The U.S.-China High-Level Diplomatic Summit 2021 was held in Anchorage, Alaska, for two days starting March 18, with opening statements from both sides full of fireworks. But analysis suggests that what was actually talked about in the closed-door meeting is the key.
The Biden administration’s first meeting of high-level U.S. and Chinese diplomats completed two days of talks in Alaska on Friday, March 19. According to well-known commentator Paul Lin, the U.S.-China talks were all for show on the surface, but the key lies in the content of the final closed-door meeting.
After the talks, the U.S. representative, Secretary of State Blinken, issued a brief post-meeting statement to the media, saying that the U.S. side raised the issues of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, Taiwan and cyber attacks with the Chinese side during the meeting, and unsurprisingly the Chinese side once again took a contradictory response to these topics. But Blinken stressed that the two sides had a frank dialogue on a wide range of topics, and that U.S. and Chinese interests are intertwined on Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and climate issues. Well-known commentator Lin Baohua (pseudonym Ling Feng) told the station that the key to the talks is what was talked about in the final closed-door meeting, depending on whether the U.S. continues sanctions and increases the power of sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party?
The United States, of course, wants to show their firm position, China is to show the people at Home, that they “anti-American empire” is very determined! The United States wants to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, of course China agrees. What does it matter to China whether the United States withdraws its troops or not? What is there to talk about? Can the Hong Kong issue be negotiated, can the Taiwan issue be negotiated? Is there no consensus at all between the two sides, or is there a consensus in some places? The one-China Policy or the one-China principle? I don’t know how to talk about it. We are not concerned about the cooperation or non-cooperation in the climate conference.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement after the meeting, saying that during the talks, Chinese representatives emphasized to the Biden Administration the ruling status of the Chinese Communist Party; and asked the Biden administration to eliminate the Trump administration’s policy toward China and not to interfere with China’s practices on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Lin Baohua said: The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that after the talks, there are still differences, that is, not all of them have been settled, and there are still some differences between the two sides that cannot be settled, so we are wondering, what is not settled?
The United States is still recognizing the status quo. The U.S. is still recognizing the status quo, which is your internal affairs I do not care ah? If this deal is done, it will be a problem, recognizing China’s status quo. The South China Sea islands were previously demilitarized, but now that China has militarized them, what do you do? Do you admit it? Chinese military planes have been coming and going in Taiwan’s airspace, before there was none, now there is, how about that? Do you acknowledge its status quo? Or do you shoot it back? If you still don’t recognize the status quo, then what is there to talk about? The key is whether the U.S. is going to strengthen sanctions? If China does not retreat and the U.S. does not enter, then it’s over. The status quo is changing, China keeps pushing forward and the U.S. is losing ground.
Bloomberg reports that the talks ended without any announcement, indicating that the U.S. and China were unable to reach the low level set before the talks. The outcome of the meeting also suggests that neither government is pressing for cooperation from the other.
Paul Lin is not optimistic about the outcome of this first high-level U.S.-China meeting under the Biden administration. He believes that the U.S. should show hard power like the Trump Administration has shown in the past in order for the relationship to radically improve in the future.
The Qing government was forced to establish a constitutional monarchy only as a result of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, like the Xin Chou Treaty. If the United States only stop at words, China will progress? Harden up, ah, must be hard to China step back, this is the achievement. If China does not step back, then any verbal mouth shouting is useless. Dialogue for how many years, the more dialogue the United States backward, Trump did not have a few days to come out of a measure to fight, which depends on how the Biden administration behind.
This Time, the U.S. and China’s top brass in the first day of face-to-face talks on the 18th, had tit-for-tat in front of the media cameras, not giving in to each other, a rare public display of tension between the United States and China. As a result, the domestic A-share stock market fell on Friday, with the CSI 300 index closing down 2.62%, the biggest drop since March 8.
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