Recently, the United States has had a lot of troubles. Democrats and Republicans are facing off on immigration, and the situation in the Middle East is becoming increasingly chaotic, with three U.S. soldiers killed in attacks by Iraqi Shiite forces.
Interestingly, the relationship between China and the United States has stabilized during this period, and on January 26-27, Wang Yi, director of the Foreign Affairs Office, and Sullivan, assistant to the United States, held a new round of meetings in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
It is worth mentioning that this time Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not make a special trip to hold talks with Sullivan, but the main arrangement of his trip was to sign an agreement with Thailand to allow the people of the two countries to enter each other visa-free from March 1.
The trip to meet with Sullivan was more like China's announcement that Foreign Minister Wang Yi would visit ThailandArranged at the temporary request of the United StatesThis is the biggest difference between this meeting and the previous two meetings.
*Foreign Affairs Office Director Wang Yi and US Affairs Assistant Jake Sullivan met Since the United States has such sincerity, it is more likely that the two sides will reach a certain degree of cooperation or tacit understanding.
During the talks, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, "* is the biggest challenge to China-US relations, so the United States must abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques and support China's peaceful reunification."
In addition, the two sides agreed to jointly implement the "San Francisco Vision" agreed by the Chinese and American heads of state in November last year, which is to promote exchanges between the two countries at all levels, make good use of the current strategic communication channels, and expand people-to-people exchanges.
In recent years, the words "joint promotion and joint implementation" have rarely been used to describe Sino-US relations, and since the Sino-US summit in November last year, such words have become more and more common.
To take the simplest example, this time Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed with Sullivan that the first meeting of the dialogue mechanism between China and the United States on artificial intelligence will be held this spring, and artificial intelligence is a key area for Biden to suppress and isolate China.
In view of the outcome of the talks between the two sides, CCTV News used a rare term like "fruitful strategic communication" when reporting on the incident.
U.S. ships escort merchant ships to prevent Houthi attacks and the consensus between China and the United States on issues such as climate change, military exchanges, and financial openness is on the table. In addition to these, there are also some things that need to be "guessed" by the outside world, such as the issue of shipping in the Red Sea.
The United States is trying to convince China that the Houthi attacks on merchant ships are also hurting China's interests; This is indeed true, because China itself is a maritime power.
China also wants the United States to think clearly that the root cause of the Red Sea issue is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and if this issue is not resolved, it should not think about putting China on the side of the United States, and the United States must adopt practical and effective measures to stop Israel's war crimes.
The exchanges between the Texas National Guard and the armed confrontation powers of the US military are themselves exchanges of interests again and again, but the difference is that China has clearly taken the initiative in Sino-US exchanges during this period.
The reason is very simple, 2024 is the first year of the United States, according to the political tradition of the United States, the previous years will try to seek stability, and there will be no big moves overseas, so the United States must cooperate with China on many international issues.
In addition, in recent days, the domestic crisis in the United States has risen sharply, and the two parties have been-for-tat on the immigration issue, and the 25 Republican governors issued a joint statement on the 25th to support Texas' approach on the immigration issue.
At the same time, there has been an armed standoff between the US federal ** and the National Guard, which is quite rare in the history of the United States in recent decades. In the face of incessant civil strife, it is normal for the United States to tend to be conservative in its foreign policy.
But from an objective point of view, this does not prove that the United States has changed its hostile policy towards China. At the same time as the high-level meeting with China, some small actions of the United States against China have not stopped.
He is also supporting the "** elements" in the Taiwan region, supporting the Philippines in constantly launching provocations in the South China Sea, and trying to pour dirty water on China on the Middle East issue.
The United States has not stopped encircling China in the economic, commercial and trade fields. De-escalation of relations with China is more like a delaying tactic by the United States in a short period of timeSino-US relations have only "stopped falling" and have not yet completely "stabilized", let alone seen a significant recovery.
In fact, many business leaders and insightful politicians in the United States hope that China and the United States can continue to cooperate and return to the previous pattern of fighting but not breaking, which is beneficial to both countries.
The key point is that the United States no longer has the strategic determination it used to be, anti-China has become politically correct, and neither of the two parties dares to truly ease relations with China. Recognizing the importance of Sino-US relations does not mean that we will ease and promote Sino-US relations, and there is still a big difference between the two.
Therefore, we still cannot relax our vigilance against the United States, and cooperation is needed where cooperation should be made, but while cooperating, we should still insist on independence and self-determination.
As far as China is concerned, the United States is a long-term strategic rival, and we must maintain a sober understanding of this when dealing with the United States, not in three or five years, but in 30 or 50 years.
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