US and China distrust WHO report
Confrontation without intersection from the first normal currency of both countries
Unlike Trump, the evaluation of leaving’room for conversation’
In December 2013, Joe Biden (left), then Vice President of the United States and Chinese President Xi Jinping, met at the Beijing People’s Congress to shake hands. Beijing = Reuters material photo
As expected, the first summit call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which was barely three weeks after US President Joe Biden took office, ended in a tight fight. From the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) to human rights, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the two sides have consistently confronted without contact over’core interests’. The U.S. distrusted the World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation report and saw that it was responsible for the spread of Corona 19 in China, like the former Donald Trump administration. However, it appears that both countries did not completely close the possibility of improving relations by sending a signal for dialogue on issues that could be cooperated.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on the 13th (local time), “The United States is deeply concerned about the way the US exchanges opinions regarding the initial investigation of Corona 19.” This is a criticism following reports that China refused to provide raw raw data (raw data) related to early outbreak cases to the WHO investigation team trying to find the origin of Corona 19 the previous day. As the investigation was not transparent, it means that China is still responsible for the spread of Corona 19.
From the first call between the two countries, which took place on the 11th, the US offensive has been fierce. President Biden put on the table all the issues that the Chinese government is sensitive to, including the unfair trade, the suppression of Hong Kong, human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur region, and the Taiwan issue. President Xi also replied, “Do not interfere with internal affairs.” The deep sediment of both sides was also evident during the unusual first conversation, which took two hours.
Taiwanese representative Xiao Mei-chin (left) and US Secretary of State Sung Kim, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs of the US State Department, met in Washington on the 10th US State Department East Asia Thailand Twitter Capture
The United States is step by step implementing public pressure measures. A day before the summit call (10th), the Ministry of National Defense established a task force (TF) to establish a public defense strategy, and on the morning of the day, Assistant Secretary of State Seong Kim, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, met with Taiwanese representative Xiao Mei-chin, who seemed to be happy with Taiwan. Showed off its closeness. With only a few hours left for the first conversation, the principle of’One China’ was openly opposed. China’s willingness to respond is also clear. When the UK canceled the license for CGTN broadcasting, saying, “It operates under the control of the Communist Party,” the Chinese government retaliated on the 12th for a ban on domestic broadcasting by BBC World News, and Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK also stopped broadcasting the BBC. It means that the biden administration, which declared’restore alliance’, will not allow the diplomatic initiative of the government.
However, foreign media are paying more attention to the fact that the two countries “leave room for a quiet dialogue”. In fact, the two leaders emphasized cooperation in areas that can take advantage of climate change and trade. The BBC said, “A normal call is a’friendly gesture’.” Signs that have opened the’back door’ of cooperation are also spotted everywhere. President Biden’s indefinite suspension of the executive order to sell China’s video-sharing application (app) TikTok, the first of the US presidents to greet the Chinese new year, the Chinese New Year, and President Biden In the first week of his inauguration, it imported 5.84 million tons of US corn and expressed’surname’. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) diagnosed in an editorial on the day that “the US-China dispute seems inevitable, but the two leaders’ currencies laid the foundation for dialogue”.
Heo Gyeongju reporter [email protected]
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