Recently, China has become a piece of "sweet and sweet," and many countries have sent representatives to visit China one after another, and even the United States and Russia have also come one after another. However, there is a very interesting phenomenon in this, some people have noticed that for the arrival of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, China chose "agreed by both China and the United States" as the descriptive language, and when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited, China changed the descriptive language to "at the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi". In contrast, one is invited to come, and the other is only available after discussion, which is really full of taste.
It is not that China deliberately treats China differently, and as a country of etiquette, China naturally will not lose any country that wants to be friendly with China in terms of etiquette. However, it must be admitted that China and Russia are often more able to agree on many positions, while there will always be differences between China and the United States. It is reported that Yellen's visit to China this time unsurprisingly mentioned the so-called "overcapacity", but the Chinese side made it clear that it cannot politicize the handling of economic and trade issues such as production capacity, and stressed that this is against market fairness and will damage the stable development of the world economy. In stark contrast, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov had a much more pronounced and harmonious conversation, with the two sides exchanging views not only on international and regional issues of common concern, but also on how to develop relations between China and Russia in the future.
It is worth mentioning that before Yellen left China, Lavrov was invited to come and had a good conversation with China, which made American politicians very uneasy. For this reason, Yellen directly warned China that if it dares to "aid Russia", it will wait for serious consequences and sanctions. On the one hand, it is afraid that China's real aid to Russia will affect the layout of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, and on the other hand, it is very eager to grasp the pigtail of China's aid to Russia, or it is very much hoping to catch the slightest sign of ambiguity, so that China can be labeled as "aiding Russia", so that it can unite with other countries to crusade against China.
It must be noted that China has never been afraid of smears from the United States, but it will not tolerate outsiders arbitrarily accusing itself. In response to China-Russia relations in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, China refuted the US accusations with three "should nots". The Chinese side stressed that China-Russia relations will adhere to the principle of "non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of any third party", and deliberately mentioned that it is not easy for China and Russia to have good relations today, and both China and Russia will cherish and meticulously safeguard this.
Of course, China is not a country that is indifferent and wants to see the excitement. On the issue of the war between Russia and Ukraine, China has indeed taken an objective attitude, paid attention to a fair position, and strived to be partial and not profiteous. However, considering that there are many points of convergence of interests between China and Russia, and China does not want to see Russia being besieged and contained by the United States and other Western countries because of its war with Ukraine, China is willing to support each other with Russia and jointly break through the Western encirclement, so as to return to the previous stable state of cooperation at an early date.
The implication is that even if China does not take substantive actions to "aid Russia", it can help Russia to retreat from the encirclement. Recently, Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a new idea of "common resistance" to Lavrov, saying that state-to-state exchanges should open up a new line, and this line should pursue the principle of "dialogue, non-confrontation, partnership and non-alignment", and China and Russia should make sufficient efforts to promote this line. As clever as Lavrov is a little bit clear, he immediately decided that the next step is to work with other countries in the "Global South" to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and promote a fairer and more just international order.
Seeing that China is ignoring US warnings and getting closer to Russia, US politicians can no longer stabilize their mentality, and Campbell, in particular, has gone so far as to draw a red line for China and Russia in a panic, saying that such close exchanges between China and Russia are threatening the "core interests" of the United States, and he has even compared the sensitivity of this matter to the dispute between the mainland and Taiwan. However, Campbell's doing so will only expose the consistent style of the United States to speak without drafts, you must know that before he spoke, Biden had just made a series of commitments with the Chinese top level to improve Sino-US relations, and Campbell slapped his boss in the face this time.