Scholars: Yang Jiechi’s “bull’s-eye” to drag China into danger

Yang Jiechi (right), director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Office, and others, hold talks with top U.S. officials in Alaska on March 18.

Yang Jiechi, the top diplomat of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Wang Yi, the foreign minister of the CPC, are still in the spotlight for their scolding show at the beginning of the US-China talks. According to some scholars, the two are just a “bull’s-eye” for Xi Jinping to “level the world”. Their performance and logic are consistent with those of the late Qing dynasty officials, and will drag China into danger.

In the first high-level U.S.-China meeting since the Biden administration took office, Yang Jiechi, director of the CCP Foreign Affairs Office, and Wang Yi, CCP Foreign Minister, flew to Alaska in mid-March to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Yang Jiechi opened the meeting by defying diplomatic etiquette, saying that the U.S. is not qualified to talk to China in a condescending manner, “because the Chinese don’t eat this kind of stuff. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that it was time for the United States to change its old habits.

On April 6, the Vision Foundation held a symposium on “Implications of U.S. Senior Officials’ Asia-Europe Trip: Taiwan Perspectives,” Ma Zhenkun, director of the Institute of Military Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party at National Defense University in Taiwan, said that Yang Jiechi’s speech at the U.S.-China talks had set off a wave of nationalism on the mainland, which had also spread to the Chinese Communist Party’s military, with more activities in the air and sea around Taiwan. This trend has also spread to the Chinese Communist Party’s military, which has become more active in the air and sea around Taiwan.

After the U.S.-China talks and Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Europe, NATO countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany immediately announced that they would send or declare their intention to conduct “freedom of navigation” operations in the waters around the South China Sea and the first island chain.

The Chinese Communist Party’s official media and online public opinion called it the “New Eight-Nation Alliance”. According to Chinese military experts, this is a warning signal.

Ma Zhenkun said, “Don’t forget that at the end of the Qing Empire, there were many negotiations and wars between the imperial court and other powers, and there were too many painful lessons learned at the end of the Qing Dynasty, because the imperial court put face above the real national interests, which led to tragedies.

In his opinion, Yang Jiechi’s 17-minute speech in Alaska emphasized the national dignity of the Communist Party of China (CPC), especially that “Chinese people do not eat this”, a logic consistent with that of the imperial officials at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which will make China fall into the danger of international politics.

Ma Zhenkun analyzed that the reality of today’s international politics is that there are exchanges of interests and trade-offs between countries, but when Yang Jiechi raises China’s foreign posture to a state of “not eating this”, it will make China’s diplomatic work difficult in the future.

Lv Yue, a senior media figure, also published an article analyzing that the Alaska China-US High-Level Dialogue, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi are just two “cattle knives” in Xi Jinping’s hands to “level the world”.

Since Xi Jinping declared his intention to “level the world” and put forward the world view of “rising in the east and falling in the west,” the Chinese Communist Party’s war-wolf diplomacy has escalated, ranting around the world, cursing the United States, France, Canada and Japan.

According to Lv Yue, the war wolf performance of Wang Yi and others has long been deeply rooted in people’s hearts, but Yang Jiechi, who has been a long-sleeved dancer in American politics for nearly 40 years, has staged a rant that even his subordinate Zhao Lijian could not expect, which just shows the aggressive and expansive nature of Xi’s thinking, which will surely bring instability to the Asia-Pacific and the whole world.

The Chinese Communist Party keeps creating tensions in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea

In addition to war-wolf diplomacy, the CCP has been creating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region in recent years. 2020 saw the CCP send more than 380 warplanes to harass the Taiwan Strait. In 2021, the Chinese Communist Party will increase its harassment efforts, further heating up the situation in the Taiwan Strait. The CCP has also harassed the Diaoyu Islands, sending four maritime police vessels on a patrol of the islands on March 23 alone.

At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party also provoked in the South China Sea, through the deployment of a large number of vessels in the disputed sovereignty area, the construction of artificial islands and other acts, trying to expand the sovereignty of the South China Sea, from March 7 sent more than 220 Chinese fishing boats to gather in the disputed area between China and the Philippines, triggering the Philippines and Vietnam to seriously protest, the maritime situation is tense.

The revised National Defense Law passed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the implementation of the Maritime Police Law have also put tremendous pressure on Japan and other countries with which the CPC has territorial disputes.

In recent days, the Chinese Communist Party has dispatched the Liaoning ship in an expeditionary formation to cross the Miyako Strait into the Western Pacific Ocean, while frequently launching harassment campaigns by fishing and official vessels in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Sea, using the Chinese Communist Party’s militia as the front line to exert excessive pressure. The outside world describes it as the “second navy”. U.S. think-tank experts say that the Chinese Communist Party’s methods are “very sinister.

Ma Zhenkun mentioned at the symposium that the so-called “Rise of a Great Power” documentary made by the Chinese Communist Party during the Hu Jintao era emphasized the need to rise in a civilized manner. However, the current actions of the CCP in the Taiwan Strait are not in line with the propaganda values. The rise of a great power with military hegemony will eventually provoke a common resistance from all countries around the world.

On April 5, the United States, Japan, Australia and India, members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), conducted a joint military exercise in the Bay of Bengal to counteract the Chinese Communist Party. Some Indian scholars said that the Chinese Communist Party should be worried that if Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries intend to join the Quad dialogue and provide their own naval bases for other countries to use, the Chinese Communist Party will face a more serious situation.