On the afternoon of April 24, Blinken arrived in Shanghai to start his second visit to China during his tenure, and US Secretary of State Blinken visited China from 24 to 26 as planned. This is Blinken's second visit to China after last June. Blinken came just after Yellen's visit to China, which shows that the United States is eager to communicate with China, and also shows that the United States is indeed in a lot of big trouble. A large box of gold coins, cursed by the gods, whoever takes the cursed coin, will be punished forever, the scene of the Pirates of the Caribbean being cursed is playing out in the United States, and now the United States is like a curse everywhere in trouble, everywhere in trouble. The spirit of the United States has all collapsed.
The United States began to arrest a large number of students, and this scene is very similar to China during the Beiyang government and China during the Nationalist government. The United States has come to this point just as they did around the world. The American people are getting angrier, and they are increasingly dissatisfied with the current state of America today. And this anger has accumulated within American society, and the result is that sooner or later it will explode. The United States is now desperate to raise interest rates in order to harvest the world's wealth, but this has also caused a huge crisis in the United States, leading to the continuous bankruptcy of banks, resulting in high capital costs for American companies, and burying deep-seated hidden dangers.
Blinken came to China as the U.S. election approached, discontent piled up, and discontent could erupt at any time. China welcomes Blinken's arrival because China has always been open and inclusive, and is willing to cooperate with all countries in the world, including the United States. Blinken's visit to China this time is also for China's help, hoping to get China's help in many areas. The atmosphere created by the United States before Blinken's visit also shows that the United States hopes that Blinken's trip to China will achieve the desired results. The United States is in a deep crisis and needs China's help on all fronts to get out of the crisis, or at least alleviate it.
Of course, Blinken is not only goodwill, but also threatening, just like a gang boss who has been sitting on the throne for a long time suddenly lowers his stature to beg for help, and his heart is still very uneasy. Blinken has a good intention to turn to China in one hand, but a clear threat in the other, which is the mentality of the gang boss begging for help. According to the United States itself, it should consider issues from a position of strength, not on the basis of a rule-based order. It can be said that even when it comes to asking for help, the United States is still unwilling to let go of its pride and prejudice. The West, led by the United States, has indeed developed a sense of superiority over the past 300 years, and it is indeed a little uncomfortable to lose this sense of superiority now.
Blinken came to China and publicly threatened to sanction Chinese commercial banks and remove some of them from the US-controlled settlement system SWIFT. The Wall Street Journal and other US media reported that the United States is drafting sanctions that could cut off some Chinese banks from the global financial system, providing Blinken with "diplomatic bargaining chips". Despite similar reports, US officials have not yet confirmed this information. An anonymous U.S. official said that the United States has not yet taken concrete measures to implement this plan, which means that the U.S. plan is still at the stage of threatening China. It is clear that this is a demonstration to China by the United States at the same time as it is turning to China for help.
In addition to the threat of sanctions against Chinese banks, Blinken also brought the threat of sanctions against Chinese enterprises that normally cooperate with Russia. Blinken openly threatened that if any country continues to supply technology to Russia, then the United States will take drastic measures and directly impose sanctions on the corresponding enterprises. The U.S. kicked Russia's banking system out of the SWIFT system, and Russia is still alive and well, which shows that the U.S.-led system can be replaced by other systems. Is the SWIFT system American? The answer, of course, is no. This settlement system belongs to the whole world and is a public system, but the United States uses it as a weapon.
The SWIFT system is a globally recognized system, and the United States is only one of the users, so why does the United States always use this as a weapon to threaten everywhere? The core is that the United States holds the hegemony of the dollar, and most of the settlement system is settled in the dollar. It is also important to note that most of the data in this settlement system is stored in the United States. Although the data is nominally independent, the United States has used special means to obtain the data and control the data. When the United States has data, it can grasp the transactions of various countries, so it can threaten sanctions everywhere. Of course, the United States threatens China more as a threat than it really wants to carry it out.
China has been trying to build its own settlement system and has reached a basic consensus with major countries such as Russia on this issue. The direct threat of the United States to kick Chinese banks out of the SWIFT system is tantamount to preparing to destroy the system, which is actually against the whole world and is destroying the system. This is a manifestation of US hysteria, and it is also a manifestation of the fact that the US is becoming more and more struggling and entangled in the face of China. The United States knows that it is impossible to bring China to its knees through threats, sanctions, and suppression, but the United States still has to use these bottomless means. At present, the United States is unwilling to accept China's rapid development and does not want to see China's rapid development, but there is no good way, so it is particularly entangled in contradictions.
When the United States confronts China, it gives people the impression that it is incoherent and does not match the preamble, which is actually a manifestation of the United States' entanglement and struggle. The United States has also repeatedly expressed its stance on China's foreign affairs, one meeting accusing Chinese companies of providing technology to Russia and accusing China of providing weapons to Russia without any evidence, and the other meeting stressing that it has found no evidence that China has provided weapons to Russia. The core of this entanglement of the United States lies in the fact that the United States wants to detain from China and impose sanctions on China, but the United States is very afraid of completely provoking China. The United States knows very well that once it provokes China, the consequences will be very serious.
China is a country of etiquette, but China has always had a bottom line of principles, and the consequences of angering China are very terrible. The United States knows very well that even if the United States does not want China's development to do well, it does not dare to provoke China, because China cannot afford to provoke it. China has never been afraid of trouble, but it has never been afraid of it, and once China is provoked, the consequences will be very serious. China's industrial capacity and strong mobilization capacity are unimaginable, and Western countries should be very aware of this.