Blinken's visit to China highlights the three major goals, and wants to preemptively force China to compromise, and China responds with five major demands and carries out strong countermeasures.
On April 24, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China by special plane, and according to the White House, Blinken's visit has three major tasks: First, make progress on key issues. The second is to clearly and directly express concerns about bilateral, regional, and global issues between China and the United States. The third is to manage competition responsibly so as not to lead to miscalculations or conflicts. For example, before Blinken even left, he used the so-called "China's aid to Russia's defense industry" to attract other G7 countries to hype up the situation, and threatened to sanction Chinese banks and financial institutions to force China to comply; The Chinese Foreign Ministry has made clear its solemn position on Sino-Russian trade, and at the same time, China's high-level officials have been invited to visit Russia, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is also about to visit China. On the issue of so-called "overcapacity", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded in two sentences, stressing that the US hype is unreasonable and China firmly opposes it.
The Chinese side has become tired and impatient with the hypocritical behavior of the US side in communicating with China and making pledges on the one hand, and suppressing and containing China and encircling China in the form of bloc confrontation on the other. Before Blinken's plane arrived in China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry gave a "precautionary shot" in advance and put forward five major requirements for Sino-US relations. First, we urge the US side to establish a correct understanding of China, and since it knows that China and the United States cannot confront each other, it must put away the "new Cold War" mentality and seek a path of peace with China. The second is to emphasize that there should be dialogue between China and the United States, but dialogue should build consensus and reduce friction. Third, the two countries must effectively manage their differences and not allow them to dominate China-US relations. Fourth, China and the United States should promote mutually beneficial cooperation. Fifth, on regional hotspot issues, China and the United States should shoulder their responsibilities as major countries and refrain from adding fuel to the fire and taking advantage of the opportunity.
Judging from the content, China's five major demands have already "opened the skylight and said bright things", torn apart the ugly face of the US side of "saying one thing and doing another", and staged a showdown on the root cause of the problems and the future direction of Sino-US relations. On the other hand, China has directly attacked the three major goals of Blinken's visit to China with the "five major demands", and if the US side wants to talk well, it must follow China's rules, and if it still proceeds from "strength" and treats China with a domineering attitude, it cannot be ruled out that the history of the Sino-US Alaska talks will be repeated.
The current U.S.-China relationship is moving forward amid twists and turns, and the Biden administration, for its political purposes, has tried to be tough on China in the economic, trade, technological, and geopolitical fields, but the result has backfired, further exposing the sense of powerlessness of the U.S. side toward China. Under the current debt pressure of nearly $35 trillion and the bipartisan struggle between the United States, if the United States insists on provoking confrontation between China and the United States, it does not rule out the possibility of fighting on three fronts: Russia and Ukraine, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, which will accelerate the subversion of the "international order" led by the United States. However, if the United States does nothing in the Asia-Pacific region and the "Indo-Pacific", and is worried that China will use the United States to expand its "influence" in the relevant regions and expel the United States from the United States, this ambivalence is an intrinsic factor in determining the US strategy toward China.
The Chinese side is very clear, the key to the problem of the US side lies in its wrong perception of China, describing Sino-US relations with a "Cold War" mentality, and the US side can only put aside misunderstandings and prejudices and sincerely move towards China, and eventually it will find that the world is really big and can accommodate China and the United States.