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The thought of Laozi is of paramount importance in Chinese traditional culture. It is significant for us to discover some meaningful factors in Laozi's ideological systems in order to expand and strengthen China's soft power. Coincidently, there exists something in common between the thought of Laozi and ethics in Western political philosophy. The comparison of these ethical views of different value systems would help in better understanding the advantages of Chinese traditional culture in the process of China's soft power construction. This essay tries to summarise some common factors between the thought of Laozi and Western global ethics that can contribute to the construction of China's soft power. This could in turn offer an approach to establishing a 'Chinese school' in international political theories as well as contribute to global ethics architecture. This essay has been divided into three sections. The first discusses global ethics in Western political philosophy while the second investigates global ethics in Laozi's ideological system and then makes a contrast between Laozi's global ethics and those in Western political philosophy. In the final section, some fundamental principles in China's soft power construction will be explored.

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an unprecedented challenge to supply chain management around the world, particularly in the United States. To constrain China's tech rise and its potential dominance in global supply chains as well as pursue America's supremacy in tech innovation and global supply chain system, the Biden administration fully exploits the comparative advantages of like-minded technological democracies to maximize its ability to hedge challenges China poses and elaborately weaves a global supply chain security coalition (GSCSC) by combining point-to-point cooperation with coordination under the framework of multilateral institutions with different characteristics such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), Five Eyes, and the Australia–United Kingdom–United States (AUKUS). This paper draws on the theoretical framework of neoclassical realism to analyze the generation, layout, and influence of GSCSC strategy under the administration of Biden. It indicates that the GSCSC strategy, which mainly targets the Indo-Pacific region and aims to impede China in critical supply chains industry, exerts an influence on the US domestic political and economic development, Sino-US relationship, and geopolitics in Asia. It also signifies a great stride for the Biden administration to renew America's global supremacy after Trump.