Recently, the United States has brought its "two-faced, three-knife" nature to the extreme, and has just had a wave of intimate interaction with China, talking about improving Sino-US relations, and then looking for various reasons to sanction six Chinese enterprises, which has directly led to a change in China's attitude towards China-US economic and trade relations.
A few days ago, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited China and asked the Chinese side for two things, dealing with the problem of "overcapacity" and not allowing Russia to help. Not only did the Chinese side not agree to any of them, but advised the United States to seize the opportunity of the vigorous development of China's high-quality production capacity, and told the American side that China has the right to cooperate normally with Russia.
The U.S. side is not convinced, Biden has made a commitment of "six noes and one no", but in addition to improving Sino-US relations, he has not gotten anything he wants, so the U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned six Chinese companies on the grounds of "national security" and related factors related to Russia and Iran. Citing six provisions of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, China has imposed sanctions on two US companies that have been selling arms to Taiwan for a long time, not only prohibiting their senior executives from entering the country, but also freezing all kinds of assets of the two companies in China.
Not only that, but there was also a rare scene in the Ministry of Commerce. On the 11th, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference. A reporter asked, after Yellen's visit to China, "is Sino-US economic and trade relations expected to stabilize for a period of time?" spokesman He Yadong unusually did not give any explanation on the results of Yellen's visit to China and the consensus between China and the United States, and did not answer this question positively. He only talked about his expectations for the future, saying that he hoped that China and the United States would work together to implement the important consensus reached at the meeting and phone call between the two heads of state and promote the development of Sino-US economic and trade relations.
The United States has recently fallen into a contradictory mentality toward China, on the one hand, the Biden administration wants to improve relations with China, for which Biden himself has added two additional commitments, and also quickly finalized the visit to China by two senior officials, the Secretary of Finance and the Secretary of State. But on the other hand, the US is afraid of China's real rise and is sparing no effort to promote and build the so-called "Indo-Pacific strategy", as evidenced by the upgraded comprehensive partnership between the US and Japan and the upcoming US-Japan-Philippines summit.
Contradictory mentality determines contradictory behavior, and the US cannot help but be worried when the US sanctions are flaunting its teeth and claws, and the Chinese side shows its disappointment with the US side and offers countermeasures. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to ask China to help dissuade Iran from its impending large-scale counteroffensive.
China, Russia, and Iran are all mainstays of the anti-US hegemonic camp, and the United States has always believed that China and Russia and Iran have an unusually close relationship, and after the outbreak of the Red Sea crisis, the United States has on several occasions allowed China to exert its influence over Iran and ask Iran to pressure the Houthis to stop attacking fishing boats coming and going at sea.
Among the six Chinese companies sanctioned this time, one of them suffered an unwarranted disaster because it violated the U.S. sanctions Iran Act and purchased aviation parts for an Iranian aircraft company. Blinken just took advantage of this wave of Middle East situation to make a phone call, first, to ask China to take action to contain the current Iranian counteroffensive, and second, to test China's current attitude towards the United States.
Blinken will be the second senior U.S. official to visit China after Yellen, and he is also shouldering the important task of easing Sino-US relations and acting as a bridge of communication. Correspondingly, China will follow through on the motto of "listen to what they say and watch what they do", so whether the ballast stone of China-US economic and trade relations is stable or not depends on the performance of the United States.