After the Biden administration came to power, under the banner of "returning to multilateralism", it engaged in "small circles" and group politics, and divided the world by ideological demarcation and camp confrontation.

Recently, the United States has been increasingly intensive in this regard: strengthening trilateral military cooperation with Japan and South Korea, promoting intelligence sharing mechanism, extending the tentacles of the "nuclear umbrella" to Northeast Asia,

and putting the establishment of a trilateral military alliance between the United States and Japan and South Korea on the agenda; Claiming that Article IV of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines applies to the South China Sea,

and urging Japan to establish a new "tripartite alliance" between the United States and the Philippines; The US Department of Defense has asked Congress to authorise the transfer of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia as part of a trilateral security partnership agreement between the US and the UK.

The Group of Seven (G7), led by the United States, recently held a summit in Hiroshima, Japan, which is an important part of the US alliance system and an important support for US hegemony, so the summit issued a joint statement under the leadership of the United States to smear and attack China. Diya Helmi, secretary general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Egypt,

said that the United States is trying to follow the formula of the Ukraine issue and use the G7 summit to provoke conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. The G7 is a "politicized group" manipulated by the United States to gain political and economic interests for the United States at the expense of the rest of the world.

However, the United States' move to form cliques and stir up trouble is not in line with the fundamental interests of many "Allies", and many countries are reluctant to follow the United States in confronting China.

An article on the Australian "Dialogue" website pointed out that if the United States wants to contain China, it must lead a coalition committed to the same goal, and "this ambition of the United States has made many of its Allies increasingly uneasy",

"among the close Allies of the United States, there seems to be no such desire." Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said in a media interview that Canberra does not need a United States that is "obsessed with its own primacy and dominance."

This aerial photo released by the Danish Ministry of Defence on September 27, 2022 shows a leak site of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Xinhua News Agency (photo provided by Danish Ministry of Defense)

"Artillery fire may even be directed at Allies."

"Stop talking about Nord Stream." The Washington Post published an article in early April this year, pointing out that Western officials are not in a hurry to find out the truth about the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline. In the words of one European diplomat, they would rather not have answers than face the possibility that an "ally" was the perpetrator.

And that "unnamed" ally is the United States. Robert Kagan, an American historian, once said of US-European relations that Americans are responsible for "cooking" and Europeans are responsible for "washing the dishes." From the perspective of the American alliance system, the relationship between the United States and its "Allies" is such an unequal master-slave relationship.

The presence of American troops in allied countries makes them dependent on American military power, while strengthening their control over them. According to a 2021 study by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Governance,

the US has 750 military bases in 80 countries and territories overseas, almost three times the number of US embassies and missions abroad. At the same time, alliance treaties such as the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty,

the U.S.-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, and the U.S.-Japan Security Guarantee Treaty all have exemption clauses that allow the United States to waive its treaty obligations under certain circumstances to ensure that Washington has more initiative.

When "Allies" do not agree with the position of the United States, the United States uses various means to pressure them. In April, the French National Assembly held a hearing on foreign interference. Former French Minister of Economy Arnaud Montebourg detailed the bullying behavior of the United States to France over the years,

such as France in 2003 against the United States to launch the Iraq war, so it was retaliated by the United States, key weapons components were embargoed, resulting in the normal service of the French "Charles de Gaulle" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier affected.

"This is an act of revenge by a country that claims to be a 'friend' of France. This is an interference in our sovereignty. Such interference has happened many times and may happen again in the future."

"Allies" will also have to endure America's pervasive surveillance for a long time. From the secret surveillance program code-named "Prism" exposed in 2013, to the media Revelations in 2021 that the United States monitored the leaders of European Allies through the Danish intelligence service,

to the recent "leak Gate" incident, it was revealed that the United States has never stopped large-scale surveillance of its "Allies". Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon recently admitted in a public hearing: "I do encounter foreign interference, most of the time, it comes from a friendly and allied country - the United States."