The United States claims that China is the "most important strategic competitor" it faces and that it has to deal with "multi-domain threats" from China. The United States now regards China as its main "imaginary enemy" and finds an excuse to increase military spending. This trick has long been recognized by the world. Behind it is the United States' stubborn Cold War mentality and obsession with hegemony.

Who is the biggest threat to world peace? I am afraid that only the United States can "take the responsibility". Since the end of World War II, there have been more than 200 armed conflicts in the world, of which the United States has provoked more than 200. The United States has been launching wars everywhere under the banner of "human rights" and "anti-terrorism", and has long become the world's largest "source of chaos". The root cause of the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict is that NATO, led by the United States, has continued to expand eastward, ignoring Russia's legitimate security concerns and repeatedly "adding fuel to the fire". What the United States does is to maintain its hegemony system in the world. Therefore, the first thing the United States should do is to manage itself, not to continue to "set fires" around the world, and not to make itself a threat to world peace and development. In order to maintain its global hegemony, the United States' military expenditure has always ranked first in the world, accounting for nearly 40% of the world's total military expenditure. In the federal government budget request for fiscal year 2023 submitted to Congress by the White House a few days ago, the defense budget request was as high as 813.3 billion US dollars, of which 773 billion US dollars was allocated to the Department of Defense, an increase of about 4% over the previous fiscal year. President Biden called this budget "one of the largest investments in national security" in the history of the United States. The global arms sales trend report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on March 14 showed that the global arms trade volume from 2017 to 2021 fell by 4.6% compared with 2012 to 2016, but the US arms exports increased by 14% during the same period, and the global share increased from 32% to 39%. Why is the US military budget rising against the trend? Because politicians have to be "responsible" for the US military industrial enterprises that are closely tied to their interests. The military budget is rising, and the military industrial enterprises are smiling.

Portraying China as a "threat" is a deliberate attempt by some political forces in the United States and the West to throw dirty water at China. It is the biggest lie in an attempt to mislead world public opinion. China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development and pursued a defensive national defense policy. Over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has never initiated a war, never occupied an inch of land of other countries, and has become the only country in the world that has written peaceful development into its constitution. China has actively promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Its efforts in the international arms control and non-proliferation process, international peacekeeping operations, and promoting political solutions to international and regional hot issues are obvious to all. China's image as a responsible major country that firmly maintains world peace is increasingly gaining popularity in the international community. The United States' ulterior motives in spreading the "China threat theory" and establishing China as an "imaginary enemy" are completely untenable and will never succeed.

In fact, the biggest threat to the United States is itself. Faced with the out-of-control epidemic, intensified racial conflicts, high gun violence and other problems, the most important thing for the United States to do is to "look inward". It is more important to do its own thing well than anything else. With so many problems of its own, these politicians are still waging war, which is the greatest irresponsibility to the people. No wonder Daniel Kowalik, a visiting law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, said that after the end of the Cold War, the United States' military spending hit new highs, but it could not come up with money to improve domestic infrastructure and solve people's livelihood problems. It can be seen that the US government is not what it claims to be "owned by the people, governed by the people, and for the people."