A few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he plans to visit China in May this year. If this visit to China takes place, it is very likely that it will be his first foreign trip since the start of his new term. Putin's public announcement of this matter is enough to show that he attaches great importance to China, and it also reflects Putin's confidence in strengthening and developing Sino-Russian relations. However, before Putin's special plane for his visit to China arrived in Beijing, the United States issued four "counter-attacks" against China one after another. Recently, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was invited to visit China, during which he conveyed to the Chinese side four so-called "concerns" of the US side, namely, not to support Russia, not to buy Iranian oil, not to "bully" the Philippines in the South China Sea, and not to support Palestine in the Middle East. And this "no support for Russia" is also one of the arguments that American politicians have frequently hyped up in recent times by taking advantage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Prior to his visit, Blinken had claimed that China was providing assistance to Russia on an "alarming scale," including "tools, materials and technical expertise," particularly in the production of optical equipment and rocket fuel. In addition, during the recent G7 foreign ministers' meeting, the G7 issued a joint statement that also raised "serious concerns" about the "supply of dual-use equipment, weapons parts, and equipment needed for military production to Russia" by Chinese companies. These moves by the United States can be summed up in one sentence: China is not allowed to help Russia. Its fundamental purpose is to prevent Sino-Russian relations from getting closer and to strictly prevent close exchanges between China and Russia. To this end, Blinken also announced that corresponding measures will be taken against Chinese organizations and companies that strengthen Russia's industrial base. To put it simply, it is to take the opportunity to sanction China. In response, the U.S. government has threatened to impose sanctions on Chinese financial institutions and other entities, including kicking Chinese banks out of the U.S. dollar international settlement system.
What is the reason why the United States has done everything possible to prevent exchanges between China and Russia? A simple analysis is nothing more than the following points: First, the closer Sino-Russian relations are bound to have a major impact on the current unstable global hegemony of the United States; China and Russia are both nuclear powers and at the same time occupy the "five permanent members" of the UN Security Council; in the eyes of the United States, even one of them can pose a "threat" to the global hegemony of the United States, not to mention the fact that the United States is naturally "worried" about the fact that China and Russia are now "joining forces"; Second, in the eyes of American politicians, this kind of economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia is undoubtedly a "blood transfusion" to Russia, you know, the purpose of the United States to provoke the Russian-Ukrainian conflict behind the scenes is to use Ukraine to consume and drag Russia down, but the close trade cooperation between China and Russia has offset the consumption brought to Russia by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which makes it impossible to achieve the goal of the United States; Although Ukraine's defeat is becoming more and more obvious at the moment, the Biden administration's thinking is that even if Ukraine is going to fall, it cannot fall at this time, at least until after this year's US presidential election, when even if Biden does not succeed in re-election, Ukraine's defeat will not become a "political stain" during Biden's tenure. Therefore, the Biden administration must ensure that the Ukrainian army is currently still fighting on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. In the view of the US side, whether it can effectively stop trade between China and Russia is one of the links. Recently, the Biden administration approved a new aid bill for Ukraine, which is also the same reason, although this $60 billion aid cannot allow the Ukrainian army to reverse the situation, but at least it can give the Ukrainian army a temporary respite and drag the Russian army for a while.
In addition, regarding the so-called "China's aid to Russia" topic hyped by the United States, China has made it clear on many occasions that China is not the maker and party to the Ukraine crisis, and has not provided lethal weapons and equipment to any party to the conflict, and we have not and will not do anything to profit from it. At present, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine still shows no signs of subsidence, and the United States has an unshirkable responsibility. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has clearly stressed that China's right to carry out normal economic and trade exchanges with other countries, including Russia, on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, brooks no interference or undermination, and China's legitimate rights and interests brook no infringement.