With the slow end of the science and technology war and the trade war, the Sino-US game has reached the depths of the water, the financial war has become the core battlefield, China, which holds a large amount of US debt, has become a knife on the head of the United States, the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates, and US Treasury Secretary Yellen has made an urgent visit to China.
According to the reservation plan, Yellen, who arrived in Guangzhou on the 4th, will enter Beijing on the 7th after making a series of preparations, and according to the diplomatic practice of the United States, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of the treasury will visit countries with tense relations, which will inevitably be accompanied by off-site momentum, and sure enough, the United States, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia announced on the 6th that on the 7th, they will hold a four-nation military exercise in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. It's clear that it's to build momentum for Yellen.
But let me say that this is a swollen face and a fat man, the so-called four-nation military exercise, a total of 5 warships, 2 Philippine old and small ones, 1 Japanese Murayu-class destroyer "Akebono", Australia's "Anzac" class "Valamenga" frigate, and a "Mobile" littoral combat ship. The combined tonnage of these 5 warships may not be as good as the 2 055 drives.
On the day of the 7th, the Southern Theater announced that it would organize joint naval and air combat patrols in the South China Sea, and all military activities to disrupt the South China Sea and create hot spots were under control.
Although I don't know what kind of forces the Southern Theater will send to patrol, I do know that as long as the PLA makes a stop in the South China Sea, this small combined fleet, like Yellen who arrived in Beijing, will not be able to stir up much wind and waves.
As mentioned earlier, what did US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen want to do when she came to China and Beijing? She came to seek China's cooperation and let China be the "timely rain" of the United States.
It is not impossible to ask China to do things, but the premise is that the United States must do three things: lift sanctions against China, stop interfering in China's internal affairs, and stop provoking regional situations. If the United States can do this, it is not impossible to cooperate, but the key point is that the United States cannot do it.
Last month, the United States increased its chip sanctions against China again, plugging all the loopholes in the export of high-end chips from the United States to China, and the United States even wanted to attack China's new energy vehicles and shipbuilding industry, but the United States kicked the iron plate, and China has an absolute advantage in these two industries, which is not something that the United States can shake at all.
According to U.S. media reports, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will visit the United States around the 10th, according to multiple sources, U.S. President Biden will have unprecedented trilateral contacts with the two, and it is said that the meeting will strengthen cooperation between the three sides on regional issues. In essence, it is raising tensions in the South China Sea.
This series of incidents actually reflects that there is no basis for cooperation between China and the United States, and that the United States has sent one high-ranking official after another to visit China, which is in fact just a show, and in essence it is useless to talk about chickens and ducks. Although I don't want to admit it, this is the fundamental logic of the current game between China and the United States.
The most terrible thing is that the United States has no intention or ability to change its situation, Yellen is gone, and the next one is Blinken, but these high-ranking officials came to China just to build momentum for the Biden election, Biden is gone, and the next one may be Trump, but these presidents are only coming to power for the benefit of a specific group.
To put it mildly, if the United States does not revolutionize itself and does not change its diplomatic methods, then it will not be able to find an effective solution to the contradictions between China and the United States. In other words, under the unilateral impetus of the United States, Sino-US relations have entered a life-and-death situation to a certain extent.
Again, China is the largest creditor of the United States, and inflation in the United States has reached the limit.