On April 26, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the United States from a visit to China. On social media and at a press conference, he made a summary remark with a very different content and position. On Twitter, Lincoln seemed to be quite congenial, speaking highly of the meeting with the head of Chinese diplomacy. However, when facing reporters at a reception at the embassy in China, Blinken took a tough stance, claiming that "if you are not willing to take the initiative to solve the problem of aiding Russia, you will solve the donors themselves." This fully shows that Blinken did not get what he wanted in China at all, and returned to the United States empty-handed. The content of his talks with the Chinese side is basically in line with the media's predictions before his visit to China. These include the so-called China's export overcapacity, the South China Sea, the internal affairs of Xinjiang and Tibet, and the internal governance of Hong Kong, with the core of course China's trade with Russia. Blinken also discussed the fight against drug trafficking with the head of China's Ministry of Public Security. Although the two sides reached a five-point consensus, both the Chinese side and the US side admitted that the visit did not make any breakthrough.
We have analyzed before that the so-called problem of China's export excess capacity is a false proposition created by the United States. China's production capacity has been warmly welcomed by global merchants, only the United States is uncomfortable, because in the frontier fields such as green energy and new energy vehicles, the United States has not been able to seize industrial opportunities and not make the money they want to make, while China's industry has flourished. From Yellen to Blinken, the demands put forward are actually to deprive Chinese workers of their jobs and give them to the Americans, and such unreasonable demands naturally have no results. On the issues of Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, Blinken still has the same old-fashioned attitude, making groundless accusations against China's internal political rationale and counterterrorism measures. Everyone knows that the main reason for the social instability in these three regions is the result of the long-term subversive activities of the CIA, and China has not yet held the United States accountable.
The focus of Blinken's visit is the economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia. Blinken explicitly identified three categories of goods, namely precision machine tools, electronic components and nitrocellulose. At the press conference, Blinken told the media in a very inflammatory remark that Russia has purchased these three types of materials from China, strengthened the production capacity of military scientific research and supported the war in Ukraine, and caused a large number of civilian casualties. Of course, he never talked about how many people died as a result of the advanced weapons and equipment such as 155mm large-caliber artillery shells, Hymars rocket launchers, and Abrams tanks provided by the United States to Ukraine. Blinken blamed China for being the world's largest producer of digestible cotton, which Russia can use to make projectiles for artillery shells and propellants for missiles and rockets. Nitrocellulose can be used to produce ammunition, but it is mainly a commonly used chemical raw material, and NATO countries are also large buyers of Chinese digestible cotton. Of course, China will not accept blaming China for the trade of these three goods.
Everyone knows that Blinken is going to discuss these issues, and they also know that he will not achieve anything, so why does he still have to touch the nails? This can only show that the United States has pushed itself into a corner in handling relations with China, and there is no way out. Many problems are traps dug by the Americans themselves, and the Americans have lit the fire, and in the short term they seem to have gained benefits, but as things continue to develop, many situations have surprised the Americans, and in the end it has become difficult for the Americans to get out. This is true of the Ukraine issue, the same is true of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the same is true of relations with China. At present, the United States is using the same tactics on the Taiwan issue and the South China Sea issue, and these are all problems that are destined to make the United States unable to eat and go around. I can assert that in the future, the United States will be in Asia and on China-related issues.
Regarding Blinken's visit, the anti-China media Voice of America made a rare and quite accurate assessment, saying that this visit means that Sino-US relations have moved from a sharp decline to a steady deterioration. The United States also realizes that if relations between the two countries decline in this way, it will only be an all-out war, which the United States cannot afford. However, the United States cannot tolerate sitting back and watching China develop and grow. Therefore, the relations between the two countries will continue to go downhill in the future. Judging from the situation of the US government, this downward slope will not be too long, because no matter who is in power, there is no possibility of reversing the trend of US decline. Therefore, China should be fully mentally prepared, and the US government's even more frantic moves towards China are yet to come.