Recent high-level developments in the United States show that they have been exhausted in the Russia-Ukraine and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts, and cannot pay attention to Asia-Pacific affairs at the same time, so they have begun to actively interact with China in an attempt to maintain regional stability.
In mid-January, Biden publicly stated that the United States supports the vision of "peaceful reunification" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, which will help ease the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
Last week, U.S. Security Adviser Jake Sullivan made an emergency visit to Bangkok, Thailand, hoping to open a channel for "two-way exchanges" through this "one-way approach" to stabilize Sino-US relations.
In the coming months, China and the United States are likely to engage in dialogue in areas such as artificial intelligence, and Blinken and Yellen may also visit China again.
At the same time, on the same day that the Chinese and Russian defense ministers emphasized strengthening cooperation, the United States also lowered its tone to China. The White House noted that China and the United States are interdependent and have common interests in resolving international problems and reducing the risk of conflict. Over the past few months, the U.S.-China ministry has successfully revived a number of important mechanisms of cooperation at the operational level, which is "critical" at a time of tension between the two sides.
The United States wants China to play a role in stabilizing the global situation, and it is also dealing with the problems of eastern Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Most of America's allies in the Asia-Pacific region are beginning to take a more cautious approach. Japan, for example, sent a large delegation to China last week to discuss economic cooperation.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida rarely softened his tone on Japan-China and Japan-Russia relations in his policy speech, saying that he would develop "constructive" relations with China, and at the same time said that he would do his best to promote territorial negotiations and accelerate the implementation of the "peace agreement" between Japan and Russia. Although this attitude is not a 180-degree change, Japan has begun to not want to follow the United States blindly and wants to leave a way out for itself and bet on both sides.
In this case, the best option for the United States is to find a "scapegoat" to help charge into the front and continue to cause trouble for China, while the United States acts behind the scenes. But as long as it is a country that has a certain right to speak, it definitely does not want to become this role.
Now Japan is rushing to make overtures with China in order to avoid being targeted by the United States as a scapegoat. Isolated by other member states within ASEAN, and with the Marcos family at the helm of the Philippines inextricably linked to the United States, the Philippines would naturally become a target of the United States.
If the Philippines becomes the "scapegoat" of the United States, then the country will be a living demonstration to the world of what tragic consequences "comprador rule" will incur.
The United States' practice of sacrificing its "allies" in exchange for strategic buffer space is also quenching its thirst. In the stage of the decline of hegemony, the ** people of the United States are using one less person. Ukraine and Israel have been ignited by the flames of war, and if the Philippines also becomes a "consumable", then the pillar on which the United States relies to maintain global hegemony may soon fall to nothing, and there is only one step left before it becomes an "isolated island".