Title : Are U.S. - China Relations Unraveling?
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Are U.S. - China Relations Unraveling?
Blinken’s meeting with Xi capped two days of talks with senior Chinese officials. Leah Millis / AFP
New York Times: Blinken Visit Reveals Chasm in How U.S. and China Perceive Rivalry
An austere greeting on the airport tarmac in Beijing sans a red carpet. A stone-faced handshake from China’s top foreign policy official. A seat looking up at the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, perched at the head of a long table.
To international audiences, the optics of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s two-day visit to Beijing barely raised any eyebrows. Foreign ministers are rarely, if ever, met with much fanfare at the airport. And an audience with a head of state alone is a sign of great importance and respect.
But to nationalist-leaning audiences in China, especially on social media, the scenes tell a different story. To them, the Mr. Blinken arrived only after months of pleading for an invitation. And during his visit, he was schooled on respecting China’s interests and played supplicant to Mr. Xi. Chinese social media users gleefully noted that Mr. Blinken arrived on Father’s Day, the implication being — using the parlance of the internet — that Mr. Xi was America’s daddy.
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WNU Editor: First things first. This weekend's U.S. - China talks were a complete failure.
US Secretary of State Blinken went into the talks with his focus on managing current U.S. - China relations while developing a process for closer ties (i.e. setting up a military crisis hotline being one of them). The Chinese government did not buy into Blinken's proposal.
The Chinese are focused on US actions to assemble alliances and measures in Asia that will isolate and/or "box in" China. Quoting the above article's comment from Chinese President Xi .... Surrounding China with security partners and cutting off its access to advanced technology is not healthy competition, but an invitation for conflict.
As to where is all of this going?
The U.S. foreign policy establishment is making the same mistake with China that they did with Russia.
There was a belief in 2021 that the West could manage Russia and disregard their national security concerns and the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. We now know where that policy of management (unlike the Cold War policy of containment) has ended.
Ditto with China today.
There is a belief in Washington that they can manage China while disregarding their national security concerns over Taiwan. There is also a belief in Washington that they contain China's economic development, while disregarding Beijing concerns that economic growth is vital to maintain internal peace and stability.
Sighhh .... like Russia, I predict that this American foreign policy to manage China will also end in disaster.
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