He came, he came, he came with a "purpose".
Following U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's visit to China earlier this month, another important U.S. figure "Secretary of State Blinken" recently announced that he would decide to visit China next Tuesday (23rd).
However, Brother Li dared to conclude that Blinken's choice of this time to visit China urgently at this time can be described as "not a good comer".
You must know that US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, US Assistant Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific Affairs Conda, and White House National Security Council Senior Director for Cross-Strait Affairs Beshalan have just left.
First, let's talk about Yellen's visit to China.
This is the highest-ranking official in the United States to visit China since the Biden administration took office, however, Yellen's visit did not achieve any substantive results, but caused dissatisfaction and disgust. The reason is that during Yellen's visit to China, she not only made a series of unreasonable demands on China, but also tried to divide the Chinese government and people.
Although, the main purpose of Yellen's trip is to ease the economic and trade friction between China and the United States, and at the same time seek support from China to continue to buy US Treasury bonds.
For now, the United States is facing a serious fiscal crisis and needs to rely on money printing and borrowing to keep the economy afloat, and China is one of the largest creditors of the United States and one of its most important trading partners.
So, Yellen hopes to persuade China to ease restrictions on U.S. products and services, as well as increase purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds.
But Yellen did not show any sincerity or respect. During her visit to China, she not only frequently accused China of manipulating the exchange rate, engaging in unfair trade, violating human rights, and threatening regional security, but also demanded that China further open its markets, protect intellectual property rights, reduce carbon emissions, and strengthen financial regulation.
There is no doubt that these demands were made by the United States in order to safeguard its hegemony and interests, and did not take into account China's actual situation and development needs.
Moreover, these demands are put forward in the context of "the United States continues to suppress China, forcibly cut off all high-end semiconductor supply chains and equipment in China globally in high technology, put countless Chinese universities and enterprises on the supply blacklist, and constantly requires foreign companies to move out of China and relocate factories to other countries".
This is simply a despicable practice of "asking for money and life".
What's even infuriating is that Yellen is also trying to divide the Chinese government and the Chinese people.
During her visit to China, at a dinner party, she specially emphasized at the dinner table: "Although China and the United States have differences, the United States has always been friendly to the Chinese people. ”
Obviously, she is trying in vain to divide China into a government and a people, and at the same time advocating that the Chinese people should support the United States' position of suppressing China, and demand that the Chinese people stand up against the government.
What a vicious trick!
This practice is not only disrespectful and a serious provocation to the Chinese government, but also an insult and misleading to the Chinese people.
She completely ignored the fact that "the Chinese government represents the fundamental interests and will of the Chinese people, and the Chinese people firmly support the government in defending national sovereignty, interests and dignity."
After Yellen's visit to China "empty-handed", Biden sent two senior officials to visit China next. One of them is Assistant Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific Affairs at the US State Department, and the other is Beshalan, senior director of cross-strait affairs at the White House National Security Council.
What signal does the United States want to send to the outside world?
There may be three considerations.
First, the United States wants to maintain cooperation with China. Because Yellen's visit to China involved at least four days of high-level economic talks, but "almost no results were achieved", this must have made the Biden administration anxious.
After all, there is still more than half a year to go before the quadrennial US presidential election, and Biden needs to add another stroke to his political achievements.
If we can reach new cooperation with China in the economic and trade fields, on the one hand, we can alleviate the current economic problems in the United States, and on the other hand, we can win Biden himself some support.
Second, from a diplomatic point of view, the visit of senior US officials to China may pave the way for Blinken's upcoming visit to China in advance.
The U.S. State Department announcement said that Kangda and Beshalan will meet with Chinese officials during their visit to China, which is most likely to be a pre-arrangement for the next phase of high-level interaction between China and the United States.
And judging from past experience, after the last visit to China by Kangda and others, Blinken also set off for a visit to China immediately after, and this time it is naturally similar.
Third, judging from the recent international background, the heads of state of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines just held a so-called "historic" trilateral summit in Washington a few days ago.
Based on this, the United States has now sent another high-level official to visit China, with the great intention of easing tensions with China.
All along, the United States has been accustomed to using this kind of double-standard trick in handling its relations with China, while trying to win over its allies to contain China in practical actions, and on the other hand, seeking "friendly" contacts with China at the diplomatic level to avoid miscalculation.
However, since it is to avoid miscalculation, the most important thing for the United States to do is to respect China's security concerns, be cautious in words and deeds on key issues related to China's core interests, and use concrete actions to repair mutual trust between China and the United States, instead of saying one thing and doing another.
Finally, let's discuss Blinken's upcoming trip to China.
In view of the fact that the strategic focus of the United States has shifted to the Middle East, it is not difficult to foresee that Blinken, who is about to visit China, will most likely not only come to improve US-China relations, but also talk about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Middle East conflict, which are closely related to US interests after all.
From the perspective of U.S. interests, Blinken naturally hopes that China will openly oppose Russia, and it is better to cut ties with Russia in economic and trade exchanges. Of course, this is just a trick of "promoting talks by fighting"; after all, trade between China and Russia is a normal trade relationship that conforms to international trade regulations, and the United States has no right to interfere.
More importantly, the conflict in the Middle East is on the verge of spiraling out of control, and the Swiss peace summit will be ushered in in June, and the climax of the US election will be ushered in in November, so there is good reason to judge that the Biden team hopes that China will be a peacemaker based on the re-election campaign, and persuade Iran not to escalate the situation. At the same time, it is also building momentum for the Swiss peace summit in June.
Brother Youli said that if Blinken's visit to China is still a fake game, it is not surprising that he will also "get nothing".
People interact with each other, but they still pay attention to sincerity, let alone countries?