The news of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming visit to China has been confirmed, and the main topics have also been basically determined, and the US State Department has released news that Blinken will soon have a good chat with the Chinese side about Sino-Russian relations. The United States and Europe are hyping up the topic of Sino-Russian cooperation, and the overwhelming "China's aid to Russia" and "China-Russia threat theory" have created a momentum for Blinken, and there will be rumors in the United States that the United States may impose "comprehensive blockade sanctions" on Chinese companies that have been "identified".
A few days ago, US State Department spokesman Miller "briefed" Blinken's visit to China, claiming that the United States was worried about "China's help in building Russia's defense industrial base". Recently, the US intelligence agencies have been chasing the wind, saying that Chinese companies have not only exported a large number of dual-use products such as drones, machinery and equipment, and integrated circuit systems to Russia, but also transported some materials for the establishment of industrial bases.
The United States believes that with these "assistance" from China, Russia has the ability to rebuild its defense industry and produce weapons for use in the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, which has escalated the already unoptimistic Ukraine crisis. Based on the above knowledge and speculation, Blinken's visit to China will focus on the issue of "Sino-Russian cooperation".
After the "word-making" ended, the United States and the West began the second step of "building momentum". On the 18th local time, Dombrovskis, executive vice president of the European Commission, claimed that it had been found that China was supplying parts to Russia that could be used to make weapons. China takes a neutral stance and does not add to the chaos or provoke the escalation of the situation.
After laying the groundwork for public opinion, Blinken's visit to China has become a "messenger of justice". According to Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" local time on April 17, the famous anti-China congressman Conor Gallagher proposed a bipartisan bill called the "No Restrictions Act" on the same day, which stipulates that for those Chinese military enterprises identified by the United States, the United States will give them 180 days to withdraw from the Russian market on their own, and if any company is identified as providing assistance to Russia, it will face the United States' "comprehensive blockade sanctions".
This bill may seem absurd, but if you think about it, it was actually the signal sent by Yellen during her visit to China, when Yellen warned that Chinese companies aiding Russia would face "serious consequences". In the two years since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US has continuously concocted the so-called false news about China's aid to Russia, and threatened China several times not to aid Russia.
Until February this year, the EU sanctioned three Chinese companies for the first time due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, marking the transformation and upgrading of the United States and the West's actions against China-Russia cooperation. According to the previous style of the United States, I am afraid that this so-called "unlimited bill" will become a reality sooner or later. There is a reason why the United States suddenly put the so-called "aid to Russia" on the table.
According to statistics, the United States and the West have imposed more than 20,000 economic sanctions on Russia in the past two years, but the Russian economy has only experienced a brief decline in 2022, and has since stabilized at a much faster growth rate than expected. The IMF even predicts that Russia's economic growth will surpass that of the G7 this year.
The United States and the West have almost tried their best to suppress and contain Russia, but the hot war cannot be fought, the trade war still cannot be fought, Russia is getting braver and stronger, but the United States and the West are fighting more and more decadent, and the more chaotic they are, before a full-scale collapse, the United States decided to take a risk. Russia's current foreign economic and trade activities have basically completed the shift from the United States and Europe to the East, the bilateral trade volume and the settlement rate of local currencies between China and Russia have repeatedly reached new highs, and dismantling Sino-Russian cooperation is the most cost-effective and profitable approach, so the United States will certainly do its best this time to protect its hegemonic status and national fortunes.
In early April, Blinken held a meeting with the foreign ministers of the European Union and NATO, claiming that China is providing assistance to Russia on a "worrying scale", and he asked the EU to mention "Sino-Russian cooperation" in its contacts with China and support sanctions against companies that aid Russia. The EU clearly feels that the United States attaches great importance to and hypes about "China's aid to Russia" to a new height, which indicates that the purpose of Blinken's trip is by no means simple, and China must prepare in advance to deal with possible sanctions bills.