U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has already traveled to China, and before his departure, the U.S. side revealed that Blinken will discuss Taiwan-related issues with the Chinese side, as well as China's "support for Russia." The U.S. side said that Russia is carrying out large-scale military construction, and that China's normal commercial trade with Russia "provides support for Russia's military expansion."
The Chinese side has long stated that it is China's right to conduct normal commercial trade with Russia, and that China-Russia cooperation is not aimed at or interfered with by any third party. China is not a party to the Ukraine issue and has not benefited from the conflict in Ukraine, and the US should not regard the Ukraine issue as an issue between China and the United States.
The accusations made by the United States against China are unreasonable, and it is extremely irresponsible for the United States to introduce a bill to aid Ukraine and provide military equipment to Ukraine, resulting in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine not ending for more than two years. China has always viewed the Russia-Ukraine issue from the position of promoting peace talks, and has controlled the export of dual-use items in accordance with the law.
In fact, the United States itself knows that it will not play a role in shifting the responsibility for the defeat on the battlefield in Ukraine to China, and the ultimate goal of the United States is to cut off Russia's economic resources. Since Russia shifted its trade focus from the West to the East, bilateral trade between China and Russia has reached $240 billion, which has greatly reduced Western measures to suppress the Russian economy. Therefore, the American side decided to pour its anger on China.
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, the United States is drafting a sanction that threatens to cut off China's banking sector from the world's financial system in order to restrict "China's assistance to Russia." This kind of measure was used by the United States once when the Russian-Ukrainian conflict first broke out, but Russia survived, and now the United States has begun to threaten China with a "financial nuclear bomb" again.
Seeing that China will be hacked by the United States because of Russia, the Russian side has also expressed something. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that more than 90% of the trade between China and Russia is settled in local currencies, and bilateral economic relations are almost completely de-dollarized. The Russian side is negotiating with the Chinese side on cooperation in the field of energy and is ready to increase supplies to the Chinese market. This data is not to say that Sino-Russian trade can replace China's trade with the West, but that the dollar is no longer a necessity in international trade. In the past, with the example of China and Russia, other countries could completely follow the example of China and Russia and increase the share of local currency settlement when trading with other countries, which can be called a nightmare for the United States.
The United States controls the global economy through the dollar, and once the hegemony of the dollar is no longer there, the United States has no way to use the dollar to continue harvesting the world. In this way, the interest paid by the United States to other countries every year alone can crush the prosperity brought about by the advanced consumption of the United States, and the United States is naturally worried.
Another piece of news is that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a ministerial meeting of the Russian Ministry of Defense that since the special military operation, the Ukrainian army has lost about 500,000 soldiers, and Ukraine, with the help of NATO, has not completed the goal of the counteroffensive, and the myth of the superiority of Western weapons has been shattered. Previously, Zelensky announced that the number of casualties was only tens of thousands, but the data of the Russian side was ten times higher than that of the Ukrainian side.
Russia's two generals, one civilian, one armed and one military, have successively said what the Biden administration is most afraid of now. Russia has resisted pressure from the West, both economically and militarily. Pessimism has spread within Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army no longer believes in the pie painted by the United States. At this point, no matter how much the United States keeps pouring dirty water on China, it will be useless, and it is better to think about how to end it.