Text/Sister Xiong
On April 18, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian answered a question about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China. On the whole, the Chinese side welcomes Blinken to China, but the attitude is not warm, and the words are meaningful. In particular, when the American reporter asked clearly what China expects, Lin Jian said that "there is no better information to provide", which is still in clear contrast with China's attitude when welcoming the foreign ministers of Russia and other countries to China.
(Lin Jian presided over the press conference)
But we can't be blamed either. After all, before the Blinken people arrived, they had already released rumors that they wanted to ask the Chinese Xingshi for their crimes, but they used completely unfounded reasons. Even many American netizens lamented that China's temper is so good, if the roles are reversed, I am afraid that the United States will not let the visitors get off the plane.
(There are only two sentences)
According to a number of foreign media reports, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will start his visit to China on April 23 and will stay in China for four days. It stands to reason that the main purpose of Blinken's visit to China this time is to continue to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, ensure that the results of the San Francisco summit can be continued, and should play a positive role in promoting China-US relations. However, since "anti-China" is politically correct in the United States today, Blinken naturally cannot clearly state this purpose, but must clearly express his "will not be pro-China" attitude before visiting China.
(Blinken steps off the plane)
Therefore, before the visit to China, the United States had already released public opinion that Blinken intended to ask China for his guilt, and also set up a rumor-based topic, that is, to express so-called "concern" about the normal cooperation between China and Russia.
Although the Pentagon has given an answer diametrically opposed to the White House's so-called "China's military assistance to Russia", that is, China has not provided military aid to Russia, the Americans say that this matter is actually "a drunkard's intention is not to drink." They don't care what the facts are, they just want to find an excuse to point fingers at China. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, they began to slander China, describing the normal cooperation between China and Russia as "China's support for the development of Russia's military industry".
However, we will certainly not accept this kind of accusation, so if Blinken wants to make this one of the main topics of his visit to China, China and the United States may only be able to talk more than half a sentence, and eventually become a "frank (there are big differences, each side has its own words), in-depth (touching on sensitive issues), and constructive (there is no substantive progress, we will talk about it next time)", just like the previous visit of the US Deputy Secretary of State to China.
(Putin inspects Russian tank factory)
In fact, this is also an old problem of the US government.
In today's U.S. political ecology, whoever promotes the good development of Sino-US relations seems to be the sinner of the United States. Therefore, even if politicians travel thousands of miles to China to have face-to-face exchanges with the Chinese side, they will always put on a condescending posture and use "passivity" to hedge when there is a slight progress in Sino-US relations.
For example, Yellen's previous visit to China made it clear that China had "overcapacity" before she left, and during her visit to China, she made more negative accusations against China than had positive exchanges, gave Chinese companies a tough threat before leaving, and pulled six Chinese companies into the "blacklist" after returning to China. In addition, the Chinese and US defense ministers had just finished a telephone call, and the next day, a US military reconnaissance plane flew over the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, before and after Blinken's visit to China, the US side is likely to make similar hostile moves, so that China-US relations will continue to develop amid twists and turns.
(U.S. military aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait)
Nearly a year has passed since Blinken's last visit to China, during which Sino-US relations have been at a relatively low point, and Biden may even become the first president since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States without visiting China during his term of office. If it is said that many countries around the world have lined up to visit China since the beginning of the spring because of the "certainty" that China has brought to the world, then US diplomacy is injecting more "uncertainty" into the world, and Blinken, as the "number one" of US diplomacy, is one of the sources of this "uncertainty". Therefore, the Chinese side probably does not have too high expectations for him during his visit to China, and as for the "reception at the highest level" that the US side is looking forward to, it will depend on how well the United States performs.