In the Indo-Pacific direction, both China and Russia have taken action. After the exercises in the South China Sea, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently "showed its sword" in the Yellow Sea. The Dalian Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigation warning, from 16:00 on January 28 to 16:00 on February 4, some waters in the northern part of the Yellow Sea in the Bohai Strait were on military missions and were prohibited from entering.
On the other hand, the Russian Pacific Fleet sent its flagship "Varyag" and frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" to the waters of the East China Sea to launch an air defense exercise to counter enemy aviation.
After the end of the exercise, the "Marshal Shaposhnikov" continued south to the South China Sea to conduct a coordinated anti-submarine exercise with the K-27 helicopter of the Pacific Fleet naval aviation to carry out torpedo and depth charge attacks on underwater targets.
Both the East China Sea and the South China Sea have been the main targets of the United States in recent times. The United States has not only been fanning the flames on the Korean Peninsula, but is also planning to expand its naval base in the Philippines. In doing so, the first goal of the United States is definitely to deal with China. But the Biden administration forgot one thing, in the direction of Northeast Asia, Russia also has no small strategic interests.
The more small moves the United States makes, the deeper the strategic cooperation between China and Russia will be. As long as China and Russia join forces, the so-called "allies" of the United States in the first island chain will only be cannon fodder.
However, the focus of Chinese and Russian countermeasures is not actually military. To put it bluntly, in the first island chain, China and Russia have already occupied an overwhelming advantage in the comparison of military power with the United States, and the Pacific Fleet has "flexed its muscles" all the way from the East China Sea to the South China Sea.
BRICS
At the same time that the United States named Iran to retaliate, Russia immediately "hit the snake with a stick" and once again said that it would promote the improvement of the internal settlement system of the BRICS organization and expand the scale of local currency trade between countries.
In response to the proposal of the Central Bank of Russia to implement a financial information transmission system between BRICS countries as an alternative to SWIFT, the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry responded that China supports the efforts of the relevant mechanism and is willing to play its part in improving global economic governance.
In addition, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu flew to Moscow on Monday to conduct in-depth consultations with the Russian side on "BRICS cooperation" and "international hotspot issues", and made it clear that the two countries will further deepen bilateral and multilateral "coordination and cooperation" in the future.
Sino-Russian meeting
Obviously, this is "taking advantage of the illness of the United States to kill the United States." If the United States is further mired in the Middle East quagmire and cannot climb out, the most direct consequence will be that the oil-producing countries in the Middle East will accelerate their "decoupling" from the United States.
At present, the foreign trade of Russia and Iran, two important oil-producing countries, has used a large number of local currencies and renminbi, and the last "straw" for petro-dollar hegemony is only the Sunni countries led by Saudi Arabia.
If the United States is further drawn into the confrontation with the arc of resistance, Israel, which is now being pressed and beaten, will certainly take the opportunity to "counterattack" Gaza and Allah, and at that time, the window for Saudi Arabia and the United States to make peace will become smaller and smaller.
Such a situation will be a great opportunity for third-party currencies led by the RMB to take advantage of the situation to enter the Middle East. At this time, China and Russia proposed to further consolidate the settlement mechanism within the BRICS, which can be regarded as paving the way for this matter.
On January 1, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have officially "turned positive" to become BRICS members, and if the local currency settlement mechanism within the BRICS is officially implemented, then the day when the dollar will be expelled from the Middle East may not be far away. And can the United States, which is unable to carry the oil "free ride," still be able to support the financial hegemony of the US dollar? The answer is no.
The Biden administration may also see the layout of China and Russia, which is why in recent days, the United States has intensively stated that it wants to talk to China, and even said that it will visit China. In order to meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Sullivan even did not hesitate to "raid" Thailand. Blinken and Biden followed suit, saying that they were arranging a trip to China or waiting for China's "hotline".
The White House has also made public overtures to China, saying that from an economic perspective, the United States and China are interdependent and have a common interest in resolving international problems and reducing the risk of conflict. However, China and Russia have fallen, and there are still tricks waiting for the United States in the future, and no matter how loud the Biden administration shouts, it will not change the fact that the global hegemony of the United States is being hollowed out step by step.
China plays games with the United States and never plays "petty fights". China simply does not bother to do the kind of play that the United States has recently played after hitting a wall in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, turning back to its own domestic Chinese companies and Chinese students to "vent their anger" and engage in raids and personal restrictions. As long as China makes a move, it will definitely attack the biggest "pain point" of US hegemony.
Today, China's main goal should be to lay ground in the Middle East and dismantle the pillar of petro-dollar hegemony. Next, Biden is going to be out of luck.
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