Not long after Yellen left on the front foot, and a few days after Austin's phone call, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement saying that he would visit the mainland, less than a year after his last visit to China.
I feel that in the past two years, the number of high-level US leaders who have come to China is like a string of neighbors, and they don't stop at all, and their rhetoric is almost the same as colluding in advance, almost all of them are carved out of a board.
If the mainland does not give in, it will avoid points that cannot be agreed upon in the discussion, and eventually go back to trumpet the "China threat theory" with few achievements, which has almost become a fixed process.
Blinken's "Raising Teachers to Ask for Guilt"
In order to save face for the United States, the mainland also routinely and perfunctorily welcomed Blinken's visit, but Blinken seems to have come this time with the idea of "rejuvenating teachers and asking for guilt."
A few days ago, the United States began to deliberately hype up some completely untrue remarks, such as "China's military assistance to Russia has caused the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to be delayed" and "the exchange between China and Russia is a dangerous behavior with the meaning of military assistance." "Wait.
Their purpose in saying this is very simple, that is, to isolate China in public opinion.
"Look at him, he says that he loves peace, but in fact he is aiding Russia, the initiator of the war, in the conflict, it is too hypocritical!"
But in fact, we do business with Russia seriously, and they give us money to deliver goods, energy, rare metals, grain, civilian drones, and so on, isn't that quite normal? That's how we do business with Russia when there is no war.
You can't use these things in Russia for the military, you blame me for being a seller, right?
Not to mention, the United States really thinks so, they regard the normal trade between China and Russia as a means for China to transfuse blood for Russia, and then use this to create public opinion, with extremely sinister intentions.
However, the hegemony of the United States in the world is no longer what it used to be, and ordinary people around the world can learn the real situation through more software, rather than living under the control of American public opinion.
China is not afraid of shadows, and the United States' hand has not had any effect, so it sent Blinken to ask the blame to convey the Biden administration's concern about "Sino-Russian cooperation" to the mainland.
The meaning of this sentence is, to put it bluntly, that the United States wants us to have less dealings with Russia. Of course, the mainland will certainly not care about this purpose of the United States, you say what you say, I earn my money, and we will not delay each other.
In addition to "revitalizing the teacher and asking the guilt", I think Blinken must also have other purposes, he has released words, claiming to stay in China for four days, and you can't always talk about something that is impossible to achieve results in these four days, right?
Perhaps the United States' visit to China this time is also for the sake of U.S. bonds, this year the mainland continues to sell U.S. bonds, these days, another 22.7 billion U.S. dollars have been sold, which is missing, Americans' hearts are dripping blood, after the U.S. economic crisis in 2008, the mainland bought hundreds of billions of U.S. bonds to help them tide over the crisis.
But what are the consequences of helping the United States? Let them return to the Asia-Pacific region? Targeting China everywhere?
Now that the U.S. crisis has reappeared, we can't spare no effort to help the U.S. like in 08, so there is a high probability that there will be no result in the matter of U.S. debt.
A few days ago, the United States, in disregard of the mainland's opposition, buried landmines on the Philippine island of Luzon, and the mainland backhanded announced its support for Cuba's army building, which was quite a bit like the momentum of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Blinken is also likely to talk about this matter, but no matter what is discussed, the United States must show corresponding sincerity.
How can the United States be sincere?
The empty glove white wolf is what the United States is best at, first imposing a wave of sanctions on you for no reason, and then when there is something to ask you, it will lift part of the sanctions as the so-called "sincerity" to negotiate with others.
"Eh, you see that I came with such great sincerity, you can't give me a face?"
In the past, when the United States was at its peak, this trick was naturally easy to use, but it was before, and now it is now, everyone knows that you are about to become a sick tiger in the United States, and who will get used to you except those Western countries.
Therefore, if the United States wants to use the same routine to win China's cooperation this time, it will most likely not work.
Moreover, now that the United States has made the situation in the Asia-Pacific region so tense, Lai Qingde here has made a lot of moths come out before he takes office, and Marcos Jr. is even clamoring that if something happens in the Philippines, it will be an accident in the United States, and there is a momentum of "the master is here to target you, and if you don't accept it, you will do it."
Even Fumio Kishida dared to bluntly say that China is the enemy of the world, and who gave him the courage to do this?
It's also that Yin Xiyue is so anxious about his own affairs that he doesn't have time to take care of other things, otherwise I guess he will have to scold North Korea to refer to Sang and scold Huai.
In this situation, Blinken's choice to visit China is still violent, and as for what outcome can be negotiated in the end, it still depends on what attitude Blinken can show.
Again, we don't care who you are, we only care about what you can bring us.
If the United States continues to pay lip service to China, oppose it in the heart, and ask for help from China physically, it is estimated that there will be no strategic consensus, and at most it will pave the way for the next diplomacy between China and the United States.
In addition, when the Russian foreign minister, the Ethiopian foreign minister, and other friendly countries to China visited the mainland, they all received the highest reception on the mainland, and as for whether Blinken can get this kind of honor? I can't say, anyway, his last Pompeo did not receive the highest reception on the mainland.
To be honest, China really doesn't care much about the visit of the United States right now, and you want to come and talk to me about it? Okay, I'll talk to you; if you don't want to show sincerity, that's fine, as long as you don't delay me in doing business.
However, if you don't want to have a good relationship with me, and you disturb me doing business with others, and even slander me for doing illegal transactions with others, then don't blame people for not giving you face.
epilogue
What the United States has done so far has blurred the distinction between "competition" and "confrontation," and while saying that it does not seek confrontation with China, it has continued to bury hidden dangers one after another in China's periphery, and there is no doubt that the United States has not given up the idea of blockading China.
However, it is because China is now too powerful and has completely severed ties with the United States, so it has to find a way to defeat China in cooperation.
Reference: U.S. State Department: Blinken's visit to China wants to talk about Sino-Russian relations Observer.com