Recently, the three-day Munich Security Conference was officially held, and China and the United States also met at this meeting. At this meeting, the Chinese side mentioned that the United States had conducted an unwarranted nuisance and interrogation of Chinese citizens during this period, and left a sentence as a warning: Don't take evil as small, and don't take good as small.
This sentence is the words of Liu Bei's edict to his son Liu Chan before he died. One thing to say, this thing is a so-called piece of soup. When China uses this kind of rhetoric to prevaricate the United States, it basically means that the Chinese side has decided that what the Americans say is useless and that there is no point in talking to them.
First of all, the composition of Biden's personnel has already decided to limit the inability of the White House to fulfill any agreements. Not to mention the Republican Party's constraints on the White House, even Biden's policies within the White House cannot be effectively implemented. What's more, Biden is not the top decision-maker in the White House either.
In the last **, Biden made a very risky decision in order to stabilize his vote base and increase his approval rating and vote count. That is to split his power to the various ** in the White House.
The reason why he made such a decision is because Trump basically has the support of the white people at the bottom of the United States, which is the largest base in the current American vote base. If Biden wants to win against Trump, he must have the collective support of everyone but whites. Because of this, Biden has assembled what is called the most "diverse" cabinet in American history.
In Biden's cabinet, we have witnessed the first Native Cabinet Secretary in American history, the first Latino Secretary of Homeland Security, the first openly gay Cabinet member, the first Black Secretary of Defense, the first Black female deputy **, and so on. In this cabinet, whites were completely excluded.
But there is another flaw in this pluralistic cabinet, that is, Biden, who calls for pluralism himself, is too unpluralistic, he is not only a typical old white man, but also participated in the political ** movement against blacks when he was young. So he had to promise to split power into the cabinet. So this inherently determines that it will be difficult for the Biden cabinet to reach a unity on political issues. After all, it is a deformed product made by mutual compromise.
And then there are the constraints from the Republican Party. It's easy to say that the political system in the United States is basically such that the White House is responsible for proposing policies, then discussing them in Congress, enacting them into law, and finally handing them over to various agencies in the United States for implementation.
Under normal circumstances, the party that can get the top position can also have a majority in Congress. In this way, the U.S. government decree will be passed and issued. But this Biden ** is very unfortunate, or very normal, that the speaker of Congress and the majority of seats in Congress fell into the hands of the Republican Party. As a result, the decree proposed by the White House is very likely to be stuck in Congress and cannot be passed at all.
In particular, the US ** budget bill, which has not been passed since the end of last year until this year. No matter how the White House revises its budget proposal, Congress will not pass it, and as long as the White House does not meet the Republican demands, they will not pass any agreement.
In fact, when McCarthy, the Republican establishment in the United States, was the speaker of Congress, he was still more inclined to the Democratic Party, and some of the Democratic Party's policies that were harsh on the Republican Party would still be passed by McCarthy for the sake of the country's face. As a result, at the end of October, the Democrats removed McCarthy from the position of speaker through political means, which was regarded as the stupidest honey operation of the Democrats.
Because the majority of seats in Congress is still in the hands of the Republican Party in the United States. The Democrats' actions are clearly telling the Republicans that whoever cooperates with them will die. So then the Republican Party chose a hardcore mega Mike Johnson as McCarthy's successor. Since then, the US Congress and the White House have officially broken up, and any policy that is even slightly unfavorable to the Republican Party cannot be passed in Congress.
This is the second reason why the United States is currently unable to agree on political issues.
And the last reason is the United States. And this reason is the most crucial reason. The political directions of Biden and Trump are not very different, but they are also irrelevant. In addition, Trump's basic plan is anti-China, so no matter what we negotiate with Biden, it is possible that it will be directly overthrown after Trump takes office.
Therefore, there is nothing to talk about between China and the United States now, and it is precisely for this reason that China did not make any substantive remarks at this meeting, but only persuaded the United States not to take the good as small and not to take the evil as small. As for how much the Americans will listen, only God knows.