Over the past week, the United States election has been a global hot topic. Since Biden withdrew from the election, the domestic election situation in the United States has become increasingly hot, and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have attacked each other on many occasions in the country.
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Against this backdrop, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is doing his best to maintain his responsibilities as foreign minister (the United States secretary of state is somewhat equivalent to foreign minister), announcing a trip to Asia in the final part of his term.
As part of the announced itinerary, Blinken will begin his trip to Asia in Viet Nam, followed by Laos, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia. Among them, the most notable is his trip to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, between July 26 and July 28.
It is reported that as early as the week before, Blinken said in a public statement that he would meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Vientiane, Laos.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken
However, so far, the Chinese side has not responded positively to whether it will arrange a meeting between Wang Yi and Blinken. According to reports, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and India Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in Laos, but there is still no information on whether he will meet with Blinken.
It is worth noting that not long ago, on June 10, Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a meeting with Lavrov in Nizhny Novgorod, and in just one month, the foreign ministers of the two countries met again, which is a high frequency for senior ministerial-level officials.
The high frequency of communication and exchanges between China and Russia, on the one hand, proves that Sino-Russian relations are constantly developing for the better, and on the other hand, it also makes the Sino-US meeting, which has not yet been conclusive, more intriguing.
Wang Yi meets with Sergei Lavrov
However, at present, China does have reasons not to be in a hurry. First, China's diplomacy has yielded a lot over the past few months. On the one hand, the Palestinian political factions moved towards reconciliation under the mediation of the Chinese side and signed the Beijing Declaration. On the other hand, China's foreign minister frequently appears on various international occasions to meet with dignitaries from various countries.
This is not to say how leisurely Blinken is, in fact, as the largest country in the world today, Blinken, as the secretary of state of United States, naturally has a full daily schedule. However, it is not difficult to see the essential differences between the two countries from what has been discussed in diplomatic forums between the two countries.
In the talks between senior United States officials and political leaders of other countries, more about confrontation and threat. In the meetings between senior Chinese officials and dignitaries from other countries, they talked more about peace, development and cooperation. From this, the "stability" of China's diplomacy can be seen.
Spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry
On the other side, though, Blinken is clearly not so secure. At present, the current United States President Joe Biden has announced that he will not be re-elected, which usually means that Blinken's own career as secretary of state will also end after this year's election. And considering the current election situation in the United States that is not optimistic about the Democratic Party, whether the policies of Biden and his administration can be continued is a huge unknown.
In such a situation, Blinken needs to work as hard as possible during his limited term to ensure and even continue to maintain the current diplomatic situation of the Biden administration.
On the other hand, due to the volatile domestic election situation in the United States, the outside world has deepened doubts about the coherence of the United States government's policies, and Blinken's difficulty in completing this task has increased sharply.
Current President of United States Joe Biden
To this end, Blinken's best option is actually to cooperate with China and take the initiative to reduce tensions between China and the United States. However, the embarrassing thing is that the United States government's long-term domestic propaganda of hate speech and antagonism has caused some of the US confrontational policies to produce huge policy inertia.
So we can see that even as he is willing to meet with Wang Yi, he continues to advocate the so-called "China threat". It can be said that under the instigation of some short-sighted United States politicians, we can foresee that there will be more and more such "twisting" situations in the future.
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