On the evening of April 24, Blinken's plane landed in Shanghai. Blinken's visit to China has officially begun.
After looking at the scene, there was no red carpet and no team to pick up the airport. Judging from the video at the scene, there were only three people who picked up the airport, two of whom were still Americans, who should be officials of the US Embassy in China. The Chinese official who picked up the airport was said to be Kong Fuan, director of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office.
I think this time the Chinese media did not give Blinken too much "face", because it has been several hours since the landing, and there has been no overwhelming report, and everyone has no desire to "rush" the news of Blinken's visit. The earliest video of the scene was posted by the Associated Press.
However, in fact, at the beginning, we still gave Blinken a lot of face, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement of Blinken's visit in advance, and the announcement gave Blinken the treatment of "invited" to visit.
But we see that this Blinken is a bit shameless, and did a lot of things to damage Sino-US relations before his visit to China, including talking about the so-called "China's aid to Russia", and also claiming to impose financial sanctions on countries that aid Russia. Anyway, I've seen a lot of related actions in the past two days, so I won't repeat them to you one by one.
That's the way it is in the field of diplomacy, if you give you a face, you don't have a face, then no one will give you a face anymore. Therefore, we can see that the background briefing made by the head of the North America and Oceania Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the media on Blinken's visit to China is already different.
First of all, the explanation for the invitation is that President Biden expressed his desire to arrange Secretary of State Blinken's visit to China during a phone call with Chinese leaders on April 2, which China welcomes. After reading this, I realized that the so-called "invitation" was only agreed to after the Americans asked for a long time. But to put it nicely, it's just called "visiting China by invitation."
At the same time, when introducing the main topics and how Blinken talked about his visit to China, the person in charge of the Department of American and International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made five points, the original words of which were:
Mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation have always been the fundamental principles for China to view and handle China-US relations. During Secretary Blinken's visit, China focused on five major goals.
First, we need to establish a correct understanding, second, strengthen dialogue, third, effectively manage differences, fourth, promote mutually beneficial cooperation, and fifth, jointly shoulder the responsibilities of major countries.
This is equivalent to telling Blinken that you don't command blindly there, and you can talk in these five directions when you come to talk, and don't talk about other nonsense.
Two days ago, I made a content about Blinken's visit to China, and I saw a lot of netizens replying to me, and the most talked about in the reply was that since the United States is like this, since Blinken is like this, why should we let him come?
Come or let him come. Don't we have an old saying, "When a friend comes, there is good wine, but if the jackal comes, he is greeted with a shotgun". If you don't let the jackals come, what are you going to do with your shotgun?
Diplomacy is also a battlefield, and the other side simply refuses to let him come, what does it mean? Do you retreat or sing empty city plans? After all, retreating and empty city plans are not really the royal road. Let you come, explain what I should tell you clearly, what you want to say, what I approve is acceptable, what I don't approve, I'm sorry, I will return the original words.
I have tampered with two words from the "old man" back then, "diplomacy is not a dinner party." What is certain is that Blinken's visit to China will usher in a fierce diplomatic battle. What will the outcome of the struggle look like? Look at the official press release at the end of the visit, and see what the official press release says.