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The relationship between countries is actually similar to the relationship between people.
If two countries have a good relationship, they will definitely walk around each other frequently. You come to my house to play, and I will come to your house to play. Of course, it’s not just about playing, but also about discussing some serious matters. Countries move around each other, talk more about business, and have relatively fewer factors to play with, but it’s not without them. For example, when we receive foreign guests, we often take them to visit cultural relics. When Trump visited China in 2017, we took him for a good tour of our Forbidden City.
So what if the relationship is any worse? So I’m not too embarrassed to visit each other, what should I do? So if you don’t meet me here, I won’t meet you there either. Let’s find another place. Sometimes it’s during gatherings, such as classmate gatherings, hometown gatherings, or other gatherings. Sometimes it’s to schedule another meeting place. This is manifested internationally as holding bilateral talks during various meetings during the breaks between them. Or find a third country, everyone run over and meet.
The relationship between China and the United States is not very good now, so mutual visits between the heads of state of China and the United States are probably impossible. But on November 4, 2022, the day before the opening of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, the heads of state of China and the United States met.
I have no intention of engaging in conflicts with China, seeking to decouple from China, obstructing China’s economic development, or containment of China.
This indicates that the relationship between the two families is not good, and visiting each other is not feasible. However, by meeting and speaking on a certain occasion, there may still be results.
That is to say, with Biden’s “five no four no intentions”, after China US relations fell to a low point last year due to the visit of old lady Pelosi, both sides are exploring whether they can visit each other.
At the beginning of February this year, foreign media reported that American Secretary of State Antony Blinken planned to visit China, but then they began to play ballooning. A Chinese civilian balloon, due to its immature technology, was blown to the United States by the wind. The US military deployed the most advanced F22 fighter jet and shot them down. The cost of playing a balloon is 400000 dollars.
Then Antony Blinken announced that he would cancel his visit to China.
This is actually a bit funny. As Mao Ning, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said when answering questions from reporters, China and the United States have never officially announced Antony Blinken’s visit to China. In other words, the so-called Antony Blinken’s visit to China is just a matter of contact and discussion, not a definite matter. In short, it is not a matter, or there is no matter at all. As a result, Antony Blinken announced that he would cancel this thing that never happened.
I satirized the logic of Americans in the previous issue, and in this issue, I unintentionally discovered that there is indeed a problem with their logic. If you say you want to cancel something that doesn’t exist at all, then cancel the air.
So our Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning’s evaluation of this matter is that it is their own responsibility for the US to release information. That is to say, when he’s idle and talks about canceling something that doesn’t exist at all, he wants to announce it as soon as he wants. That’s his business, it’s none of my business.
In short, since the ballooning, China US relations have once again fallen back to a low point, thanks to the signs of improvement formed by the two heads of state during their meeting in Bali. Start all over again.
And then what? Then, the United States has been eagerly wanting to meet China.
I’m not saying this nonsense, nor is it just to show that China has face. The United States wants to meet China, that’s not a general idea, that’s quite a thought.
Do you have any evidence? have The most typical evidence is that on April 18, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a sentence that is worth pondering when attending the meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Seven. We won’t say the last word of his preface, let’s just say his most central sentence. As the original saying goes:
China must demonstrate a willingness to continue engaging with the United States
See? China is angry and doesn’t want to talk to him. He is very angry about China’s anger. So, he said in a commanding tone, ‘What must China do? What must China do?’? It must be demonstrated, what must be demonstrated? Show a willingness to engage with the United States.
So, by analyzing this sentence, it can be confirmed that the United States is indeed eager to meet China. We are not saying this to save face for ourselves.
Through this sentence, we can also see the hegemony of the United States.
There are indeed some things in the world that can be commanded by others, but there is only one thing that cannot be commanded, and that is will.
Even in the military that emphasizes command and obedience the most, superiors can command subordinates, and subordinates must also execute, but that can only command others to take action, and cannot command others to be willing. Even in times of war, soldiers may not be willing to execute the orders of their superiors. So orders can only be reflected in actions, not in intentions. I don’t like you, you command me to like you, like this, how can you command? Is willingness something that can be forced?
Once again, it can be seen that the logic of the United States is chaotic and lacks common sense. He does not know what can be commanded and what cannot be commanded. So I said that the logical level of the United States is at the level of mental disability.
