US President Joe Biden. AP Newsis
“Trump boiled the frog in boiling water. On the other hand, Biden tries to pour in lukewarm water.”
China’s state-run Global Times
China is getting impatient when the U.S. Biden government’s “strategic patience” is declared as the basis of its popular policy. This is because the shackles of US-China relations, which was the worst in the Trump administration, will be maintained for a long time, rather than improving the situation. As a result, China confronted the United States again, preparing for a’long-term war’ with its economic stamina. However, on the 1st of next month, China’s diplomatic command tower announced that it would send a message to the United States.
“America does not change”… China, stand up with patience
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Shinhwa Newsis
The Biden government has always been shouting’new strategy’. However, China’s judgment is that the’strategic thinking’ to support this is not much different from the Trump administration. Like its predecessor government, which has fostered confrontation in an impulsive and violent way, the United States remains a dangerous entity to China.
In particular, the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) is a total difficulty in the domestic situation, so there is no time to properly hit the rudder aimed at China. Therefore, China suspects that the “strategic patience” advocated by the United States may be just a tactic to gain time to attack in detail while maintaining the existing strong public stance. Luxiang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said on the 27th, “The Biden government will rule out radical methods, but still consider China as a strategic competitor, and the conflict may intensify as it is hostile.”
As a result, China also put forth’patience’ as in the United States. It is similar to the time when the trade war with the United States was in full swing in 2019, when President Xi Jinping ordered long-term wars and Jinji wars and encouraged “Time is on our side.” “The United States is the most confident period since World War II,” said Zhang Weiwei, director of Fudan University’s China Research Institute. “China needs to remain strategically calm and patient.”
“A closed consulate, the US should release first” The work of the Chinese ambassador to the US
In July of last year, U.S. law enforcement officials are pulling to open the back door of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, Texas, which was closed. Houston = AFP Yonhap News
However, it is unpleasant for China to confront the United States on the defensive. This is because the painful memories of being dragged around without being properly developed during Trump’s reign are clear. That is why China’s Ambassador Cui Tiankai (崔天凱) urged the United States to say, “Patience alone is not enough, and reason and sincerity are required” in a state-run CCTV interview. In addition, Ambassador Chui mentioned the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, which was closed due to a one-sided measure by the United States in July of last year, and emphasized that “the US side must first show goodwill in the attitude of termination of resolution.”
At the same time, China presented various economic indicators, highlighting its superiority over the United States. Last year, foreign direct investment (FDI) increased 4%, overtaking the United States for the first time in history, and the Chinese economy grew 2.3%, while the United States showed a figure that the growth rate would decrease by 3.6%. It is a pressure that the United States will become increasingly disadvantageous unless the US changes its attitude. “Perseverance does not mean that Biden becomes a Buddha,” said Hu Wei-won, head of the Central American European Research Center of China International Trade Association. “With the Trump administration’s suppression for four years, China has developed and the United States has declined.” .
Chinese diplomatic chief Yang Je-tz makes his first speech to an American audience on the 1st of next month
Chinese diplomatic command tower Yang Jietsu, a political officer in charge of diplomacy at the Communist Party, visited Korea in August last year. yunhap news
China is busy trying to send a gesture of appeasement on the one hand, while checking and refuting the United States. Yang Je-tsu, a political member in charge of diplomacy at the Communist Party, who once had been discussed the possibility of a visit to the United States, will give a video speech at the invitation of the US-China Relations National Committee (NCUSCR), an American non-profit organization on the 1st of next month (local time). NCUSCR said, “I will give a lecture on the present and future of US-China relations,” and introduced, “It is the first time that China has revealed its position to a US audience after the establishment of the Biden government.” Earlier on the 25th, Xi emphasized’multilateralism’ at the Davos Forum and aimed at the United States, but it was a detour and did not directly mention the United States.
Chinese experts expect trade negotiations with the United States to be a turning point for improved relations. Zeng Pei-Yen, chairman of the China International Economic Exchange Center, who served as Vice Prime Minister of the State Council, stressed that “the two countries should objectively and comprehensively evaluate the first-stage trade agreement and hold a new talks as soon as possible.” High-level exchanges between the two countries have been suspended since the first phase of trade negotiations were agreed on in January last year.
Beijing= Kwangsoo Kim Correspondent [email protected]
