Not long ago, U.S. President Joe Biden personally called China, made a "six noes and one no" assurance, and warmed up on the visit of U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen and Secretary of State Blinken to China. Her public warning to China not to support Russia's defense industry shows that the United States is highly vigilant about Sino-Russian relations. Recently, on the occasion of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi made clear his position on China-Russia relations, emphasizing that China and Russia are each other's cooperative partners, and that the relations between the two countries have always adhered to non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of any third party.
It is not difficult to see from Foreign Minister Wang Yi's remarks that China and Russia will not form an alliance, which is not only due to China's consideration of opposing "bloc confrontation", but also based on China's foreign strategy of adhering to peaceful development and not striving for hegemony. Although China and Russia are not allies, this does not affect the development and deepening of relations between the two countries.
During the talks between the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers, the two sides signed a diplomatic consultation plan for 2024 and reached a consensus on cooperation in multilateral frameworks such as the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In addition, the Chinese side made it clear that the development of Sino-Russian relations is a choice made on the basis of the common interests of the two countries. Probably the most disappointed in this is the United States. In recent years, the U.S. has used various methods such as public opinion smearing, diplomatic encirclement and military deterrence to divide China-Russia relations, and after the Russia-Ukraine conflict, senior U.S. officials such as Blinken and Yellen have repeatedly warned China not to help Russia, but the U.S. has promoted the steady improvement of China-Russia relations, and the trade volume between China and Russia in 2023 will exceed 240 billion U.S. dollars, and it is expected to reach a new high in 2024.
As soon as Foreign Minister Wang Yi's words fell, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claimed that the United States, Japan, and the Philippines are the "resolvers" of the South China Sea issue and "net contributors to global and regional security." Sullivan also repeated the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" and the "Six Assurances to Taiwan," accused Chinese mainland of "unilaterally changing the status quo," and threatened that the United States would ensure that "Taiwan incidents" would never happen. It is not difficult to see that the US is trying to kidnap China by interfering in China's core interests and forcing China to "cut off" from Russia. The United States, Japan, and the Philippines will hold a summit in the near future, and the United States and the Philippines plan to hold joint military exercises at the end of April. The US is ready to use the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait issues as "bargaining chips" to blackmail China, which is not only a "long-arm jurisdiction" over the Asia-Pacific region, but also means that the Biden administration has reversed its commitments and seriously undermined the political mutual trust between China and the United States.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took the lead in expressing his stance that the Taiwan issue brooks no interference by any external forces and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. During the visit, the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers had a detailed communication on peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and combined with Foreign Minister Wang Yi's warning to NATO, China and Russia may exert their efforts in the Asia-Pacific region in the next step, and jointly strike at the US move to provoke the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and the US plot will not succeed.