In front of the media cameras, Yang Jiechi, who was scheduled to give a “short opening speech” at the high-level meeting between China and the United States, went on a rampage in a surprising manner, first speaking for 16 minutes and 14 seconds in one breath, and then for 3 minutes and 26 seconds after translation. By comparison, Blinken and Sullivan, who spoke before Yang, spoke for only 2 minutes and 27 seconds and 2 minutes and 17 seconds respectively. After Yang, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke, speaking for 4 minutes and 09 seconds.
Given that Yang Jiechi’s lengthy comments were seriously overtime, Blinken suggested that the dozen or so journalists present stay to hear the U.S. response. After the U.S. response, it was Time for the media to leave, but then Yang Jiechi turned directly to the television cameras and said in English, “Wait a minute. He then began his lengthy criticism of U.S. policy once again. In addition, absurdly, the Communist Party’s CCTV claimed that the U.S. side spoke out of time.
Some commentators say that the Chinese delegates appear to have focused on “public theater rather than substance” and “concentrated on public theater (performance) and exaggeration” because “exaggerated diplomatic speeches are usually directed at domestic audiences. is usually aimed at domestic audiences.
Yang Jiechi, who is over 70 years old and has been described as “gentle and elegant”, has worked in the U.S. Embassy for 12 years and knows the U.S. very well. The above-mentioned performance is certainly an act, but the purpose of the act is to make use of the issue to play out a “red line” to the U.S. side in a stern voice. This seemingly clumsy, reckless and naked declaration is in fact the CCP’s usual masterpiece to give the U.S. side a “downward spiral”.
In terms of acting, in line with Yang Jiechi, at around 12:00 noon, 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm on the 19th, the People’s Daily, an organ of the CPC Central Committee, released three “propaganda” on its microblog and other websites. The first one reads, “The Chinese do not want to be condescended to by the United States to speak to China” and “STOP INTERFERING IN CHINA’S INTERNALAFFAIRS” in English; the second one is a picture of Wang Yi with the text “China has never, is never, and will never accept groundless accusations from the United States, and at the same time we demand that the U.S. side completely abandon its hegemonic practice of interfering in China’s internal affairs, and that this old problem of the U.S. needs to be corrected”; the last one shows a photo of the 1901 Treaty of Xin Chou, an unequal treaty signed between the Qing Empire and the powers, with the 2021 “The last one is a photo of the 1901 Treaty of Xin Chou, an unequal treaty between the Qing Empire and the powers, and a photo of the 2021 U.S.-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue as “a comparison of the two years of Xin Chou,” with a posting that reads, “You are not qualified to say in front of China that you talk to China from a position of strength. “.
Yang Jiechi’s acting is extremely unusual in diplomacy, not “diplomacy” but “war diplomacy”; his “red line” for the United States is far beyond his personal authority. He is acting on the orders of the Chinese Communist authorities.
First, the U.S. is in decline, a process greatly accelerated by the Great Plague and the 2020 election controversy; second, a qualitative change is taking place in the contrast between U.S. and Chinese power (China’s economy may surpass the U.S.’s by 2028); and third, the Communist Party’s top brass has set the tone that the U.S. is the biggest threat to the Communist Party, and will “show its sword” to the U.S. if necessary. “light up the sword”.
The CCP’s strategic posture toward the U.S. is shifting from passive, defensive, and contracting under the Trump administration to active, offensive, and expanding. This shift is manifested in the following two quotes from Xi Jinping – the “Theory of Current Situation” and the “Theory of Equal Vision.
The first paragraph, on January 11 this year, at a seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, Xi said: the world is undergoing a major change that has not been seen in a century, but the time and the situation are on our side, which is where our strength and strength, as well as our determination and confidence.
The second paragraph, the afternoon of March 6 this year, visiting the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference to attend the meeting of the medical and health Education sector, Xi said: “70, 80, 90, 00, before they go out to see the world, China can already look at the world, and not like we were so ‘earthy’ ……” Xi speaks of “looking at the world”, which is essentially “looking at the United States”.
Xi’s “current situation theory” and “flat view theory” directly drive the CCP’s “War Wolf diplomacy”. It was because of the top echelon of the CCP that Yang Jiechi dared to set aside diplomatic practices and go on a rampage in the first high-level Sino-US meeting since Biden took office.
Yang Jiechi’s outburst implies that the CCP’s real threat to the United States has become quite serious and that the CCP itself does not care to hide it anymore.
Here are two speeches by two CCP think tanks as evidence. The first, Jin Canrong, director of the Center for Foreign Strategic Studies at Renmin University of China, is nicknamed by netizens as the “national teacher” and “political commissar. On July 23, 2016, Jin Canrong gave a lecture in Guangzhou on the topic of “Sino-US Strategic Philosophy” and spoke for two full days. He said, “When foreigners ask you what national rejuvenation is, you can answer with a bicentennial. But I believe that for President Xi national rejuvenation is to surpass the United Kingdom and catch up with the United States, that is, to be a handful”; “Currently there are two countries with global strategies, one is China and the other is the United States …… President Xi came up and proposed the first global strategy in China’s history “; “the original we save power dare not use, President Xi is a new leader, he dares to use, this is different, then the power dare not use also useless, President Xi is the dare to use ……”
In a December 23, 2020, China-Japan link-up lecture co-hosted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the U.S.-China New Perspectives Foundation on “The Next Step in U.S.-China Relations,” Shi Yinhong said, “If If China can appropriately but significantly slow down its high rate of strategic military buildup after the so-called ‘spurt’ of strategic military power it already has, then U.S. arms competition with China is likely to be mitigated”; “For China, first, it must resolutely and sufficiently and more permanently implement a strategic military contraction – in the South China Sea, Taiwan, and arms competition – as a basic bargaining condition to seek a corresponding contraction by the Biden Administration sooner or later in order to foster a new strategic stability between the U.S. and China, to seek to divide the U.S. political class against China, and to seek more sympathy and understanding for China from as many other countries in the international community as possible. “
From the contrasting views of Jin Canrong and Shi Yinhong, does the threat and ambition of the Chinese Communist Party become more clear?
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