Since the Trump administration brazenly launched a trade crackdown on China in 2018, the bilateral relations between China and the United States have gradually cooled down, and after the high-level contacts between China and the United States have begun to resume a certain degree of contact in recent times, international public opinion generally believes that this is a sign of easing sino-US relations.
At present, this kind of sign can basically be attributed to three indicator events, the most important event is the call between the Leaders of China and the United States, the two sides have communicated again on issues of concern to each other, and Biden also stressed respect for the "one China" principle on the phone.
The second high-profile case, Ms. Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive, returned to China.
The third is on Sino-US economic and trade issues, recently, US Trade Representative Dai Qi publicly stated that he would not seek to "decouple" from China, and said that he would "re-link" with China, and the Sino-US Trade Representative also made contact.
These moves are widely regarded as positive factors in Sino-US relations, and even some media regard them as the "three major concessions" of US relations with China, but can this trend really be interpreted as a handshake between China and the United States?
Professor Shi Yinhong, a scholar from the Guoguan Think Tank of Chinese Min University, has a different view on this. Professor Shi Yinhong appealed that when Dealing with Sino-US bilateral relations, China should not be overly optimistic because the other side has softened its posture.
In Professor Shi Yinhong's view, the United States has indeed gradually slowed down its posture at the diplomatic level in recent times, but at the same point in time, the political and military alliance of the United States, Britain and Australia, AUKUS, has emerged, and the existence of this new alliance is undoubtedly a signal to the world, the United States has become more focused in geopolitical and military attention, and the composition of its core alliance has become more pure.
It is not difficult to see that this Chinese scholar's vision is still relatively long-term, perhaps this kind of argument is the mainstream in the world, but at home, I believe that we ordinary people are more in agreement. Is there less to be believed by the U.S. government? Don't forget, Huawei, DJI and other Chinese companies are still on the US sanctions list!
The reality of the current Sino-US relations is that there are structural contradictions between China and the United States, on the one hand, the Chinese people's yearning for a better life, and on the other hand, the United States' greed for historical global hegemony, which in itself means that the competition for resources between the two major powers is objective.
However, under the profound influence of globalization, Sino-US trade has reached a state of high dependence on each other, so it is a fact that China and the United States complement each other, and it is also a fact that China and the United States compete with each other.
However, under the influence of extreme anti-China sentiment, the United States is breaking the balance of relations between the two countries, gradually allowing "competition" to overwhelm "complementarity", and at the moment, the United States has suspended its comprehensive pressure on China, and it is only affected by the deterioration of the global trade environment, and has to take urgent measures to temporarily freeze the gradually heating up of the two sides to avoid misjudgment.
At the same time, today's United States itself is facing a series of challenges, such as the new crown epidemic, global supply chain instability, inflation, labor shortages and debt problems, etc., this series of people's livelihood internal affairs have made the superpower tired of coping. But the best option to help the United States get out of the quagmire is to cooperate with China, which is undoubtedly ironic for the Decision-Making Level in the United States.
And for the Biden administration, the most urgent task at the moment is to reach a consensus with China in the economic and trade field as soon as possible, restore normal trade relations between the two sides, re-promote the implementation of the phase one economic and trade agreement as soon as possible, and seek China's support on the US debt issue, as well as pass the economic stimulus plan proposed by Biden in Congress as soon as possible.
However, this series of plans has faced Republican opposition, criticism from the Republican Party and pressure from the midterm elections, so that Biden has to look ahead.
Affected by this, on the one hand, the United States is trying to resume dialogue with China in the economic and trade fields, and on the other hand, it is secretly tightening its military containment of China. Previously, the Seawolf-class nuclear submarine Connecticut, the strongest nuclear submarine in service in the US Navy, was accidentally damaged in the South China Sea, revealing to the world that the US pressure on China in the military field has reached a new stage.
In this context, if we still adhere to the argument that "Sino-US relations are easing," it can only show that onlookers have neither understood the United States nor China. This argument is somewhat "smoke bomb" and is intended to confuse China.
In fact, for Sino-US relations, the Chinese side has always held a positive but principled attitude, talking, China opened its doors, fight, And China accompanied to the end. Moreover, even if the United States has provoked so vigorously, our side still does not accept the argument that "the current Sino-US relations are mainly competition", but instead insists that China and the United States should focus on open cooperation and be supplemented by healthy competition.
Countless facts have proved that Sino-US cooperation is mutually beneficial, fighting is two-hurt, and meaningless conflicts can only deepen the separation between each other. And the ball is now at the feet of the United States, where China and the United States will go in the future, more depends on the final decision of the United States, China is fully prepared to meet any challenge!