Not far from it, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered China to like him in the form of willingness to contact him. It can be seen from this that Americans really want to meet China.
Why do Americans want to harm China while also meeting with China? The truth is actually very simple. Friends, please don’t think that the United States wants to meet China is fake. So, what is the reason why the United States really wants to meet China? Please take a look at a message:
On July 26, 2021, then Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng held talks with US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman in Tianjin and said, “The US cannot eliminate bad things and still wants to take advantage of the benefits
It is a fact that the United States is now attacking China, and it is also a fact that they want to see China. Hitting China is to eliminate bad things, wanting to see China is to seize all the benefits.
So what should China do? That’s when you want to take advantage, I’ll talk to you about the terms. If you want to take advantage of something, please do less bad things. So currently, one way for China to play the game with the United States is to engage with the United States appropriately and try to negotiate terms with the United States.
Because of this, although the relationship between China and the United States is so poor, as I mentioned earlier, stories of meeting people at gatherings or deliberately finding a third-party location still happen from time to time. For example:
On May 10th, Wang Yi, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Committee, held a meeting with Assistant to the US President for National Security Affairs Sullivan in Vienna, Austria.
According to media reports, the communication between the two sides was frank, in-depth, substantive, and constructive. What is honesty? That’s what I want to say. Don’t blame my words for making you angry. Deepening and substantiality, that is, not haha, talking about the main matter, and talking about specific matters. Constructive, which means solving problems, just like building a house. If you want to build a house, discuss how to build it.
The identity of the officials in this meeting between China and the United States is also quite unique.
China is a member of the Politburo and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission. It is generally believed that this is a comprehensive institution responsible for China’s diplomatic work, with a slightly higher level than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the United States, there is the Assistant for National Security Affairs of the President of the United States. Although he is not a formal official, he is only a staff member of the President of the United States. In ancient China, he was called a military officer and played the role of Zhuge Liang (of course, Zhuge Liang later came to power). But precisely because he is not a formal official of the United States, his appointment does not require approval from Congress. Therefore, the president appoints whoever he wants, which is generally considered a confidant of the president (Kissinger also played this role when he promoted the normalization of Sino US relations). From the practice of international exchanges in recent years, it seems that its status is actually slightly higher than that of the US Secretary of State (i.e. the US Foreign Secretary).
In a sense, in the diplomacy of China and the United States, apart from direct communication between the heads of state, meeting people in these two identities is considered the highest level, so to some extent, it has the function of a compass.
That’s why on May 10th, after this meeting between China and the United States, another meeting was held between China and the United States. On May 25, Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce Raymond and U.S. Trade Representative Dai Qi during the APEC Trade Ministers’ Meeting in Detroit, the United States.
We can understand it this way:
Last November, the heads of state of China and the United States met to confirm the overall direction of their relationship. Later, there was a balloon incident, and the relationship between China and the United States was about to return to zero. As a result, on May 10th, officials in charge of macro management of diplomatic relations between China and the United States held a meeting and renegotiated in accordance with the guidelines formulated by the two heads of state meeting. The overall direction was positive. Subsequently, the normal script is for officials from one field to discuss separately and gradually.
So on May 25th, officials from the economic field met.
What about next? Next, there will be meetings in other fields, especially in the military field. Of course, due to the current strained relationship between the two families, we need to find opportunities to meet each other in each other’s country due to immature conditions. As I mentioned earlier, either it’s an opportunity to hold a meeting or deliberately find a third country to meet.
Well, now comes the opportunity. From June 2 to June 4, there will be a meeting in Shangri La, Singapore, called “the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue”. This dialogue will mainly discuss international security. However, it was just a dialogue meeting, attended by both officials and scholars, who expressed their opinions and inspired each other. No resolution is formed, and the formation of a resolution is not binding. It’s like a seminar. For example, this year’s dialogue includes officials and scholars from 41 countries, including 48 ministers and representatives, over 35 senior defense representatives, as well as well-known experts and scholars.
According to convention, both the defense ministers of China and the United States are required to attend the meeting. Therefore, following the convention since this year, it is natural for the defense ministers of China and the United States to meet in person. After all, officials in the economic field – Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, US Trade Representative Dai Qi, and Commerce Minister Raymond – had already met in Detroit on May 25th.
This is normal logic, and it has been proven that Americans do think the same way.
