On February 14, 2012, Xi Jinping, then Vice President of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held talks with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
After Biden took power, from Xi Jinping’s overhead shouting that he should not engage in a “new cold war” and “bullying” to Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai’s appeal to the U.S. government, which sparked outside concerns. Some scholars believe that this shows that Zhongnanhai is getting anxious and is using all kinds of tactics to launch an offensive against the current U.S. administration.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping delivered a video message at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 26. Although he did not explicitly name the United States, it is widely believed that Xi was shouting at the incoming Biden Administration.
The international community should be governed according to rules and consensus reached by all countries, rather than being dictated by one or a few countries,” Xi said in his message.
Xi’s remarks were seen as a call to arms to Biden to return to Obama-era policies and continue to allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate, expand and steal.
Xi also said that he would “maintain the smooth and stable supply chain of the global industrial chain” and that “scientific and technological achievements should benefit all mankind” and not “move to engage in decoupling, cutting off supply and sanctions” and “trade wars and technology wars”, and also called for abandoning “ideological bias” and “not engaging in conflict and confrontation” and “cold and hot wars”.
Epoch Times commentator Zhong Yuan said Xi Jinping actually hoped to meet with Biden as soon as possible and shouted a higher price in advance, but Biden used the phrase “strategic patience” to imply that there was no possibility of talks in the short term. Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone, leaving Xi alone. Xi naturally did not have the “determination”, but it seems that he has played all his cards, and there is nothing he can do for the Time being.
On the same day, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai gave an exclusive interview to CCTV to talk about the U.S.-China relationship again. He said that the direction of U.S.-China relations still depends on the next substantive policy of the United States, and the key is “whether the United States can accept the development of a country like China, which is very different from it.
Talking about the trade war, Cui Tiankai declared that if someone must come hard, the Chinese Communist Party is not afraid, “to the end,” but he added: “The first phase of the economic and trade agreement between the United States and China, it should be said that this agreement is beneficial to both countries …… we still do a lot of efforts to implement this agreement.
In this regard, Zhong Yuan analysis, Cui Tiankai answer is very awkward, revealing the helplessness of the top echelon of the Chinese Communist Party. Cui Tiankai’s words indicate that the top echelon of the Chinese Communist Party cannot wait quietly in such helplessness, may next completely lose “determination” and take desperate measures? It is worth watching.
After Cui Tiankai, Yang Jiechi, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee, has also publicly stated that he will also address the United States.
According to Zhong Yuan, the Chinese Communist Party’s series of high-profile actions are apparently tough, but they only want to raise the price, while Biden’s “strategic patience” is tantamount to putting up a war-free card, neither responding to war nor eager to negotiate peace. While such a gesture may give Biden room to maneuver, it may drive the CCP top brass to extremes.
Then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden welcome Xi Jinping during his visit to the U.S. capital in Washington, D.C., in September 2015.
U.S.-China game too long to be too good in the short term
On the day of Xi’s call, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki responded that Biden would be “patient” with U.S.-China relations, that a more defensive approach was needed to protect U.S. technology, and that he would work with allies to stop the Chinese Communist Party’s economic abuses on many fronts.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the Biden administration’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, also said publicly on 27 May that the Chinese Communist Party is a strategic adversary of the United States, a challenge to U.S. Security, values and way of Life, and a threat to its neighbors and the world.
In his nomination hearing, new Secretary of State John Blinken also said that former President Trump was right to take a tough stance against the Chinese Communist Party and agreed with Pompeo‘s decision to find the Chinese Communist Party guilty of “genocide” in Xinjiang.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has also said that the Chinese Communist Party is the biggest challenge to the United States and will focus its strategy on Asia, especially the Chinese Communist Party.
Radio Free Asia cited the analysis of Ye Yaoyuan, chair of the Department of International Studies and Contemporary Languages at the University of St. Thomas, who said that Xi Jinping’s on-air shouting through the “Davos Forum” after Biden took power underscored Beijing‘s eagerness.
He believes that the U.S. sees the CCP as a strategic competitor that will not disappear anytime soon, and that Beijing can only shout now to create space, showing that the CCP has exhausted its tricks.
Ye Yaoyuan said that the CCP has always lived in its own stratosphere of internal and external propaganda, always treating outside criticism and suggestions as malicious prejudice, so the global “suspicion of China” atmosphere will not disappear in a short time.
Another scholar believes that the U.S.-China game has only just begun, and Beijing’s repeated statements may be a sign of anxiety, but both the U.S. and China are testing each other’s reality, and both sides have many sets of scripts.
It is worth noting that after Biden took office, he signed a series of executive orders, while overturning many executive orders of the Trump Administration, Biden signed a new executive order on the 26th, prohibiting the federal government from saying “China virus” (China virus).
Although the earliest outbreak of the Chinese Communist virus was in Wuhan, China, the Biden administration banned the use of the term “China virus,” arguing that it would constitute discrimination against Asian Americans.
In addition, before and after Biden’s visit to Taiwan, Chinese military aircraft harassed Taiwan’s airspace dozens of times in 25 days in a row, and announced an upcoming large-scale military exercise in the South China Sea. However, the Biden administration did not take any substantive counter-attack, but declared that it would adopt “strategic patience” in U.S.-China relations.
The outside world believes that Biden is verbally tough but extremely weak in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, and it is worth watching whether the so-called “strategic patience” will evolve into a policy of “appeasement” in actual actions.
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