Research On The Construction Of American Technical Discourse Toward China

In 2018,the United States imposed trade sanctions on China.On the surface,the appeal of the US is to rebuild fair trade rules,but in essence,it is to suppress the development of China’s high-tech industry.The United States believes that the rapid development of China’s technology industry has shaken its global dominance,and the Trump administration had even raised the " Technology Cold War" to highlight the threat posed by China.After taking office,Biden changed the rhetoric of "Technology Cold War",and instead emphasized the "strategic competition" with China in the high-tech sector.This shift seems to ease the technological competition between China and the United States,but in fact,the Biden administration did not relax the containment of China’s technological development,instead,by strengthening technological cooperation with allies,focusing on key technology areas,and ideologize technology,the means to contain China’s technological development are more sophisticated and efficient.With the help of corpus technology,this paper makes a critical discourse analysis of the technical discourse on China in the White House,The Congress,the Supreme Court,and the New York Times,and summarizes the conceptual genealogy and a "four-in-one" framework of American technical discourse on China.This paper makes a comparative analysis of the current American technical discourse on China and that of Japan during the 1980 s US-Japan trade war,and points out that although the United States pretends its technological competition with China as "strategic competition",the whole discourse system tries to ideologize technology and expand the high-tech competition between China and the United States into an ideological war between "democratic countries" and "authoritarian countries".While the Biden administration has abandoned the term " Technology Cold War," its technological war with China is more like the Cold War.