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On March 14, local time, Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, met with the US President's National Security Advisor Sullivan , on Rome , and the process lasted for nearly 7 hours. The minutes of the US meeting after the meeting stated that this meeting was one of a series of follow-up meetings arranged after the last video meeting between the Chinese and US dollar heads. At the meeting, Sullivan raised a series of issues of US-China relations and discussed extensively the war between Russia and Ukraine. They also emphasized the importance of maintaining open channels of communication between the United States and China.
From this brief meeting minutes, we can see that the US side did not get what it wanted before the meeting. Even during these 7 hours, for a considerable period of time, we entered the rhythm of our very senior member Yang Jiechi, who gave Sullivan, who was very experienced but self-righteous and highly regarded. During the
period, Yang Jiechi said that China has always viewed and handled Sino-US relations in accordance with the three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation proposed by President Xi, and hoped that the US would implement the "four no and one unintentional" commitment made by President Biden and . Under the current circumstances, China and the United States have strengthened dialogue, properly managed differences, and avoided conflicts and confrontations, which is in line with the interests of the people of both countries. This is China's basic understanding of Sino-US relations. However, on the Taiwan issue, some of the US's remarks frequently violate the "one-China principle" recognized in the " Joint Communiqué ", and China expresses serious concern and firm opposition to this. The "one-China principle" is the prerequisite for establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States. If this premise is shaken, then the political foundation of Sino-US relations will be shaken.
China has once again clarified its position on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. China has always advocated respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. China is committed to persuading peace and promoting talks. At the same time, the international community should jointly support the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Of course, during the meeting, Sullivan tried to describe to China that the United States, its allies and partners were unprecedentedly united, and tried to put pressure on China through its will to change its position. However, he did not mention that India always abstained from the three UN votes and refused to stand with the United States, but mentioned that India participated in the security video conference of the leaders of the four countries.
At the emergency special meeting of the UN General Assembly, countries voted on the draft resolution on the situation in Ukraine. Image source: CCTV News
March 16 is the time node for Russian sovereign debt to pay interest. Now Western capital markets are paying attention to how Russia will pay this interest. For some financial investment institutions in European and American countries, before that, they systematically bought corporate bonds from Russian companies holding Russian sovereign debts, which are essentially high-quality assets. But in the context of financial sanctions, their prices are seriously undervalued, and they expect that Russia will undergo a major default, which will further lower their value and then form a huge exposure to speculative operations in finance.
But on the other hand, if Russia survives this crisis with the help of China as they imagined, it may directly lead to the market's belief that the US financial sanctions against Russia are approaching failure, which may have a huge impact on the overall strategic situation to a considerable extent. There are reports that Saudi Arabia has shown a positive attitude on the issue of a portion of the oil exported to China being settled in RMB instead of the US dollar, and may achieve some kind of breakthrough. In this regard, Sullivan directly expressed concerns about China's alliance with Russia.
After the meeting, White House held a press conference in the form of a telephone conference to answer substantive questions about the meeting. However, on the question of whether China has really provided help to Russia, the White House spokesperson was unable to provide answers to such questions, and even incoherently said: "We are communicating privately to express concerns, including concerns about the various sanctions that other countries may provide to Russia." That is to say, keep a low profile.
Why is it low-key now? Because high-profile pressure has no effect.It is obvious that within 7 hours, Sullivan was taught a lesson again in this regard. This is a very interesting detail. Member Yang Jiechi and Sullivan are one-on-one, just like a poor student facing a strict teacher. The teacher asked: "Have you finished your homework? Have you solved the key problems? What do you want to do? Do you still want to do it later?"
This also proves that during this conversation, China's statement on many issues showed a clear adherence to the bottom line, and its discussion on many issues formed an extremely sharp contrast with the US's confusing understanding and confused goals.
This is somewhat frustrating for China, because the United States is now increasingly showing a mismatch of diplomatic and strategic capabilities expected by its national status. Because of the stupidity and incompetence of the United States, a lot of unnecessary losses have been caused. This is a helpless thing for China, a responsible major country.
We expect a responsible way to communicate and communicate with countries like the United States that have the corresponding theoretical ability to communicate and communicate with me. As a result, every time it is like Sullivan, who basically strictly revolves around domestic political issues in the United States. It is like a naughty child who is stubbornly immersed in his own world and is unwilling to face this reality. He believes that as before, he can make the world run according to his understanding by relying on some simple ways of fighting and tantrums, but this is obviously undesirable.
Later talked about the so-called North Korea issue, but there was no substantive content or solution, nor did the US show that it wanted to find meaningful and operational solutions with China on these issues that were beneficial to all parties in the world.
To be honest, after reading the minutes of the meeting between China and the United States on this meeting, one thing that is very touching is that we are in an unprecedented major change, with profound adjustments and changes in the international system. Relying on the existing technical capability platform, it will be presented to us dynamically in such a concrete way. This is also a very valuable experience.
Yang Jiechi and Sullivan met in Rome. Image source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website
Overall, the current situation is very clear. Not to mention specific issues for China, the United States and Russia, from a macro-strategic perspective, the three countries are very clear about what they need.
For example, Russia is sure that it wants to be safe; from the perspective of China, we hope that the world can return to the track of benefiting mankind and achieving sustainable development; the United States firmly hopes to perform, believing that it can still use a highly dramatic way to look at understanding and understanding what is happening in this world with a frivolous attitude in understanding and understanding what is happening in this world with a frivolous attitude.
Of course, the positions chosen by these three countries and more countries ultimately need to be tested by history. It is obvious that this world gives the United States a chance. The United States has the opportunity to correct the international order as the only superpower and leader in the international system he most hopes for, assume the obligations he deserves as a leader, and demonstrate his leadership.
But what he showed was a destructive negative force, not the constructive development of this system.
We also see some subtle phenomena occurring within Ukraine. For example, President Zelensky missed a video speech on the network scheduled by the European Council , and replaced it with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Of course, we don’t know what kind of scene and picture the speech expected to be delivered in the US Congress on March 16 will be.
But everyone needs to remember that all this we see today, whether it is the analysis and judgment made by the articles you published, or the various behaviors in the investment market, will objectively become an important part of history and make your own contributions. In the end, as Engels said, various separations gathered into a joint force for history to move forward.
And because the changes in the current time and space conditions can be quickly tested in the face of reality, some will be valid, and some will not. But in any case, we are in a critical node of the depth of changes and adjustments in the international system's strength, and the grand historical screen is slowly unfolding in front of us. It is necessary to remember that in this contest, the more political willed side has a higher probability of winning in this historic and epic game - there is no doubt.
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