A few days ago, Blinken was still engaged in "publicly-funded tourism" in China, eating and drinking all the way, but he didn't get anything serious done. Nominally, the visit to China reached a consensus, but the result is still no concrete change. However, on the last day of Blinken's visit to China, a shocking news came, which frightened Blinken to fly to the Middle East overnight. China's long-hidden arrangement has finally been exposed, and this move is too deeply hidden for the United States to lose.
According to the official information of the US State Department, Blinken will start a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia after the end of his visit to China. The trip, according to the United States, was to discuss efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and to release the hostages. Roughly speaking, since the resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October last year, Blinken has gone to the Middle East for the seventh time, which is indeed a bit of a rehash of the same old tune. Moreover, in terms of the travel time, the schedule was very tight, and it can almost be said that it flew from Beijing to Saudi Arabia overnight, which also highlights the eagerness of the United States.
Intuitively speaking, the eagerness of the United States is to be expected. Why. On the last day of Blinken's visit to China, Beijing welcomed two very special people that even the Western world did not expect. Hamas representatives, and Fatah representatives. It can also be said that this news was hidden so deeply by China that the outside world did not know about this incident before the incident, and this greatly reduced the chances of the United States and arranging people to carry out assassinations.
Among other things, Palestinian resistance to Israel has been limited, and to a large extent, it is due to a series of problems caused by the differences and confrontations between Hamas and Fatah. Even the surrounding Arab countries have become divided and antagonistic about how to support Palestine. If China can broker the rapprochement between Hamas and Fatah in the same way that it did between Saudi Arabia and Iran, it will almost be another reshaping of the geopolitics of the Middle East.
For the United States, once China completes this move, Israel will face an entire Arab world, and even the Islamic world. The U.S. will face two scenarios. 1, that is, it is necessary to increase support for Israel, otherwise the Israeli front line is likely to collapse. But this also brings a second case. Support for Israel will further stimulate the growing wave of "pro-Palestinians and anti-Israel" in China. The former hurts the national strength, and the latter hurts the national capital.
Therefore, Blinken's big purpose in going to the Middle East in such a hurry is to preemptively complete the minimum ceasefire and reconciliation of the Palestinian-Israeli issue while preventing China from obtaining the ability to reshape the geopolitics of the Middle East. As for why is the minimum. Because whether it is Blinken's personal prestige and influence, or the intricate entanglement between the United States and Israel, the Netanyahu government is not really willing to sell face to the United States.
If it cannot be stopped, the attention and discussion brought about by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will all be transformed into China's influence. It will allow public opinion about China to break through the "information cocoon" set up by the West. The resulting backlash is something that even the US government cannot bear. To put it mildly, the United States may well not be able to afford to lose. Losing the Middle East means that the United States loses control over global energy and Eurasian land links. Therefore, the greatest possibility is that Blinken will use some reason, or concession, to persuade the Israeli government to temporarily abandon the Gaza offensive, or even make concessions to the Palestinians, in order to sabotage China's reconciliation talks in Beijing.