Blinken's visit this time did not hide in the slightest that the United States "has a request from China." It's just that the United States is used to being the world's boss, so Blinken is still speaking in a threatening tone, and the main thing is a "hard mouth". But this is enough to make the Western camp collectively change the direction of the wind.
After Blinken arrived in Beijing, he began to talk with the Chinese side about "serious matters", but what exactly did he talk about? In fact, the Biden administration has been preparing for Blinken's visit since a few months ago, and it mainly involves three topics, let's go to them one by one.
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The first issue was raised by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who took the lead in Blinken. We note that, in addition to Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have both visited China twice in the past year. Judging from the announcements issued after their visit to China, apart from reiterating the basic consensus reached by the Chinese and US heads of state at last year's meeting in San Francisco, such as "no decoupling", "maintaining contact", and "managing competition", no tangible results have been achieved.
However, the most important thing for the United States is that Yellen first proposed the concept of "overcapacity" in China's green energy industry, which has been hyped up by the Western media, and has now become a new tool of "cognitive warfare". Blinken is expected to continue to put forward this concept, asking China to limit the production capacity of industries such as photovoltaic panels and new energy vehicles to prevent harm to U.S. industry, and to put pressure on China to cooperate with the Fed's possible future policies in the financial sector.
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The second topic is the so-called "normal trade between China and Russia has enhanced Russia's military strength", especially China's export of so-called "dual-use" materials to Russia, which are directly used by Russia in the field of military industry, which has significantly increased the output of Russia's military industry.
Blinken has already promoted this view at the NATO foreign ministers' summit in early April and the subsequent G7 foreign ministers' summit. Blinken's visit to China is bound to put pressure on China to stop or significantly reduce normal trade with Russia, so as to undermine Russia's economic and military strength.
Blinken's tactics are nothing more than threats to sanction Chinese financial institutions and companies involved in trade with Russia. The U.S. Congress has worked well with Blinken: in mid-April, anti-China congressman Mike Gallagher, who is about to retire from politics, introduced a bipartisan bill, the "No Limits Act", which would give Chinese military companies designated by the U.S. government 180 days to withdraw from the Russian market, and if they are found to have so-called "material support to Russia", they will face "comprehensive blockade sanctions".
In fact, these companies include not only Chinese military enterprises, but also several Chinese automobile companies. In order to increase Blinken's "bargaining chips", according to the Wall Street Journal, the US Congress is drafting a draft sanction that threatens to remove some Chinese banks from the Global Bank Settlement System (SWIFT) in order to block Sino-Russian trade.
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The third issue is to demand that China stop importing Iranian oil and that China cooperate with the United States in pressuring Iran to end its hostilities against Israel. Similarly, the U.S. Congress passed a bill in mid-April to sanction Iran, banning all countries from importing Iranian oil. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she would join forces with the G7 countries and "global allies" to follow suit, and added an additional mention of China, demanding that China not import Iranian oil, otherwise sanctions will be imposed on relevant Chinese companies.
Looking at these three issues, in fact, the United States is asking for China. Blinken has made no secret of this in his recent remarks, even in China. He revealed in and out his hope that China would provide assistance to the United States on hot issues such as Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, as well as China-US economic and trade relations. Blinken's performance surprised the West and even the international community, and they felt that the United States did not even want the face of the global boss.
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What followed was a collective shift in the latest direction of the West. Completely different from last year's Western media's overwhelming propaganda of "China's economic stagnation" and "China's economy has peaked," in the face of the reality that China's GDP grew by 5.3 percent and exports were booming in the first quarter of this year, the tone of the Western camp suddenly changed to being optimistic about China's economic growth.
A number of foreign institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, have recently raised their forecasts for China's economic growth in 2024, and some Western media have said that China will be the "largest contributor" to global economic growth in the next five years. These changes in public opinion have suddenly turned China into what the Western media call "sweet and sweet".
No matter whether the West praises or belittles it, it is an indisputable fact that China's economy has bright prospects and makes a huge contribution to world economic growth; under the unilateral manipulation of the United States, it is also an indisputable fundamental that China will face suppression and containment by the West, especially the United States. Therefore, we must maintain our strategic focus, sit firmly in the Diaoyutai platform, and look down on the different winds and waves from the West. Only by wholeheartedly boosting the economy and national strength will all the intrigues and tricks of the United States and the West become nothing. Blinken's visit to China this time will inevitably leave empty-handed.