On March 22, the U.S. Treasury Department announced further sanctions against Chinese Communist Party officials, including Wang Junzheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chen Mingguo, Vice Chairman of the People’s Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Chen Mingguo, head of the Autonomous Region’s Public Security Department. Chen Guanguo, the Party Secretary and political member of the Xinjiang Party Committee, who was sanctioned last July, and others, have been given company again. No real détente is in sight in U.S.-China relations.
On March 22, Xinhua reported, “Foreign Ministry: U.S.-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue is Timely and Useful,” repeating the words of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying at a press conference that day, saying, “The door to continued dialogue is always open. It seems that the top brass of the Communist Party of China is very worried about whether the dialogue between China and the United States can continue. Incredibly, Xinhua added a sentence of its own to the headline on the front page of its website, “Hope the U.S. side will show the confidence and poise expected of a big country. This phrase is really a snake adding to the cake, deliberately revealing the concern about the U.S. flip-flopping. The CCP is actually quite unconfident, and is now afraid of regretting its excessive war-wolf performance.
Before one wave subsides, another wave rises. On March 22, the EU, UK and Canada announced sanctions against CCP officials one after another, more like they were negotiated. Not learning from the lessons of the U.S.-China talks, the CCP announced counter-sanctions against the EU almost simultaneously, including a total of 10 people including MEPs, Dutch, Belgian and Lithuanian parliamentarians and academics, as well as four institutions, and said the EU “should stop acting as the ‘human rights teacher master’ “.
The Chinese Communist Party has just screwed up the Sino-US dialogue, and it looks like it will screw up China-EU relations. The CCP’s counter-sanctions against the EU are almost unthinking and very different from its attitude toward the US. Although Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi deliberately overplayed their hand, the CCP Foreign Ministry and CCP media quickly cooled down and did not shout “human rights teacher” at the US.
The CCP challenged the U.S. in person, not recognizing U.S. hegemony or international rules, but turned around and tried to continue dialogue with the U.S. In the face of U.S. tariffs and technology sanctions, the top echelons of the CCP actually begged the U.S., but at heart they wanted to fight for hegemony too much, and thought the Biden administration would be weaker than the Trump administration, and even misjudged that the opportunity to become bigger had come, so the CCP emboldened the U.S. to implement war-wolf diplomacy.
Now, when the Chinese Communist Party itself is riding a tiger, the EU, Britain and Canada announced sanctions at this Time, which can be considered appropriate. The Chinese Communist Party dares to be rude to the U.S., and will not take the EU seriously, so it will retaliate immediately. In this way, the concessions made by the Chinese Communist Party on the China-EU Investment Agreement at the end of last year should be offset. The Chinese Communist Party had hoped to use the trade agreement to draw Europe in and divide the alliance between Europe and the United States, but now that it is going down the drain, the Chinese Communist Party is even less likely to fulfill its promise.
The EU’s sanctions came a little late, but they were well-timed, coming right on the heels of the stiff U.S.-China talks and once again making the Chinese Communist Party show its true colors. Europe’s sanctions are not enough. If we really want to bring the Communist Party to its knees, we need stronger economic and technological sanctions, which Trump and Pompeo have already drawn up, so just do it. Without strong countermeasures and leverage against the Chinese Communist regime, it will be difficult to be effective.
The U.S.-China talks should also have taught Western countries the lesson that the manners of mainstream Western society do not apply to the CCP’s rogue diplomacy. In addition, the U.S. still has a key omission in the talks, failing to mention the Epidemic recourse. The U.S. government has at least previously stated that the CCP is not transparent in its information about the epidemic, and in its statement after this meeting, the U.S. again ignored this major topic and did not adequately reflect public opinion. This should also be one of the main reasons for the perceived weakness of the CCP.
Although the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to use the epidemic for hegemony did not really succeed, it did cause unquantifiable loss of Life and economic damage to the U.S. and Western countries. Now that there is a clear trend of the resurgence of the epidemic in Europe, both Europe and the United States need to seriously learn a lesson and hold the CCP accountable to the end for concealing the epidemic, and not to let the CCP get away with it again, let alone give the CCP another chance to perform as a War Wolf.
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