According to the website of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai issued a farewell letter to overseas Chinese compatriots in the United States, saying that he would leave his post and return to China in the near future. The payment date is June 21.
Since becoming ambassador to the United States in April 2013, Cui Has been working in the United States for more than eight years, which has also been an eight-year period of ups and downs in Sino-US relations. As this term draws to a close, there is one interesting detail:
On the day Cui Tiankai issued his farewell letter, he went to the Russian Embassy in the United States and chatted with Russian Ambassador to the United States Antonov. The Russian Embassy in the United States posted a photo of the two ambassadors on Twitter and issued a statement saying: "The responsible people of the diplomatic corps support the development of the strategic partnership between the two countries, as well as the friendly relations between the Russian and Chinese embassies in Washington." The statement also said: "Ambassador Antonov briefed his colleagues on the Russian-American summit held in Geneva on June 16. ”
In Chinese's view, going to a friend's house to "visit" is a way to enhance feelings, and it is also very common for the two diplomatic colleagues to exchange views, but the special thing about this meeting is that diplomats from two countries, who are regarded by the United States as "opponents" or even "enemies", have held friendly talks under the eyes of the United States. One of the ambassadors is leaving office, while the other has just returned to Washington.
Antonov's "return to Washington" also had a tortuous process. On March 17 this year, US President Biden publicly declared putin as a "killer" in an interview, so Antonov was called back to China to "discuss the direction of Russian-US relations", and soon after the US ambassador to Russia also returned to the United States under the "Russian proposal", the diplomatic relations between the two countries were substantially downgraded. After the "General Meeting" on June 16, the heads of state of the United States and Russia reached an agreement that the ambassadors of the two sides would return to their respective jobs. According to foreign media reports, at 12:00 local time on June 20, Antonov's plane arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport, and he then went to Washington and resumed work on the 21st local time in the United States.
That is to say, as soon as Antonov returned to work, he met with the outgoing Cui Tiankai without stopping, and firmly grasped the last window of time when the two sides intersected. Behind such efficiency, if there is no mutual trust between the two sides, it is difficult to imagine that the meeting will be achieved. Most importantly, the content of the two sides' talks is also a process of counter-statement, and the two sides have expressed mutual support with practical actions and cracked the provocation of the US side.
The outside world has noticed that during the "General Visit" meeting, Biden saw a seam to blow the wind against Putin in an attempt to provoke Sino-Russian relations. He hinted that Russia is too dependent on China, calling China a "threat" to Russia, and even loosened the "Nord Stream 2" in an attempt to stabilize Russia and prevent China and Russia from moving closer... In this regard, Putin only lightly said that "we believe that China is not a threat, China is a friendly country, and has never regarded us as an enemy like the United States" and "we will continue to cooperate with China in all aspects."
In the end, it is Putin, and the problem is directed to the core.
Experts also generally believe that it is difficult for the United States to separate China and Russia from its wishes. Timofeev, project director of the Russian Council on International Affairs, believes that the United States will not abandon its transformation plan for Russia and will not stop interfering in Russia's internal affairs, so there is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation between Russia and the United States, and the world will eventually develop in the direction of multipolarization.
Moshakov, director of the Regional Studies Department at the Moscow University of the Humanities, believes that the Biden administration is trying to play geopolitical relations in the Great Triangle between Russia and the United States, but the United States has not made any practical suggestions, which will only strengthen China's confidence in Russia as a partner. National Interest magazine agrees that Moscow and Beijing have made great efforts to push for the idea of a broader partnership, and that they will see through any attempt to divide them.
It is worth noting that according to the Russian Satellite News Agency, just before Antonov's plane arrived in the United States, on June 20, sullivan, the US president's national security adviser, released the wind and claimed that the United States was ready to impose more sanctions on Russia for the arrest of Russian opposition figure Navarine.
The Biden administration's operation of turning hands into clouds and covering hands into rain is similar to any of the previous ones! Russian media described the threat of sanctions issued by the United States a few days after the US-Russia summit as "rude behavior.". After getting off the plane, Antonov said: "I heard on the plane that the United States intends to sanction ... Unfortunately, the path chosen by the American counterpart will not bring us good results, not the direction given by the presidents of Russia and the United States. ”
Then, the next day, Antonov met with Cui Tiankai at the embassy. TASS reported that the two sides had a good chat.
Source: Reference News Network