U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad welcomes Chinese Communist Party Vice President Wang Qishan to an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of U.S.-China diplomatic relations on Jan. 10, 2019.
Since Biden took power, the top brass of the Chinese Communist Party has been shouting at the Biden Administration one after another and making big moves to attack Taiwan to test Biden’s bottom line. 29 January, Wang Qishan, known as the manipulator of U.S.-China negotiations, also broke his silence to shout that the U.S. and China should focus on cooperation and manage differences.
On January 29, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan met by video message in Beijing with U.S. representatives attending the 12th round of the U.S.-China Business Leaders and Former Senior Officials Dialogue.
He said that China and the United States should uphold the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation, focus on cooperation and manage differences, which is the key to promote the stable development of Sino-US relations.
Wang Qishan added that although China and the United States have had a low ebb of friction and conflict and disagreement for more than 40 years of diplomatic relations, they have also enjoyed the dividends of moving in the same direction, proving that the common interests of cooperation between China and the United States outweigh the differences.
For their part, the U.S. representatives said that the U.S. and China should move in the same direction in the next phase, looking for the maximum convention of cooperation between the two sides to ensure the stable development of U.S.-China relations. At the same Time, the U.S. business community will continue to push the Biden administration and the Chinese side to strengthen dialogue and communication.
Wang Qishan was once considered to be the manipulator of the U.S.-China negotiations. Early on, before and after Wang Qishan became vice president, foreign media have said that Wang Qishan would take the helm of diplomacy for Xi Jinping, especially in leading U.S.-China relations.
Wang Qishan has a background in finance and has experience dealing with the United States. However, Wang Qishan has kept a low profile in the U.S.-China trade war.
After Biden took office on January 20, 2021, the top brass of the Communist Party of China (CPC) sent successive signals to Biden to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on U.S.-China relations.
In a video message at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 25, Xi said 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 also said that he opposes “moving to delink, cut off supplies, sanctions”, “trade wars, science and technology wars”, and called for abandoning “ideological bias” and “no conflict and confrontation”. He also called for the abandonment of “ideological bias”, “no conflict and confrontation”, “cold war and hot war”, etc.
Although Xi did not explicitly name the United States, it is widely believed that Xi was shouting at the incoming Biden administration to return to the Obama-era policies and continue to allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate, expand and steal.
From Jan. 26 to 27, CCP Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai shouted at the United States for two consecutive days. He said that the only correct choice for China and the United States is “cooperation” and that the United States should face China with rationality and sincerity.
Cui Tiankai also proposed that China and the U.S. should “four wants and four don’ts”: mutual trust, not misjudgment; dialogue, not confrontation; cooperation, not strife; and communication, not isolation.
On January 28, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng also publicly called for U.S.-China cooperation and said the two countries are not destined to fall into the “Thucydides trap.
Then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden welcome Xi Jinping during his visit to Washington, D.C., in September 2015.
On the day Xi Jinping shouted at Biden, White House spokeswoman Sharkey responded that Biden would be “patient” with the U.S.-China relationship, and Biden’s nominee for ambassador to the U.N., Greenfield, said on the 27th that the Chinese Communist Party is a strategic adversary of the United States and a threat to its neighbors and the world.
The Chinese Communist Party’s top brass wants to talk to Biden as soon as possible and has raised the price in advance, but Biden used the phrase “strategic patience” to imply that there is no possibility of talks in the short term, according to Epoch Times commentator Zhong Yuan.
Zhong Yuan said Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone, but left Xi Jinping out of the conversation, so Xi naturally did not have any “determination”, but it seems that all the cards have been played and there is nothing to do for the time being.
Radio Free Asia quoted an American scholar as saying that after Biden took office, Xi Jinping shouted in the air, a move that underscores Beijing’s urgency. The U.S. sees the CCP as a strategic competitor that will not go away anytime soon, and Beijing now can only use shouting to create space, which shows that the CCP has run out of tricks.
Another scholar believes that the U.S. and China have just kicked off the game, and both are testing each other’s realities.
It is noteworthy that after Biden took office, he signed a series of executive orders and overturned many executive orders of the Trump administration, including banning the federal government from saying “China virus”, postponing the ban on investment in Chinese military companies, removing the China (CCP) threat from the U.S. Department of State website, 5G security and so on.
In addition, after Biden took office, Chinese military aircraft frequently harassed Taiwan and held military exercises in the South China Sea. But the Biden administration did not counterattack, but claimed to adopt a “strategic patience”. Meanwhile, Blinken, who just took office as secretary of state, stressed the need for prudence in supporting Taiwan and referred to Tsai as “Taiwan’s elected representative”.
The outside world believes that Biden’s handling of U.S.-China relations is verbally tough on the Chinese Communist Party, but extremely weak in performance, and it is worth watching whether the so-called “strategic patience” will evolve into an “appeasement” policy in practice.
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