On April 24, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his second visit to China. Blinken's visit to China was the first to hear his voice, and the Chinese side has rarely responded in a-for-tat response through advance briefings by foreign ministry officials. Let's take a look at the phoenix -
Comparing Blinken's two visits to China in one year, not only have the friction points not decreased, but new points of controversy and sharp issues have surfaced, and fermented on time before and after Blinken and Yellen's visits to China, including the so-called "overcapacity" and "China continues to provide Russia with key technologies and products to support Russia's industrial reconstruction".
These are all the side effects that have arisen after the San Francisco meeting, creating new bargaining chips to put pressure on the Chinese side, and in essence, "dealing with China from a position of strength", which is a form of communication that the Chinese side is extremely disgusted with.
Blinken and Yellen visited China twice, with Blinken taking the lead last year and Yellen accompanying them. This year, Yellen started and Blinken came later. Judging from the interval, it was about two weeks apart.
The first task of Blinken's visit to China last year was to pave the way from Bali to San Francisco and facilitate a remeeting of the heads of state on the home side of the United States, in part to the Chinese side.
Yellen's visit to China this year was reversed, and the controversial issues were first raised by Yellen, who has a more professional academic background, which can be understood as "making a ball" for Blinken, which is a high-profile version of paving the way.
The US side arranged for Yellen, who seems to have more academic authority and image, to take the lead in attacking China, and then the secretary of state to take over the baton, creating a narrative in the United States that "whoever is better able to deal with China will be better able to protect the interests of Americans". Externally, it creates a discourse trap, kidnaps allies, and turns the so-called "overcapacity theory" and "assist the Russian military industry" into a pretext for trade weapons and even financial sanctions against China. In the U.S. election year, the showdown between Biden and Trump started early, and the two sides played the "China card" without a bottom line.
Biden is destined to become the president who did not make a visit to China in his first term, and whether he will have a second term is up in the air, and his appeal to China last year has been replaced by the impulse to play the "China card" this year. The "China card" is not the "king bomb" for a presidential candidate's victory, but not playing this card will be regarded as not being tough enough on China and will be a point loss.
From this perspective, understanding Yellen's and Blinken's successive visits to China has created and exported more hostility to contain China than it should be expected to enhance goodwill through visits. Judging from the intention of attacking China, there is a close connection and progressiveness between the two. This also explains that the media did not have high expectations for Blinken's visit.
Blinken came to China with a "pocket issue", and he seemed to have formed a posture of "the United States attacks, China defends", but the Chinese side has made it clear in the form of a briefing in advance that it will not passively follow the rhythm of the United States, but has taken the initiative to set five major goals: establishing correct understanding, strengthening dialogue, effectively managing differences, promoting mutually beneficial cooperation, and jointly shouldering the responsibilities of major countries. From the point of view of the alternating cards played by the two sides, the Chinese side also has enough cards.
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China on Blinken's visit to China: China and the United States cannot clash and confront each other
In response to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China, the head of the North America and Oceania Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a media briefing on the 22nd. The person in charge said that for Secretary of State Blinken's visit, China will mainly focus on five major goals.
First, establish a correct understanding. China and the United States are two major countries that cannot refrain from interacting with each other, let alone engaging in conflict and confrontation. China-US relations should stabilize and improve, and move forward along a stable, healthy, and sustainable path.
Second, strengthen dialogue. More than 20 institutional consultations established or restarted at the San Francisco meeting continue to operate. China's door to dialogue and communication is always open.
Third, we need to effectively manage differences. We must not allow differences to dominate China-US relations, and we must adhere to the whole-process management of China-US relations. In particular, the US must not touch China's red lines on issues such as Taiwan, democracy and human rights, the road system, and the right to development. China firmly opposes the recent erroneous words and deeds of the US side on the Taiwan issue, and urges the US side to abide by the one-China and the three China-US joint communiques. China firmly opposes the politicization of economic, trade, and scientific and technological issues by the United States. We firmly oppose US meddling in the South China Sea issue and sowing discord between China and ASEAN.
Fourth, promote mutually beneficial cooperation. China and the United States share a wide range of common interests and can benefit each other for win-win results.
Fifth, we need to share the responsibilities of major countries. China is playing a constructive and responsible role as a major country on hotspot issues such as the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, and hopes that the United States will do the same. The United States should join other UN member states in supporting the Security Council resolution and promoting a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza as soon as possible. The Chinese side will make clear demands to the US side in this regard.
In response to the US side's claim that it would express its concern about human rights issues during the visit, the head of the US Department of International Affairs said that Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong issues are China's internal affairs and have nothing to do with so-called human rights. The US should first face up to its own human rights issues and is not in a position to point fingers at other countries.
On the issue of the US side investigating and harassing and even repatriating Chinese students, the responsible person of the Department of US and Pacific Affairs said that the Chinese side will continue to urge the US side to stop poisoning the public opinion environment of the two countries, stop obstructing friendly exchanges between the two peoples, correct erroneous practices, and conduct a thorough investigation of the relevant cases.
China: We oppose the US interference in normal economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia
It is reported that during Blinken's visit to China, he will express his dissatisfaction with China's continued supply of key technologies and products to Russia, and even consider imposing sanctions on Chinese financial institutions and other entities. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded on the 23rd, saying that China firmly opposes this very irresponsible statement, and China's right to carry out normal economic and trade exchanges with other countries in the world cannot be violated. We advise the US side to add fuel to the fire or smear and blame the country, neither of which is the right way to resolve the Ukraine issue, but the only way to establish a balanced, effective and sustainable European security framework through dialogue and negotiation that takes into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties is the right choice.
Source: Phoenix Satellite TV Information Channel
Editor: Mu Mu