Yellen has visited China again, and the last time she ate mushrooms at the Yunnan restaurant, she had an endless aftertaste. The first meal on the ground this time was a Cantonese restaurant. The trip to Guangzhou greeted the stomach first, did not fall jet lag, and went directly into Tao Taoju, he was really a foodie, born in 1946, 78 years old this year, with a good appetite and a tough body.
The U.S. Consulate hopes to sit in the lobby, cut off by screens, and dine with the citizens, and the menu includes shrimp dumplings, roast goose, pan-fried radish cake, a bite of crispy tofu, oil-soaked dragon grouper, chilled slug pork, dry fried beef river, casserole mushroom pot, double skin milk and other public refreshments, and the consulate said that the old lady was quite satisfied with the food.
Yellen's visit to China is the beginning of a new round of diplomatic engagement with China before the U.S. election, and who would have thought that she would become the first official in the Biden cabinet to make a second visit to China. Entering the election season, Biden is already destined to miss his visit to China during his first term, and Yellen bears the heavy responsibility of Biden's re-election, which can be seen from the financial direction of his campaign.
It can be seen from Yellen's outfit when she gets off the plane that she is really pragmatic, putting personal belongings in her cross-body backpack and carrying a briefcase, looking like a dusty person. The most important thing is to carry with you, never leave your hand, which is also a kind of rigor, smiling, nodding when you see people, and showing humility and friendliness.
The reason why it was agreed that she would be the first to visit China shows that among the Sino-US issues, economic and trade issues are ranked high. Yellen herself is highly professional, and relatively speaking, in the Biden administration, compared with other politicians, it seems that she is not in charge of politics, and the partisan color is relatively light.
She is also seen as a "dove" in handling Sino-US relations, suitable for a "bridge role", and has built trust with her Chinese and American counterparts. But whether she is "dove or not" depends on how she swings between the economic rationality of China and the United States and the irrationality of Washington politics. In the United States, in this environment, the pigeon can be driven to the eagle in minutes. The Chinese side can also predict the intentions, tone and possible outcomes of the follow-up officials who will visit China from her statement this time.
On the occasion of her visit to China, Yellen has already made a statement on social networking sites, unequivocally stating that the purpose of her trip is to "advance the economic and national security interests of the United States" and will focus on promoting healthy economic relations and "providing a level playing field for American workers and businesses......
At the same time, she emphasized that the United States has strengthened its ties with emerging markets, including the Indo-Pacific region, and that these efforts illustrate the diversification of critical supply chains and the strengthening of U.S. economic security.
Yellen believes that China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world, especially when there is a disagreement, it is important to maintain open lines of communication, and "the American people expect us to handle this relationship responsibly."
Before leaving for China, she said that she would talk about American interests, American security, American workers, American businesses, and American people, but lacked the expression "China and the United States are common."
To put it bluntly, Yellen is sending a strong message to China: You produce too many things, especially clean energy products, that the world cannot absorb. The United States is particularly concerned that a surge in cheap exports of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and solar energy will hurt its interests, so it does not rule out other possible ways to protect it. The Chinese side wants to explain to her why the interests of American workers and enterprises have declined, and why they cannot blame China's development on the head, and why the West has done in the past to find more internal causes. These commodities are still only civilian goods, and they are already intended to be added to the crime, and it is not known what kind of words will be used when it comes to the export of military products in the future.
From this point of view, not long ago, Trump coincidentally made a sedan chair for Biden, and promised that if he entered the palace for the second time, he would impose large-scale tariffs, including 60% tariffs on Chinese goods and 10% tariffs on goods imported from all over the world. This kind of conservative rhetoric leaves Biden with little way out, compressing his room for maneuver and forcing him to take a tougher stance on China before Election Day, accompanying Trump in the game of "who is more ruthless than whom". In the political atmosphere of Washington, which is tough on China, Yellen does not echo this hawkish atmosphere, after all, the old lady is in the rivers and lakes, and she can't help herself.
In addition to Yellen's visit, Blinken will also visit China for the second time. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to make the first contacts with his Chinese counterpart "soon." On the one hand, Biden seeks to avoid severing all relations with China, the so-called "non-decoupling", while at the same time trying to contain risks at the expense of China's development interests. If he wants to tell his "ruling story" well, the only thing he can do is to take care of and find a balance between the interests of China and the United States, instead of eating alone.
The relationship between China and the United States needs to be managed, and there is no need to deliberately arrange direct flights from Yellen and Blinken to China, or to communicate on the occasion of multilateral meetings. Regarding Yellen and Blinken's visit to China, the Chinese side used the word "welcome".
But the background of these senior officials' visits to China came after the tone of the phone call between the Chinese and US heads of state set the tone. For Yellen, her six-day visit to China is believed to be a food trip, and this time she was photographed by the media slipping with chopsticks to eat.
"Propriety and benefit", both of which are unambiguous in China.
As the head of state said bluntly in the phone call, there are endless measures to suppress China's economy, trade, science and technology, and the list of sanctioned companies is getting longer and longer, which is creating risks. If we insist on suppressing China's high-tech development, "we will not sit idly by."
The old lady's briefcase should contain the minutes of the Führer's call.