However, it is very certain that the defense ministers of China and the United States will not meet this time.
On May 29, four days before the Shangri-La Dialogue was held, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Department of Defense had issued a statement saying that China had formally rejected the US request for the two defense ministers to meet at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Officials from the US Department of Defense also said that China’s refusal to send out an “unusual and straightforward message” this time, please pay attention to the keywords: first, unusual, and second, straightforward. The US Department of Defense also stated that they made this request in early May.
At the regular press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 30th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said, “The reason is clear to the US
That is to say, Americans say that China rejected the United States, and then Chinese people use their own unique implicit way to admit that I did reject the United States. The United States did not spread rumors, release false news, or slander China this time. China has rejected the United States this time.
Why did China reject the United States this time?
It is generally believed that this is because the relationship between China and the United States is not good, including the military relationship between the two countries. This is a fact, but not the reason for rejecting the United States this time. Why? It’s true that the relationship is not good, but the economic and trade relationship between the two countries is also not good? Has the tariffs imposed by the United States on China since 2018 not been lifted? Has the United States not lifted its restrictions on Chinese high-tech enterprises? But on May 25th, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with US Commerce Minister Raymond and Trade Representative Dai Qi?
Using Marxist dialectical thinking to analyze problems is precisely because relationships are not good that we need to meet. The relationship is not good. If we don’t meet again, how can the relationship be better? In the game between China and the United States, China is not afraid of things and bad relations, but China’s goal is definitely not to intentionally make the relationship worse.
So, the poor relationship between China, the United States, and the two militaries is not the fundamental reason why China rejected the United States this time.
What is the root cause? In fact, it is a very specific matter that the United States imposed sanctions on a senior Chinese official named Li Shangfu in 2018. At that time, Li Shangfu was the Minister of Equipment Development of the People’s Liberation Army of China.
The sanctions imposed by the United States have no specific deadline, as long as they are not announced to be lifted, they will continue to be imposed.
However, Li Shangfu, the Minister of Equipment Development of the People’s Liberation Army of China, who was sanctioned by the United States at that time, was promoted to General in the second year and was elected as China’s Minister of Defense at the two sessions in March 2023.
The official the United States requested to meet with China this time was Li Shangfu.
Now it’s awkward! Even an ordinary Chinese citizen can understand the truth behind this.
From the perspective of Americans, his sanctions against Li Shangfu indicate that in his eyes, Li Shangfu is a bad person. Since you believe he is a bad person and still publicly announce it to the world, why do you still want to meet this person so lowly? Can’t you be a little tough? You are a magnificent American, every day of gunfight, don’t be too weak!
From the perspective of the Chinese people, you sanctioned me and I still met with you?
Do friends think this principle is very simple? Ordinary people understand it, but Americans just don’t understand it. So please understand that I refer to some of the practices in the United States as mental disabilities. We ordinary people generally believe that the affairs between countries are a very lofty task that requires high-level wisdom, which is not something that ordinary people can do or even understand. But, my friends, how many common people cannot understand the logic I just mentioned?
Have Americans thought of this layer yet? I think they should still have thought of it, why? The Group of Seven summit was held in Hiroshima, Japan from May 19th to 21st. During this summit, US President Biden once said that lifting sanctions against Li Shangfu is “under negotiation”. ‘Negotiating’ is Biden’s original phrase.
This indicates that they were not completely brainwashed, but still thought of this one. At least, after China reminded them, their logical level returned from being mentally disabled to normal.
Unfortunately, on the second day, a spokesperson for the US State Department clarified that the sanctions against Li Shangfu would not be lifted.
Since you don’t lift the sanctions against Li Shangfu, why do you still need to meet someone like Li Shangfu who is considered a bad person by your Americans? Are you shy or not? From the perspective of Chinese people, do you think I am a bad person? Do I still need to meet you?
To be honest, the United States was quite eager to meet with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu this time. For example, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo Pacific Affairs of the United States, Ratner, also said this sentence at a think tank seminar, stating that sanctions will not pose a legal obstacle to the meeting of the defense ministers of the two countries in a third country.
What does this mean? That means he specifically explained that although he saw the other person as a bad person, he was still willing to meet the bad person in his eyes. And he seems to be quite professional, especially emphasizing that it is possible to meet in a “third country”. Because, according to the US sanctions against Li Shangfu, the United States does not allow him to enter the United States.
