Text/Sister Xiong
Blinken let out the wind early, saying that he would put pressure on China during his visit to China, demanding that China not fund the Russian military industry. The Americans, as a third party, want to blame the teachers for the development of Sino-Russian relations, and the Russians are not accustomed to them.
Recently, referring to news reports, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he expects Chinese leaders to visit Russia in October to attend the BRICS summit. In addition, he also said that Putin's visit to China will be a major event in the field of Sino-Russian bilateral relations this year.
(Lavrov)
Before the arrival of Blinken's plane, Lavrov invited the Chinese side to visit Russia, and this positive interaction between China and Russia is in stark contrast to the stumbling in Sino-US relations.
2024 will be Putin's 20th year as president, and he will also visit China for the 20th time, and may even make China the destination of his first foreign trip in the new term. This made him one of the "most familiar foreign heads of state" of the Chinese, and also highlighted the importance that Russia attaches to Sino-Russian relations.
Incidentally, if the Chinese leader attends the BRICS summit to be held in Russia in October, it will also form a complete interaction of "head-of-state diplomacy" between China and Russia, and once again play a strategic leading role in China-Russia bilateral relations. During his recent visit to China, Lavrov also specifically mentioned "head-of-state diplomacy," which shows that the Russian side really attaches great importance to interaction between the two sides at the highest level.
(Putin has visited China many times as president)
Although US President Joe Biden visited China when he was vice president, if he cannot be re-elected, he may become the first US president to fail to visit China during his term since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States - there is not much time left for Biden. I am afraid that this will also become a landmark event in China-US relations, which means that China-US relations are undergoing an unprecedented test since the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Of course, Biden's refusal to come to China is partly because the current political atmosphere in the United States is moving toward "extreme anti-China," which is not conducive to his official visit to China, and on the other hand, it is also because China and the United States are now a bit of a "talker and no speculation." In addition, the White House may also need to consider his physical factors, and at present, it seems that he will not visit China during this presidential term, which should be the result of a high probability.
(Biden visited China as vice president)
And this is not only the comparison of the bilateral relations between China and the United States and China and Russia, but also the different results of the different diplomatic strategies of China and the United States.
Americans still live in a small circle of "Cold War mentality" and are accustomed to proceeding from a "position of strength," dividing camps by ideology, and using hegemonism to open the way. The consequence of this is that the US has suffered successive setbacks in the diplomatic field in recent years. Whether it is the conflict between Russia and Ukraine or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the posture of the US side is slightly embarrassed, it has not only spent money, but also lost its name, and let the world see the double standard of the Americans again and again, which can be called "losing the wife and losing the army".
For example, in Sino-Russian relations this time, the Americans are still acting hegemonist, insisting on linking Sino-Russian relations with the Russia-Ukraine conflict, pointing fingers at China's diplomacy, but never mentioning their own role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This approach has even caused many American netizens to post condemnation, saying that the relationship between China and Russia "is not at all our turn to intervene in the Americans."
China, on the other hand, adheres to non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, builds and maintains multilateral cooperation platforms, and constructively resolves global and regional hotspot issues. For example, the BRICS summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are the best evidence of China's active participation in global governance, its proposals, and its objective, fair and balanced stance.
(Data map: SCO)
Two different kinds of diplomacy lead to two different endings. I believe the answer is self-evident.