Although Yellen's trip to China had a good meal, the US side obviously did not have a pleasant discussion. The evidence is that as soon as she left Beijing on the front foot, the United States stepped up its efforts to call China on the back foot. In just a few days, the United States, from political to military circles, began to exert their efforts to shout at China from afar.
On April 8, the U.S. ambassador to Japan worked hard to build momentum for the summit of the leaders of the United States, Japan and the Philippines held this week, saying that the United States is ready to launch a "historic upgrade" of military cooperation between the United States and Japan to deal with the "China threat." He also called for a thorough adjustment of the Indo-Pacific military posture, uniting the Philippines, Japan and Australia to completely isolate China, and we have to be tough in the face of China.
On April 9, while attending a meeting of a think tank in Sydney, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command general openly smeared China, saying that China's defense of sovereignty in the South China Sea is "expanding its territory" and advocating that Southeast Asian countries should strengthen military cooperation with the United States. This is pure nonsense. When the Chinese first exercised jurisdiction in the South China Sea, the Philippines did not even exist.
Yellen
It has never been China that has tried to introduce foreign forces in the South China Sea to expand its territory and encroach on the interests of other countries, but it is the Philippines, a staunch ally of the United States. The Pentagon's reversal of black and white in this matter will only expose ignorance and shamelessness. And that's not all, Sullivan made his first appearance in front of the media after the fracture on April 10, and the first issue he talked about was China.
Sullivan declared that the United States will organize more "joint patrols" in the South China Sea in the future, and the United States is seriously considering the possibility of AUKUS and Japan "working together", threatening to ensure that "incidents in the Taiwan Strait" never happen.
In addition to hyping up the South China Sea issue, the United States has also extended its black hand into space. The US Space Force Command announced that it would invite New Zealand, France, and Germany to join the US-UK-Australia-Canada "space cooperation" group in order to strengthen the so-called "ability to respond to space attacks." The spearhead is aimed at China and Russia, and the ambition to militarize outer space is clearly exposed.
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What is even more ridiculous is that while busy pulling small groups, the United States also shouted at China and Russia in the air, saying that it hopes to strengthen trust with China and Russia to avoid conflict. It's like a person who is busy sharpening his knife and fantasizes that the enemy will take the initiative to lay down his weapon, which is completely insanity.
Subsequently, Biden met with Fumio Kishida and issued a joint statement, announcing a "new era" and "the most important upgrade" in the U.S.-Japan alliance, claiming that the U.S. and Japan will continue to closely coordinate to address challenges related to China. However, for China now, such a "nervous disorder" of the United States is not necessarily a bad thing.
From an emotional point of view, a hegemonic country's crazy provocation in the surrounding area is certainly a very "unpleasant" thing. However, if we analyze it from a more realistic angle, this series of provocations by the United States has two characteristics, one is that it is "a dojo in a snail shell" and the other is that "the thunder is heavy and the rain is small", which is not difficult to deal with, and the trouble it brings to China is also very limited.
Bihikai
The idea of making a dojo in a snail shell is that although the United States is everywhere exaggerating an atmosphere of forming a gang to deal with China, if you look closely at the "gang" and the "gang" that the United States has formed, it is essentially still tossing in a small circle, and it has not won over newcomers at all. Whether it is Japan, the Philippines, Germany, or France, they are themselves members of the existing camp of the United States, and no matter how many groups the United States builds, the members who participate are still those who cannot scare China.
In fact, if you carefully calculate it, the group in the United States is actually getting smaller and smaller. This is evidenced by two recent events. First, Japan's plan to join AUKUS was stuck. The expansion of AUKUS was first broken by the British media "Financial Times".
However, the Australian leader immediately clarified at a press conference that he does not intend to add a "fourth party" to the established framework. Then, Sullivan jumped out to talk about AUKUS and Japan "working together". From this chronological order, it is not difficult to see that there are obvious differences between Australia and the United States and Britain on the matter of pulling Japan into the group.
In addition to the fact that the Australian government does not want to interrupt the momentum of developing relations with China, I am afraid that the empty checks written by the United States and Britain to Australia under the AUKUS framework have not been honored, so Canberra does not want Japan to take a piece of the pie at all. This incident shows that even within the "small circle," the United States' ability to control the field is getting weaker and weaker.
Second, ASEAN is collectively moving closer to China. In early April, in the annual survey report of a Singaporean think tank, the proportion of respondents who chose China surpassed that of the United States for the first time in answering the question "who should choose between China and the United States". This is a major blow to Biden.
Biden and Marcos Jr. continue to hype up the South China Sea issue in order to drive a wedge between China and ASEAN. As a result, after more than a year of tossing, the support of other ASEAN countries for China has not decreased, but has increased, and the trust in the United States has become lower and lower, and all Biden's calculations have come to naught.
China-ASEAN
From this incident, it can be seen that the influence of the United States in Asia and even the world is declining. This kind of decline can be blamed on Trump, who engaged in isolationism, but now it is Biden, who claims to "reshape America's global leadership", who is the president of the United States. This shows that the decline of the global influence of the United States is not a special case in a special period, but an irreversible historical trend that no one can change.
This is also why the United States is becoming increasingly "insane" in handling the China issue and has completely fallen into strategic anxiety. As for "thunder and rain", it refers to these issues hyped up by the United States and these groups pulled up, but in fact they are all "painting cakes to satisfy hunger" and cannot be implemented.
AUKUS of the United States, Britain and Australia was established in 2021, and now two and a half years have passed, and the biggest disturbance is that Australia has ordered several second-hand submarines from the United States at a high price. According to the news of the US Navy Association at the end of March, the Columbia-class nuclear submarines of the United States have been determined to delay the delivery, and how many resources can be allocated to AUKUS, which is a huge question mark.
China and the United States
As for pulling France and Germany to engage in the so-called "Seven-Nation Alliance" in space, it is pure performance art. If the United States really has this capability, the International Space Station will not be in the current state of being in a state of rotten waiting to be scrapped. If China's exploration of space is "looking up at the stars and keeping its feet on the ground", then the United States hyped up the space issue purely because it failed on other practical issues.
That's why I found a new angle, pretending that I could continue to "win, win, win" all the way, essentially wearing the emperor's new clothes. Not to mention the "seven-nation alliance", even if the "eight-nation alliance" is carried out, the United States will not be able to launch a second space station into space, and there will be no way to make the manned mission to the moon advance as scheduled. On the space issue, all the bravado of the United States will only expose its own external strength.
Up to now, in the big chess game of the Sino-US game, the United States has completely lost the lead, and only the road of "talking cannons" is left. However, even the "mouth cannon" will always be empty one day, and then the United States will probably only be able to show the world a joke.
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