I really want to help him say, since you think others are bad people, how can you meet bad people? How shy! So I said that sometimes the logical level of the United States is at the level of mental disability.
No matter what level he is at, what I want to say is that he really wants to meet and has put in some effort, whispering that he doesn’t mind meeting the “bad guys” in his eyes.
By the way, for a long time in the minds of Americans, if a high-ranking official like Defense Secretary Austin is willing to agree with someone, it is a great face and a gift to the other party.
But this time, he was so exhausted and hesitant to meet, but he couldn’t see him.
Next, let’s talk about how Americans will solve this problem in the future.
Firstly, we must note that Chinese people are not as logically chaotic as Americans. Today, they have sanctioned others, which means they are a bad person and will still lick their faces tomorrow to meet them. China will not engage in such logical chaos. So, this time, China did not agree to meet with the United States because the United States imposed sanctions on Li Shangfu in 2018. If the United States does not lift the sanctions, China may not agree to meet with the US Secretary of Defense.
So, to address this issue, the United States must lift sanctions against Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
So has the United States lifted sanctions against Li Shangfu?
I think the difficulties are quite significant.
The US sanctions against Li Shangfu are a political demand of a considerable number of people in the United States. The decision to sanction was made back then, but now it needs to be lifted. Whoever cancels it will offend that group of people. Those who offend will not vote for this candidate in next year’s US presidential election. For example, Biden has announced his intention to run in next year’s presidential election. Although Biden, who is 80 years old, fell again during his graduation ceremony at the US Air Force Academy on June 1st (fortunately, a White House spokesperson said he didn’t break it afterwards), Biden still wants to work for another four years starting from 2025.
So, if Biden lifts this sanction, he is prepared to offend a considerable number of people, who will not vote for him next year. This basically means that if Biden lifts the sanction against Li Shangfu, he will trade his presidency. Do you think he’s willing? Dare he? Even if he was willing, would the Democratic Party behind him allow him to be so organized and undisciplined?
This reason is fundamentally stated, but all fundamental reasons will manifest some seemingly grandiose reasons. The ostensible reason for this matter is that the sanctions against Li Shangfu at that time were based on facts and legal basis in the eyes of Americans. The fact is that Li Shangfu was in charge of the Equipment Development Department of the People’s Liberation Army at that time, responsible for importing Soviet 35 fighter jets, S400 air defense missiles, and other related matters from Russia. The legal basis is called the US Counterattack Against US Opponents with Sanctions Act.
The question now is, whether it is a fact or that fact, whether it is a law or that law. If you used to sanction others based on these facts and that law, and now you cancel sanctions based on that fact and law, wouldn’t that become a brainchild again?
So, will those in the United States who do not agree to lifting sanctions, such as the lords of Congress, let Biden pass this level?
So, even if Biden wants to lift the sanctions, it’s really a bit difficult.
At this point of analysis, we will find that in the case of US sanctions against Chinese official Li Shangfu, US sanctions have come and gone, ultimately imposing sanctions on ourselves. His own life is too difficult, 80 year old Biden, too difficult. No wonder on June 1st, Children’s Day, he fell again.
So let’s go back and talk about what benefits the United States has gained from sanctioning others. The specific measures taken by Americans to sanction others are one after another, which can be summarized as two: firstly, prohibiting the US financial system from dealing with them; secondly, prohibiting sanctioned individuals from going to the United States, such as not issuing visas to these individuals.
Are these two meaningful for Chinese officials like Li Shangfu? I don’t think it makes any sense.
I have analyzed before that the first item mentioned earlier is about the economy, which actually means restricting others from earning money through the United States. But the system in China is that Chinese officials are not allowed to do business (unlike American officials who are themselves big bosses), and continue to do business after stepping down. They were already doing business before taking office. Article 2 prohibits Chinese officials from going to the United States. Going to the United States involves both personal and official aspects, such as traveling, visiting family and friends, etc. My official duty is to go to the United States to handle affairs. Officials at the level of Li Shangfu are unlikely to travel to the United States, and there are strict disciplinary rules for visiting family and friends, so going to the United States can only be on official business. What does official business mean? Must he be invited by the United States for official business? The United States definitely wants to invite Li Shangfu to do some official business in the United States now, such as meeting with Austin. But the sanctions imposed by the United States on Li Shangfu mean that the United States does not allow him to go to the United States to do official business.
