With the 2024 U.S. election just around the corner, the U.S. government's exchanges with China have become more frequent, and with Yellen and Blinken's second visits to China this year, the world once thought that Sino-U.S. relations would develop in the direction of détente.
But it is clear that neither Blinken nor Yellen have gotten the results they want from China, and even Blinken has made insulting remarks after his visit to China!
Although the results of the successive US visits to China have not been satisfactory, the situation of communication and exchanges between the two sides has led most people to speculate that although the confrontation between China and the United States has never eased, the future relationship between China and the United States will continue to develop in the direction of overall stability.
Although Sino-US relations are full of competition and games, neither side is ready for a showdown in a short period of time, and there will be no fierce confrontation!
However, the Russian media quoted Vasily, an expert on international affairs at the Russian Higher School of Economics, as saying that the United States has always been accustomed to strengthening contacts before launching an attack, and judging from the frequency of exchanges between China and the United States today, it is very likely that the United States is already preparing for a conflict!
Can the words of Russian experts be trusted?
There is an old saying in China that the people who know you best are often your enemies, and for the United States, the Soviet Union, which has been fighting against them for more than 40 years, and even Russia today, are the constant enemies of the United States.
Vasily is a well-known expert on international issues in Russia, and he still has certain opinions on the analysis of issues related to the United States.
The past few decades have proven that Americans try to establish as many lines of communication as possible before they do so, because this makes the crisis manageable. And now Yellen and Blinken's successive visits to China, as well as the frequent exchanges between China and the United States in the past two years, are a very unusual move, which is completely in line with the signs that the United States is about to take action!
And Blinken's constant emphasis on competing responsibly and responsibly with China is believed by Vasily to be the United States preparing for an upcoming conflict!
Of course, China is not unprepared for this, in fact, since China's gradual rise, it has been waiting for the day of showdown with the United States, China has shown a long and great patience in the competition between China and the United States and in dealing with this issue, and China is well prepared!
However, China's diplomacy has always been soft, and the impression that China is relatively weak to the outside world in recent years may give the United States a certain miscalculation, making them think that as long as they are tough on China, they will back down, which is not a good phenomenon for today's Sino-US competition, which may make the United States underestimate China's determination!
Vasily believes that China's clumsy and gentle approach will also make the United States, which has made up its mind for a showdown, suffer a big loss in the early stage of its confrontation with China!
In fact, there is a high degree of similarity between the analysis of Russian experts and the expectations of Chinese counterparts, and almost everyone now knows that there must be a fierce competition between China and the United States, which will be an all-out economic confrontation, if not a military conflict.
In fact, the economic confrontation between China and the United States began a few years ago, and the war situation was far from as smooth as the United States expected, and the United States was still unable to contain China's rise after trying all means, and the next use of force seems to be expected by everyone!
Why can't China-US relations "go back to the way things were"?
From the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States to the complete end of the collapse of the Soviet Union, China and the United States still had very good cultural exchanges and military cooperation during this period!
But when the common enemy is lost, the natural cooperative relationship between China and the United States will also break down, and with the gradual growth of China's economy over the years of reform and opening up, China has become the world's second largest economy, and has launched an attack on the United States, in the eyes of the American people, China has become their mortal enemy!
Throughout the history of the world in the past few hundred years, the road to the rise of a great power is bound to be difficult and full of resistance, and the rising country will either be completely defeated by the roadblock and will be slumped from there, or it will rush to the clouds in one go, replacing the original boss and becoming the maker of order!
Today's China and the United States are facing competition between the boss and the second, and such competition must be endless in the eyes of the United States, so either China is beaten down by the United States, or the United States is surpassed by China to become the second in the world!
But if the Americans really lose the hegemony of the dollar and the current world hegemony, the next consequences for them are far unacceptable to the United States, and the Americans who are used to living by sucking blood will inevitably disperse in a hurry once they lose their fresh blood and attach to the United States, and the United States will definitely be broken up at that time!
Since the United States does not want to accept the bad consequences of being surpassed, then they will inevitably go all out to contain China, for example, now that China has become the world's leader in the field of new energy, the Americans are demanding that China abandon its martial arts in this field.
As long as there is a little common sense and a country with a pursuit, it is absolutely impossible to agree to this request, not to mention that China is no longer a completely disadvantaged side in the game between China and the United States.
It is precisely because the United States has seen through this that it wants to launch a thunderous blow against China when its military hegemony still has any remaining prestige! But in this game in which the winner takes all and the loser loses, does the United States really still have the courage to forge ahead?