Text—Liu Fufeng
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's plane landed in Shanghai on Wednesday, probably by coincidence, as U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $95.2 billion foreign aid bill. This seemingly large-scale aid is really not appreciable and the effect is doubtful, but it is the Biden administration that has done its best to get Congress to pass.
The United States lacks "water" and "the landlord's family has no food", if Biden does not particularly want to be re-elected president, I am afraid he will not spend so much effort to win this shop. The four major areas of aid in this bill are, first, Ukraine $60.8 billion, followed by Israel $26.3 billion, and third, U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region, mainly Taiwan, with $8.1 billion to strengthen the counterbalance to China. In addition, it has imposed sanctions on foreigners who operate ports, ships, and refineries that support Iran's oil exports, imposed sanctions on foreigners who support Iran's missile program, and some Iranian leaders, authorized the U.S. president to seize and transfer Russia's sovereign assets to fund war reparations and reconstruction in Ukraine, and demanded that China's ByteDance divest its TikTok business, among others.
The vast majority of the work involved in the bill is not easy to do, and the vast majority of it is invested in the protracted war between Russia and Ukraine, the Palestinian-Israeli war, the "great power game" with China, and the possibility of military conflicts between the United States and China in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
In this regard, Uncle Sam and Biden should also be clear, so it is not easy for Congress to approve this bill, but the Biden administration can't take care of that much, "crossing the sea is a fairy", in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the war between Palestine and Israel, and the game against China, he can't lose any of them, he can't show cowardice, he must hold on to the death until the end of the election.
In this context, Blinken's visit to China seems to have added a bit of confidence, and a considerable amount of money in this bill is used to suppress China. Americans have always been "rich and exposed," superstitious about force, narcissistic hegemonism, and believe that with guns, cannons, and money, the stick of hegemony can be invincible. Before Blinken came to China, he used his usual nonsense to intimidate and smear China, and use the so-called "position of strength" of the United States to sound the gong to open the way, but it is certain that he will touch his nose again and bring humiliation on himself!
This article was originally published in "Oriental Daily", original title: "Hundreds of billions of dollars for fart"
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