Whether it is to talk about business or friends, whether the other party is sincere or not is a prerequisite for us to judge whether the transaction can be done and whether the person can deal with it. Regrettably, China's fine cultural heritage seems to be unworthy of mention in the Biden administration's "non-reciprocal diplomacy", which also casts a shadow over US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China this week. Although from the current point of view, Biden's recent series of unfriendly behaviors towards China are most likely not necessarily related to Blinken's trip, but they have given the outside world a very bad "impression". In particular, after the $95 billion aid package just passed by the US House of Representatives has explicitly included direct assistance to the "Taiwan independence forces," the US side has even blatantly touched China's most sensitive bottom line. What is the sincerity of this kind of domineering behavior of giving you a "dismount" before meeting?
According to media reports, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to China on April 24-26 and meet with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing. Unlike the previous visit to China by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, this meeting is more about clarifying the basic position of the US policy towards China in the future and avoiding "miscalculation" between the two countries on the issues of Russia and Ukraine, the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. However, in terms of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's personal visit to China, China's attitude has always been warm and friendly, and we are willing to engage in maximum consultation and exchange with the US side, even though Western analysts have almost always predicted that the next talks "will not make any significant progress."
1. The U.S. House of Representatives Passes $95 Billion in Foreign Aid, Explicitly Providing "Direct Military Aid" to Taiwan
As the saying goes, global strategy is a game of chess, and the United States, as a veteran of the "political chess game," has no "superfluous" move against China. In particular, Biden and the Democrats, who have obvious attributes of "white-faced Cao Cao", pay more attention to the consistency and coherence of their China policies when "playing against China", and have always scoffed at Trump and the Republicans' overly straightforward and unstrategic China policies. Let's not talk about it from a distance, just look at the recent "stuck" passage of $95 billion in foreign aid by the US House of Representatives, which shows the sinister intentions of the Biden administration.
Of course, there may be objections that the passage of the US Foreign Aid Act has been shelved for several months, and even if it was passed "just in time" before Blinken's visit to China, it is likely to be a coincidence, and the two are not necessarily directly related. There is only one answer to this idea that may exist on the Internet, and that is not to believe in any so-called "coincidences" in seemingly unexpected political events, because these can actually be "pre-arranged". Especially when the ending of the script is more conducive to maximizing the interests of the United States, the Republican Party is also happy to cooperate with the Democratic Party to "play this drama well." It is reported that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $61 billion aid bill to Ukraine last Saturday (April 20) with 311 votes in favor and 112 votes against. It was accompanied by $26 billion in humanitarian aid for civilians in Israel, Gaza and other conflict areas, and more than $8 billion in aid to the Indo-Pacific.
Among them, the most unacceptable to China is the "2024 Indo-Pacific Security Supplementary Appropriations Act", which aims to provide more than $8 billion for "Indo-Pacific security", because the bill clearly stipulates that the US government will allocate $8.12 billion to deal with "Chinese mainland's actions in the Indo-Pacific region", which directly covers $3.3 billion for the development of US submarine infrastructure and $2 billion for "foreign military financing" to Taiwan and other major allies and $1.9 billion to supplement the Pentagon's spending on defense goods and services to regional partners such as Taiwan. Considering that Taiwan Province of China will be appointed as the "governor" of Taiwan Province of China in May this year, the United States can completely regard these US aid payments to Taiwan as support for the "Taiwan independence forces," which the Chinese side does not want to see in any case.
The "double standards" of the United States in the international community have always been very serious, so much so that they have done all the bad things in the open and in secret, giving people a sense of "schizophrenia." For example, on the occasion of Blinken's upcoming second visit to China, he warned Beijing not to assist in Russia's war against Ukraine. Let's not mention that China has never taken sides in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and its economic cooperation with Russia and Ukraine is limited to the civilian level. Now the United States is stepping up its aid to Ukraine, directly increasing its weight by 61 billion, and on the other hand, it is biting China back, insisting on giving us a charge of "secretly" aiding Russia, which is very "hegemonist" and "power politics".
In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning directly responded at a recent regular press conference: "China is not the creator and party to the Ukraine crisis, and we have not and will not do anything to benefit from it." What is even more infuriating and funny is that while the Americans are "pouring dirty water" and "buttoning their hats" on China, they have openly made a series of acts of sending government officials to Taiwan to visit Taiwan and provide aid to Taiwan in disregard of the opposition of China and the international community. What is certain is that the United States will send an "unofficial delegation" to Lai's inauguration ceremony on May 20, including former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Laura Rosenberg, president of the American Institute in Taiwan.
Second, the speech of the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Harvard, was interrupted by "pro-American elements", and "American-style democracy" is very "hegemonic".
Just as in physics the role of forces is mutual, so is respect between the two countries in politics. However, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China this time obviously had too much malicious "foreplay", which made the atmosphere of the whole meeting extremely bad. In particular, when Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng went to Harvard University's Kennedy School to deliver a speech on 20 April, he was maliciously obstructed and interrupted by "pro-US elements" on three occasions.
By tarnishing China's image in the international community, vigorously hyping up the so-called "China threat theory", and equating the "anti-China" and "patriotic" of the American people, in exchange for votes by stimulating domestic nationalism, this is the core intention of the Biden administration's recent series of unfriendly actions towards China. As for the rude "pro-Americans" at Xie Feng's speech, their true identities are more likely to be the "splashes who smashed the scene" specially invited by the Biden administration, but let's call them pathetic "victims" who have been brainwashed by American political propaganda for a long time. You must know that the content of Xie Feng's speech that day did not involve any ideological confrontation, and the whole text was calling on China and the United States to improve bilateral relations by deepening cooperation, which obviously has a positive effect on creating a harmonious atmosphere for high-level meetings between the two sides at the time of Blinken's upcoming visit to China. However, it was China's goodwill that was exchanged for bad words from the other side.
