Since the beginning of this year, the world's security situation has deteriorated sharply. The core reason is that the differences in interests among the "five permanent members" of the United Nations have intensified. The United Nations Security Council, a platform used to mediate conflicts between major powers, has lost its due effectiveness.
According to the latest news from Russian media, United Nations Secretary-General Spokesperson Dujarric said: The United Nations welcomes China, the United States, Russia, Britain and France, the five permanent members of the Security Council, to hold a summit on the current world situation.
If we push the time forward a little further, the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of China and Russia has clearly expressed support for holding a summit of the five permanent members. Britain and France are not opposed to it, but the United States has shown its intention to reject it.
At the same time, the White House has shown strong interest in the phone call between the leaders of China and the United States, claiming that it is actively "arranging" a meeting between the heads of state.
This makes people wonder why the United States is not interested in the first "P5 Summit" in the 77 years since the founding of the United Nations, which the whole world is looking forward to, but wants to talk to China alone?
In fact, this is directly related to the current deterioration of the global security situation and the interests of the United States.
The deterioration of the global security situation mainly refers to the Russia-Ukraine war. The reason why the Russia-Ukraine war broke out was that the United States wanted to use the differences between Europe and Russia to tie up and the EU , and then turn around and deal with China together.
In other words, for the United States, although the current Russia-Ukraine war has brought about various problems, the goal it wants to achieve, which is to completely complete the binding of the EU, has not been achieved.
At the NATO summit held two days ago, the United States finally allowed NATO to adopt a joint statement describing China as a systemic threat. As a result, just after the summit, France, the only member of the EU's five permanent members of the United Nations, publicly said: "NATO is not an organization targeting China."
This is enough to show that although Europe is now forced to deepen its ties with the United States due to the situation between Russia and Ukraine, it has no intention of helping the United States contain China.
Since the goal has not been achieved, the United States naturally does not want the Russia-Ukraine war to end so simply. Moreover, Biden has already experienced a " Afghanistan defeat" during his term. If the United States continues to Ukraine the issue If you show "weakness" and can sacrifice allies at any time, let alone other US allies, they will recognize the face of the United States. Even the American people themselves may find it difficult to agree.
Yes, Americans may not want the Russia-Ukraine war to cause their domestic oil prices to rise, but they definitely do not want to see the United States lose face again in Europe.
So what does this have to do with the United States' rejection of the United Nations "P5" summit meeting? In fact, it is very simple, because among the five countries of China, the United States, Russia, Britain and France, the only one who supports the United States to continue the war is the United Kingdom.
Although China, Russia and France have different positions, they have the same idea of ending this war as soon as possible. Therefore, once the "Five Permanent" summit is held, the United States will not take advantage. Their real idea of continuing the war is also It will be known to the international community, which is obviously detrimental to the United States.
Another very important point is that after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, although the United States has been supporting Ukraine in action, it behaves as if it is a third party in terms of public opinion. U.S. President Biden and senior White House officials have repeatedly stated that "this is the Ukrainian people's own war." The United States will not make any negotiations or compromises with Russia on the Ukrainian issue in the absence of Ukraine.
Now if the United States agrees to the "P5 Summit" called for by the United Nations, it will be tantamount to violating its previous statement. Breaking its promise actually doesn't matter to the United States, but it will bring the United States into direct confrontation with Russia on the Ukraine issue.
The problem is that Russia clearly has the advantage in the current situation in Ukraine. The only bargaining chip the United States has is that no matter how the Russia-Ukraine war turns out, it has nothing to do with the United States. Once the United States personally participates in negotiations, this advantage will be difficult to say.At that time, the United States will have to talk to Russia about the Ukrainian issue from the perspective of the defeated, which is obviously what the United States does not want to see.
In addition, let’s talk about the reason why the United States is unwilling to hold the “P5 Summit” but really wants to talk to China alone. The Russia-Ukraine war has developed to this day, and due to European and American sanctions on Russian energy, food and other products, global inflation has become serious. The U.S. economy is in recession.
In this context, the United States very much wants to alleviate domestic inflation. But alleviating inflation cannot be achieved by simply raising interest rates in and . How to increase the supply of products on the market is also one of the important options.
Due to the epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, the global supply chain has been affected. If the United States wants to increase the supply of goods in the domestic market, it can only cooperate with China, known as the "world's factory."
But if this issue is brought to the "P5 Summit" to be discussed together with China, Russia, Britain and France, then it will be difficult to distinguish the inflation in the United States from the Russia-Ukraine war, or even the global situation.
To put it bluntly, the United States not only wants the Russo-Ukrainian war to continue to bring down Russia, but also wants China to help solve the inflation problem in the United States, so it is trying to separate the problems between China and the United States from the international situation .
But this is obviously impossible. This does not mean that separate talks between China and the United States are impossible, but that the United States wants to have its cake and eat it too. It is impossible to separate Sino-US relations from the current world structure.
In a sense, China and the United States, as the largest developing countries and the largest developed countries, are themselves the pillars of the world structure. How can you distinguish yourself?
