BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The current international order allows no reckless moves and any government that ignores the rules is doomed to fail.
For over a year, the current U.S. administration has been willfully waving its stick of tariffs, provoking trade disputes and turning itself into the biggest troublemaker in the international community.
The United States' imposition of additional tariffs on Chinese goods without authorization of the World Trade Organization (WTO) disregarded its own promises, and the rules of the WTO. It was an arbitrary and reckless act that overrode international rules with unilateral ones.
In fact, hostility towards international rules has become a label of the current U.S. government's foreign policy.
Over the past few years, the country has withdrawn from international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Universal Postal Union.
It has pulled out from a series of international treaties including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the landmark Paris climate agreement, the Global Compact on Migration, the Iranian nuclear deal, and the Optional Protocol on Dispute Resolution to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
It has also tried to force renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the South Korea-U.S. FTA.
The unilateral acts of the United States have posed serious challenges to international rules and global governance.
However, times of hegemony in which countries compete to show muscle and strength are gone. Global issues should be settled with negotiations.
The international pattern of strength is fast changing and multi-polarization is increasingly obvious. In a world of rising cross-border issues and higher demand for a global system of rules, the United States is creating trouble for both itself and others by sticking to unilateralism.
Safeguarding multilateralism and the rules-based multilateral trading system is the fundamental interest of all countries.
If the United States insists on getting its own way, the path it takes will lead to failure.