In summary, the US sanctions against Chinese officials like Li Shangfu have no impact on Chinese officials.
That is to say, the United States can’t catch anything.
But in the end? Now it has become like this: the United States has a desire to invite Li Shangfu to do official business in the United States, but the sanctions imposed by the United States have determined that Li Shangfu cannot do official business in the United States. Whoever issues a visa for Li Shangfu to go to the United States for official business violates US sanctions—- That will also be subject to sanctions from the United States. Then we can only prevent Li Shangfu from going to the United States for official business.
So, it is now the law in the United States that does not allow the United States to invite Li Shangfu to do official duties that Americans want to do. So who did you say the United States sanctioned in the end? Punish himself!
Do you think this is interesting?
We have found that the sanctions imposed by the United States are simply a play – especially against Chinese officials. Because his sanctions have no meaning for Chinese officials, they have taken a big detour and imposed sanctions on him.
Let’s continue with our analysis.
The United States has imposed sanctions on many officials in China, not just one or two, such as sanctioning officials from the Hong Kong and Macao offices due to the Hong Kong issue, or sanctioning officials from Xinjiang due to the Xinjiang issue.
However, Chinese officials are mobile, and those who perform well will be promoted in a few years. For example, officials from the Hong Kong and Macao offices are highly likely to be transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while officials from Xinjiang can also work in central ministries such as the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance, and may even work in the central government.
So today, the United States sanctioned officials from China’s Hong Kong and Macao offices and officials from Xinjiang. Tomorrow, officials from China’s Hong Kong and Macao offices may become foreign ministers, while officials from Xinjiang may become commerce ministers. The United States is also meeting with China’s foreign ministers and commerce ministers, but are these Chinese officials being sanctioned by the United States? The United States does not allow these officials to go to the United States. Even in a third country, Chinese people think that you think I am a bad person, so what else should I meet with you?
More importantly, officials who are subject to US sanctions are more likely to be promoted or transferred to important positions, as they are more determined to safeguard China’s interests. Just like Li Shangfu, he was sanctioned by the United States in the first year, promoted to general in the second year, and after four more years, became the Minister of Defense.
Sanction when you want to, and lift the sanctions when you want to meet, okay? I just analyzed it, it’s difficult. So the Americans completely tied themselves up and couldn’t move.
So we found that the sanctions imposed by Americans, especially in front of China, were simply a joke. Trump, the former President of the United States, has been the President for more than 1000 days. He has imposed sanctions on others for more than 3900 times, three times a day on average. In fact, it is essentially three jokes a day.
This is the governance of the United States.
This is the foreign policy and strategy of the United States.
Sanctions have come and gone, but in the end, they have all been imposed on themselves.
What does this mean? I would like to evaluate their governance strategy in the words of the common people:
It’s just fooling around.
What does this mean? We are now analyzing from the perspective of Americans (please note that I am analyzing from the perspective of Americans), which country, which team, which unit, and which family can withstand blind struggles?
What are the consequences of blindly tossing and turning? Friends think for themselves.
So I want to tell my friends that Chinese netizens like me are always confident in the future of China’s inevitable victory in the game between China and the United States. Why? We usually like to talk about China’s tremendous achievements, such as how much GDP has increased, how many aircraft carriers have been launched, how many spacecraft have been flown, and how many breakthroughs have been made in high-tech
And what I want to say today is that the first source of my confidence is not these specific things, but a relatively empty thing, which is that Americans are fooling around.
Let him toss and turn, no matter how powerful the country is, no matter how wealthy the family is, no matter how arrogant the team is As long as one tosses and turns blindly, one must inevitably lead to decline and even destruction. This principle is not profound, is it?
So, in ‘Who Will Defeat the United States in the Future?’, I clearly stated that it will not be China, nor Russia, nor any country, organization, or force in the world that will defeat the United States in the future. There is only one possibility of defeating the United States, and that is to defeat itself.
We apply the same principle to China itself in turn:
No one can defeat China, as long as China does not struggle and does its own thing well. The key point we need to guard against is not the United States, but some Chinese people always want to act recklessly or are planning to act recklessly, fearing that China will not become chaotic.
Suggest friends to carefully scan the people around them and online to see who they are.