On April 24, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken flew to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on a C-32 executive plane provided by the U.S. Air Force for another visit to China, but judging from many pictures released by the media, after Blinken's arrival in Shanghai, there was no red carpet ceremony waiting for Blinken. It is also very rare for a high-level official like the secretary of state to arrive in Shanghai for a second trip to China without a red carpet ceremony, which China has put in front of Blinken. Blinken stayed at the Peace Hotel, which is located next to the Bund in Shanghai, and below the Peace Hotel is the Huangpu River, where the PLA's 052D missile destroyer Zibo and the hospital ship "Peace Ark" are parked below.
Looking in the direction of the Huangpu River from multiple rooms in the Peace Hotel, you can directly see the PLA warships, so during Blinken's visit to China, China did not prepare any red carpet ceremony for Blinken at all, but directly drew a red line, and this red line also shows that if the United States plays a dishonorable role on the Taiwan issue, or continues to provoke in the South China Sea, the only thing waiting for the United States is the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
The East China Sea Fleet is responsible for the task of patrolling in the Taiwan Strait, and judging from the information disclosed by Taiwan's defense department, at present the PLA has a number of warships carrying out combat patrol operations around Taiwan Island, and on April 23, the Navy Day, it is also very difficult for the East China Sea Fleet to withdraw a number of surface ships to carry out open activities, and it is also very difficult for the East China Sea Fleet, which has a very heavy combat readiness task, and the 052DL missile destroyer Zibo sent by the PLA is on display in Shanghai, and the 052D missile destroyer is different from the 052DL missile destroyer, which has stronger shipboard equipment, although there is no increase in the number of vertical launch units, but the ship's anti-submarine capabilities have been greatly improved. The U.S. nuclear submarine has been exposed to be conducting high-intensity operations in the South China Sea, and it is even possible that it has directly engaged in close confrontation with the PLA's nuclear submarine, and in this case, the U.S. nuclear submarine has not bargained for anything, because the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Connecticut has previously collided with a mountain in the South China Sea.
In recent times, China has mostly been relatively passive in the process of responding to the United States, and under normal circumstances, the PLA will respond to the United States with a series of interception measures, but now China's active attacks have become more and more frequent. Judging from the information obtained by the War Research Institute, in recent years, China has repeatedly sent a large number of surface warships to the far seas of the West Pacific to carry out military operations, and for this reason, the United States has also continued to cooperate with Japan to carry out a series of countermeasures, and at the critical moment of Blinken's visit to China, the United States has already stated that it will send the USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Japan to increase its deployment. The USS Washington will carry F-35C stealth fighters on board the operation, and the USS Ronald Reagan, which is currently docked in Japan, will return to the U.S. mainland when the USS Washington arrives in Japan.
For the United States, dispatching aircraft carriers for deterrence has become the only way for the United States to point its sword at China, and the PLA is not afraid of the dispatch of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the US Navy at all. China already has a variety of anti-carrier warfare methods, including the use of YJ-21 anti-ship missiles, which are hypersonic enough to penetrate the anti-aircraft firepower network built by the U.S. Burke-class missile destroyers. Text/Iris