Beijing intentionally insults US diplomats
An American analyst: For decades, Washington has not used the available tools in dealing with China
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Push and pull feature in US-China relations.
Despite the tireless attempts to improve relations between the two countries, behaviors on various levels surface from time to time, the most recent of which was the recent visit of US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to China.
China once again deliberately insulted American diplomats, this time in the Chinese city of Tianjin on July 26.
The victim was Sherman, the most senior official in the administration of US President Joe Biden, to visit China.
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Zhang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute for Policy Studies and a member of its advisory board, said Beijing used the meeting with Sherman as well as the now infamous meeting, which took place last March in Anchorage, Alaska, not to cooperate with the United States. , but to launch a propaganda campaign against Washington.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng, for example, has publicly accused the United States of trying to root out the Chinese regime.
"There is a campaign by an entire government, an entire society, that is being waged to bring down China," he said, according to the China Daily newspaper during Sherman's visit.
Xie went so far as to hand Sherman during their meeting two lists containing what he described as Beijing's demands.
"China for the first time has given the United States a list of red lines and a corrective measure to be taken to repair relations," the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post said.
It's not a coincidence
And it was no coincidence that Shih was chosen for the task of confronting Sherman.
Zhang said that Beijing had initially offered the US diplomat, who was about to take a trip to Japan, South Korea and Mongolia, to meet with Xie, the fifth in the hierarchy in the Foreign Ministry.
In response, the US State Department canceled the stop in China, due to this deliberate insult to Sherman, who ranks second in the department.
The US side agreed to hold a meeting in China, only after Beijing offered to meet Sherman with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the second-in-command in the Chinese regime, who is Sherman's counterpart.
Sherman had already met with Wang, but then Beijing omitted this important fact in its propaganda, only stating that Sherman had met with Xie Feng.
This insult came as a reflection of Beijing's attempt to insult US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this year.
And Zhang says President Joe Biden is especially wrong to unnecessarily give the Chinese a chance to wield influence.
“Chinese leaders give the impression that the United States is seeking more from China than China is seeking to get from China,” Yogesh Gupta, a former Indian diplomat who specializes in Indo-China relations, told the South China Morning Post, referring to the Sherman meeting. It's from Washington.
defensive position
"This time, the Americans were on the defensive, as they continued to seek Beijing's cooperation on a range of issues, including climate change, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and others, emphasizing that the United States is not seeking to enter into a conflict," he added.
For decades, American presidents have not used the tools at their disposal in dealings with Beijing.
On the contrary, most of them have essentially given China's leaders a veto over US policy, by saying that Chinese cooperation is very essential.
In fact, Zhang said, the Chinese are not that important, and US leaders should not listen to them.
If you look at their economy, in the last year China has become more dependent on exports, and is still exceptionally dependent on access to the US market.
In 2020, China's trade surplus with the United States was a staggering 58 percent of its total trade surplus.
Moreover, China's financial markets have become more dependent on foreign capital, due to President Xi Jinping's fierce attack on his country's technology sector.
attacks
Xi began the latest phase of his months-long assault with an unprecedented, last-minute halt to Antgroup's initial public offering last November, which was to be the world's largest, valued at $39.5 billion.
This year, Xi removed more than $140 billion from the value of Chinese tech giants listed on US exchanges in the last week of July alone, and most analysts believe this carnage will continue.
As a result, China lacks money and needs foreign exchange to make up for what has already been lost and what will be lost, while Xi continues to undermine his country's tech giants.
Biden could use his considerable powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, or, if more daring, the Trade with the Enemy Act of 1917, to stop trade with China and prevent investment in Chinese markets, permanently ending the threat posed by China.
Biden's attempts to establish a working relationship with China have failed, as evidenced by the Sherman meeting in China, and that the best way to follow China's regime is not to deal with it.
According to Zhang, there is no point in strengthening China with US resources, in particular, when Beijing has not shown interest in dialogue or a constructive relationship with Washington, and Xi Jinping is no longer willing to accept America, or to compromise with the Americans.
Zhang concluded his report by saying that Wendy Sherman had just realized that China's diplomats had ambushed her, and there must be a response to this, and it was time for us to tell Beijing "enough."
The Chinese are not very important, and American leaders should not listen to them. If you look at their economy, in the last year China has become more dependent on exports, and is still exceptionally dependent on access to the US market.
China lacks money and needs foreign exchange to make up for what has already been lost and what will be lost, while Xi continues to undermine his country's tech giants.
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