According to a number of Western media reports, just when Xie Feng touched on the core issue in his speech at Harvard, making it clear that China and the United States should cooperate to improve relations despite "facing serious challenges" on a series of issues, the scene did not know why. These demonstrators did not shy away from raising many issues that hurt China's feelings, and shouted brainwashing slogans such as "freedom and democracy". After being interrupted by demonstrators three times, Xie Feng had to improvise by adding an "on-site interactive session", and in his subsequent speech, he talked about Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet mentioned by the three demonstrators. In this regard, he publicly stressed: "If the United States continues to interfere in China's internal affairs and harm China's interests in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and the South China Sea, no matter how many 'guardrails' are installed, we will not be able to maintain the bottom line of bilateral relations." Obviously, the so-called "American-style democracy" has never been a reason for US hegemonism to openly interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and sow discord.
"American-style democracy" has always been very "hegemonic" because their democracy is only related to the four big words "American interests" and can be regarded as a kind of "narrow democracy" and "democracy of white Americans". This also explains why blacks and Chinese Americans are treated unfairly in the United States, triggering the "Movement for the Same Destiny" of blacks and the "gun buying frenzy" of Chinese Americans in the United States, because the lives of these "colored races" do not receive the same attention from the American legal system and society, let alone other more "high-level" democratic and human rights. And when we look at the international community, the hypocrisy of "American-style democracy" is even more outrageous. This can't help but make us wonder if the Biden administration is now disregarding "democracy and human rights" in Gaza and continuing to provide Israel with a large amount of military aid for ethnic cleansing and massacres of civilians, where are those "freedom defenders" who once flaunted the superiority of Western democracy? Where are those "nationalists" who paid attention to fairness, justice, and openness in the international community when the United States bypassed the UN Security Council with only a bag of "washing powder" and brazenly sent troops to Iraq?
If we follow the logic of bandits like the United States, can China also pass the "California Aid Act" to actively promote the independence of California citizens from US rule in the form of an independence referendum? Should China also shout "Down with US imperialism" and "US imperialism is a paper tiger" in the audience when US politicians give speeches in China? The reason why we do not do so is because China has always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace that does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and our foreign policy has always valued peace." defensive" policy. But this does not mean that Chinese will be silently "bullied" by the Americans, and they will accompany the Biden administration to complete their "farce of visiting China". This kind of behavior of "subduing" China on the surface and proposing peace talks, but in private "making tricks" and smashing the field, in the words of the Chinese high-level at the Sino-US talks in Alaska, means that "we Chinese have never eaten this set."
China "welcomes" Blinken's visit to China, but the Biden administration's recent actions are "insincere". These include the passage by the US House of Representatives of the Taiwan Direct Military Assistance Act, the blatant proposal to send government officials to Taiwan, the high-profile formation of an "Asian mini-NATO" between the United States, Japan, and the Philippines, and the deployment of the "Typhon Intermediate-Range Missile Weapon System" on Philippine islands at a time when the United States and the Philippines are conducting joint military exercises "shoulder to shoulder," which directly threaten the security of China's southeastern coastal zone and the sensitive South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. As the saying goes, people are doing it, and the sky is watching, and the "first island chain" encirclement deployed by the Biden administration against China can be described as "beginning to take shape". Against such a political backdrop, do you still think that Blinken's visit to China is aimed at subduing China and promoting peace talks?
As a matter of fact, for an "old fox" like the United States, we must always see clearly what it has done to China, not just listen to what they say. When they "clean their hands and feet" will consultations and dialogues with China really be meaningful. At present, the Biden administration's China policy is still in the stage of "political catwalk", and its purpose is nothing more than to turn the China issue into its own votes. For this reason, while the international community assumed that the United States was soft on China and pretended to be "sincere," and after the meeting had "achieved little results," they immediately issued an anti-China press release prepared in advance to the media, vigorously proclaiming that China is "toasting and not eating and punishing," and calling on all Western allies of the United States to "unite" against China's "dictatorial and autocratic system."
On the other hand, Biden's killer moves against China are no less, which can be described as "fists to the flesh, feet and feet", and even does not hesitate to "cut sausages" with China on the bottom line issue, trying to include South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines in a new round of encirclement of China, like an evil python, entwining and squeezing China's Asia-Pacific activity space. From this, we can see that the Americans did not show much sincerity in talking with the Chinese side!
In the long run, the current global situation is surging, China is still in an important stage of development, and we need a stable external environment to support its own development. Therefore, it is absolutely beneficial for China and the United States to be able to sit down and talk at this time. War has a huge negative impact on China and the United States and even on all mankind in the world, and managing differences is undoubtedly the best choice before the contradictions intensify to the point that "we must fight". Of course, although China and the United States are currently stepping up exchanges and dialogues, we must not relax our vigilance against our own national security, and it is necessary for China to let the United States clearly understand China's confidence and determination to safeguard its sovereign territory, and it is necessary for the United States to know that "China's sovereignty issue cannot be negotiated." In particular, on many issues of common concern between China and the United States, if the United States refuses to show due sincerity and continue to hold more talks with China with a "dagger", then the wine that China welcomes friends can be exchanged for a hunting rifle against jackals, tigers and leopards at any time!