Blinken's visit to China on April 24 has become a diplomatic event of global attention, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it clear that Blinken's visit to China is at the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and from the 24th to the 26th, the main purpose of Blinken's visit to China has long been guessed by the outside world, which is nothing more than the Middle East issue, the Russia-Ukraine issue, the Taiwan Strait issue, and the South China Sea issue. At the same time, U.S. officials said they hoped that Blinken would remind China not to "provoke" during Lai's inauguration.
However, Blinken's visit to China is very unpopular, in fact, it is very understandable that with the current Sino-US relations, even if the United States has frequently sent high-ranking officials to visit China in the past month, creating a phenomenon for the outside world to ease relations between the two countries, but the so-called easing of relations between the United States is completely insincere, the front foot said well, the back foot stabbed China in the back, either sanctioning Chinese enterprises, or doing things around China, the Chinese have long seen through the US routine.
In this case, it is strange that Blinken's visit to China was treated, and it can also be seen from other aspects that Blinken's visit to China was "invited", not agreed upon by both sides, and this is a general visit to China, and compared with the Malaysian Foreign Minister's visit to China at the same time, it is definitely not as good as an official visit in terms of Blinken's reception specifications.
And the Chinese side is not enthusiastic about Blinken's visit to China, the United States announced the details of Blinken's visit to China on the 21st, and the Chinese side announced it on the 22nd, the most important thing is that the visit to China was requested by the United States, or Biden took the initiative to request, China is to give Biden face, obviously the United States is asking for China, Yellen's previous visit to China is likely to be China's failure to agree.
However, even if the United States takes the initiative, the United States has never stopped making trouble. Blinken's visit to China has long been decided, but what has the United States done in April? The summit of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines discussed joint containment of China and strengthened its containment of China. On 15 April, the United States announced that it had deployed an intermediate-range ballistic missile system in the Philippines, which is sufficient to cover all areas in eastern and southeastern China, seriously threatening the mainland's defense and security. On 20 July, the US aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt approached Scarborough Shoal and was tracked and monitored by our destroyers and electronic reconnaissance ships.
On April 20, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill, including $8 billion to aid Asia-Pacific allies, with the aim of containing China. In addition, the bill also involves China, requiring ByteDance to sell Tik Tok to the United States, otherwise its business in the United States will be blocked. On the 22nd, the United States, the Philippines, Australia and France conducted an exercise in the South China Sea, with a total of 17,000 people. At the same time, during the military exercises of the four countries of the United States and the Philippines, the commander of the Russian Navy visited China, once again demonstrating to the outside world that China and Russia have a high degree of strategic mutual trust.
These actions can be understood as the United States building momentum for Blinken's visit to China and putting pressure on China. In addition to the well-known topics, the core of Blinken's visit to China is "a series of bilateral, regional and global issues", which is the most fundamental.
In fact, it is very easy to say that from the standpoint of both sides, they do not want the situation in the Middle East to escalate further, in which case oil and gold will skyrocket, which is very unfavorable to China, which needs to import a large amount of crude oil every year. And if it continues to escalate, the United States is likely to be pulled down by Israel, which the United States does not want to see, the United States is not sure, and the second is not ready, for the United States, the most important thing is undoubtedly the domestic election, the Middle East issue, may give a final deal after the election.
The Russia-Ukraine issue is nothing more than that the United States does not want China to help Russia, and when Yellen visited China before, she threatened China that Chinese companies would not be allowed to provide parts for the Russian military industry, otherwise Chinese companies would be sanctioned. This time, Blinken is bound to put pressure on China, and China still does not provide "military aid" to Russia, but from the perspective of the upper echelons of the United States, China objectively helps Russia rebuild its "national defense and military industry" through civilian exports, and private enterprises provide parts for the Russian military industry, which is not allowed.
At the previous G7 foreign ministers' summit, the United States joined forces with Europe to once again hype up "exporting dual-use materials, parts and components to support Russia's war machine." At present, with the United States' $61 billion aid to Ukraine, Europe may also increase its aid to Ukraine, so that the situation between Russia and Ukraine will inevitably escalate again, which is why the United States continues to exaggerate that Russia "poses a threat" to European security.
However, in the face of joint pressure from the United States and Europe, China withstood the pressure, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: Today's good relations between China and Russia are not easy to come by, and they deserve to be cherished and carefully maintained by both sides, and it can be regarded as a reassurance to Putin, who is about to visit China.
As for the Taiwan Strait issue, the South China Sea issue is a cliché, and we do not believe in the US commitments, and we do not need to look at what they say. On May 20, Lai Qingde held an inaugural speech, and Blinken's visit to China will definitely talk about this, and it is possible to warn the Chinese side not to make trouble during Lai Qingde's inauguration. Taiwan is China's internal affair, and it is not the turn of US officials to intervene.
Similarly in the South China Sea, at the previous summit of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines, the policy that had been established, from the deployment of intermediate-range missile systems in the Philippines to frequent military exercises, shows that the United States is determined to make trouble in the South China Sea, and all we can do is to be fully prepared. Moreover, at the G7 foreign ministers' summit just past, Blinken said that the seven countries have the same position on the Russia-Ukraine issue, the South China Sea issue, and the Taiwan Strait issue, which is obviously forcing China and Russia.
It can be said that the purpose of Blinken's visit to China is well known to the Chinese side, and even the next step of the United States, the Chinese side may have prepared a predetermined response, and we will no longer believe in the United States' commitments, we will only see what the United States has achieved. Blinken's visit to China will also have an important impact on China-US relations and global hotspot issues in the next few years, but if the United States continues to pursue global containment of China and Russia, the future global situation is still not optimistic.
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