中国甩锅。在当前核风险不断上升的背景下，中方积极倡导五核国重申戈尔巴乔夫与里根共同提出的“核战争打不赢，也打不得”理念，以降低核冲突风险。但是，美国作为这一理念的原创者却翻脸不认账，拒绝重申这一理念。
在中东问题上，美国作为《不扩散核武器条约》存约国，本应根据1995年条约审议大会共识，积极推动建立中东无核武器及其他大规模杀伤性武器区，但美国对此却一直态度消极，竟拒绝参加不久前联合国就此召开的国际会议。在巴以问题上，以1967年边界为基础的“两国方案”是解决巴以问题的唯一正确出路，已得到联合国安理会和联合国大会决议的确认，美国原本也是赞成的。但美国人翻脸比翻书还快，特朗普政府说不认账就不认账了。
此外，美国总统特朗普在今年联合国大会公开宣布撤销对《武器贸易条约》的签署。美国还声称永不批准《全面禁止核试验条约》，并放风将退出美俄已执行多年的《开放天空条约》。
美国不仅在国际安全领域不断毁约、退群，在其他领域也不例外。美国退出联合国人权理事会、联合国教科文组织和气候变化《巴黎协定》等一系列国际重要机制，早已为世人所熟知和不齿。在世界贸易组织，美国多年来阻挠上诉机构任命新法官，导致世贸组织上诉机构几近瘫痪。
事实上，美国不仅不断侵蚀、破坏已有国际共识，其极力阻挠建立新的国际规则和制度的消极举措不胜枚举。以今年联合国大会国际安全与裁军委员会为例，美国对全部60项决议中的21项投了反对票、6项投了弃权票，完全站在了国际社会的对立面。在事关全人类福祉和世界和平与安全的外空利用问题上，美国无视国际社会长期呼吁，拒绝启动有关防止外空武器化和军备竞赛的国际条约谈判，并独家阻挡联合国相关专家组通过工作报告。
所有上述事实充分证明，美国顽固坚持“美国优先”政策，在国际事务中以自我为中心，大搞“退出主义”，早已不再是国际治理体系的积极构建者和贡献者，而是臭名昭著的搅局者和破坏者，是名副其实的“修正主义国家”。
国际社会不禁要问，对于这样的美国，其有何资格奢谈制定“基于规则的国际秩序”？对于这样的美国，即使制定了新的规则，美又能在多大程度上去遵守？对于这样的美国，即使其声称要遵守规则，谁又真正会相信？
得道多助，失道寡助。美国这些做法当然受到国际社会的抵制和反对。在此情况下，美国不仅不反躬自省，而是处心积虑地去搞小团伙、小圈子，拉着一帮小兄弟关起门来制定其所谓的规则，并试图凭借其军事、金融、科技等霸权，把自己的单方面意志强加给国际社会。今年5月，美国推动在布拉格召开了所谓的“5G安全会议”，并发布了名为“布拉格提议”的声明。该会议只有少数国家参加，并明确拒绝中国参加。此后，美国官员就拿着这个所谓的规则到处兜售，要求其他国家禁用中国的华为设备。司马昭之心，路人皆知。美国所谓的“规则”只不过是其谋求一己之私、推行霸权主义的遮羞布罢了。
历史潮流浩浩汤汤，顺之者昌，逆之者亡。历史已经并将继续证明，谁开历史倒车、谁破坏国际秩序、谁阻挠国际和平与发展，必将头破血流，也终将被钉在历史的耻辱柱上。
美国所谓的“国际秩序论”可以休矣！
来源：人民日报
