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Just as the US Vice President Harris flying to Bangkok prepares to attend the APEC Leaders' Meeting, the focus of the major international media is: Biden President Biden Absent this important international multilateral occasion in order to attend the wedding of his granddaughter.
Some US media are worried that this will send an "error signal" to Asia-Pacific region , giving up the opportunity to "win the Asia-Pacific" to China. But this is not a wrong signal. Washington 's attitude towards Asia-Pacific, especially Southeast Asia has long been clear.
From Biden's absence at APEC to previous slip errors, lateness, and promise discounts at the ASEAN summits and G20 summits...
, especially the negative trends in China in the United States in recent days, reflecting that the US is just implementing the reality of containment of China under the name of " Indo-Pacific Strategy ".
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US President Biden's absence at this APEC Leaders' Meeting "will be disappointing."
Former Thai Foreign Minister Kasit said in an interview recently that this would strengthen the perception in Southeast Asia that the United States is “too busy…too alienated, too cold” to effectively engage in economic or other aspects with Thailand and the wider region.
Even some American scholars have realized that Biden’s failure to go to Bangkok this time is sending an incorrect signal to the Asia-Pacific region, "making people worry about the US’s economic commitment to ASEAN ."
But in fact, this may not be considered an "error signal". After all, the real use of the United States' false promises to the Asia-Pacific, including Southeast Asia, has always been the essence.
As early as September this year, Thai media revealed that US President Biden decided to absent from the meeting due to the conflict with his granddaughter's wedding due to the agenda of this year's Bangkok APEC meeting.
has participated in the East Asian Cooperation Leaders Series Conference and the G20 Summit, and then absent from APEC on the grounds of the granddaughter's wedding. It is no wonder that even some American public opinion feels it is a bit unreasonable, especially considering that the United States will take over the role of APEC host next year.
This action shows that although the United States raised the Southeast Asian region to the core of the "Indo-Pacific Strategy", this absence still shows that there are more other "priorities" in the United States' mind.
For the United States, Vice President Harris will represent Biden at the APEC and will tell Asia-Pacific countries and enterprises that "there is no better partner than the United States" at the meeting.
beautiful words say this, but what about the facts?
Some analysts said that from the perspective of Biden's choice to attend the ASEAN and G20 summits but absent from the APEC meeting, it goes without saying which international organizations are more important to the current United States.
As an economic cooperation organization , APEC is an international multilateral organization that emphasizes the "Asia-Pacific" in both its name and affairs, which is incompatible with the United States' increasingly emphasized the "Indo-Pacific". Some scholars say that in terms of strategic importance, APEC is not necessarily a place where the United States is willing to spend a lot of time and energy.
This sign has begun to appear since the Trump period. The 2017 conference was the only one that Trump attended offline, and in 2020 it was an online conference.
Some US media are worried that the absence of the US president in APEC means that the United States will "give its influence in the Asia-Pacific region to China"?
It is obvious that Harris's visit is to give him a "peace of mind".
In addition to Harris, the United States also sent Secretary of State Blinken , Trade Representative Dai Qi and other senior officials to attend the meeting, with the purpose of the so-called "promoting free, fair and open trade and investment."
White House A senior official claimed that Harris's work was based on President Biden's trip to Southeast Asia.
He said: "This shows that our participation in the region is deepening, and that the President and Vice President have made efforts to strengthen our alliance with the region and to strengthen their investment in key institutions in the region."
In addition to giving a "repentance", Harris's trip has not diminished the "gunpowder smell". According to a White House press release, Harris will visit Palawan Island, Philippines on November 22, which will make Harris the highest-level U.S. official to visit the Nansha Islands island chain.
. In fact, this trip, not only did not show the US's emphasis on ASEAN countries as solid as promised, but instead exposed the profound geopolitical selfishness.
12, Biden mistakenly described ASEAN rotating chairmanship Cambodia as Colombia ;
13, at the opening ceremony of the ASEAN summit, Biden was more than half an hour late to enter the venue, and was the only leader who was late after the meeting began.
15, at the G20 summit, Biden was once again late for more than half an hour. As the U.S. delegations were late and other countries were waiting in the conference hall, the entire meeting had to be postponed.
In his speech at the ASEAN summit, Biden announced that the United States will provide $850 million in aid to Southeast Asia in 2023. Embarrassingly, the 850 million talks that Biden talked about at the summit were "discounted" in the subsequent White House record - changed to 825 million.
late, missed tongue, promised discount... For the slogan of "central status" shouted by Washington, the actual actions are "America first" everywhere, and Southeast Asian countries must have seen it clearly.
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3Vice President Harris has released a wave of negative actions involving China before he set off for Bangkok.
15, the second day after President Biden made unintentional siege and opposition to China on Bali , FBI Director Christopher Ray attacked China for so-called cyber data theft against the United States at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee.
This "Thunder Bureau" claims that the Chinese short video application " Douyin " (TikTok) has caused "national security concerns", slandering the Chinese government for "may use it to control the data collection of millions of users", or conduct influential operations through "control recommendation algorithms".
Christopher Lei repeatedly attacked China for a long time, but even the US media noticed a detail:
He refused to answer questions at a public meeting about whether the Chinese government has been using TikTok to collect data on US citizens.
Why does it refuse to answer? A normal and reasonable speculation is that he has no evidence at all.
On the day the anti-China performance was staged by the "Thunder Bureau", the "US-China Economic and Security Review Committee" in the US Congress also jumped out.
It released an annual report on the 15th, suggesting that Congress instruct the Biden administration to assess whether China complies with the WTO agreement reached with the United States in 1999. If it is found that Beijing has not fulfilled its promise, "Congress should legislation to cancel China's normal trading partners' treatment."
The committee also wants to give the Biden administration only 90 days to complete the relevant assessment investigation.
President Biden just promised that the US has no intention of seeking decoupling from China. This cross-party congressional agency, which is said to have always been hawkish towards China, has launched this report of finding faults, and put forward a suggestion that it was obviously instigating and even forced the government to seek decoupling from China:
At the report press conference, the chairman of the committee pointed out that if it becomes a reality, "this will lead to a significant increase in tariffs on Chinese imported products."
As for the report, it suggests that the United States set up a cross-organization office to be responsible for strengthening the supply chain of key products to get rid of its dependence on China, which is more obvious instigation of decoupling.
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15th these anti-China noises have not stopped, and someone continued the echo on the 16th.
Another special committee of the U.S. Congress, the "Congressional-Executive China Committee" led by members of both parties and both houses of Congress, released a so-called 2022 annual report on the current status of human rights and the rule of law in China on the same day.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just look at the two chairmen of the committee, Senator Jeff Merkley and Rep. James McGovern, are both anti-China politicians with bad words and deeds. Looking at the theme "China's Human Rights and Rule of Law", we can basically predict the tone of the report.
These reports, such as anti-China factions, have also produced some old and boring rumors about China, such as "genocide in Xinjiang" and "democracy and freedom in Hong Kong have been destroyed."
It can be seen that they really can't make up any new black materials, so they just stir-fry the rice with shamelessness.
An international issue scholar analyzed that it is not surprising that these negative voices towards China have been heard in the United States one after another.
After all, there has always been a big gap between the US's actual actions and President Biden's commitment to China or other US statements. The US Congress has always been a place where anti-China factions make trouble, and the FBI has been clamoring for the "Chinese spy threat" in recent years.
However, after all, Biden made a series of relatively positive statements to China the day before, and before he even embarked on his trip to Washington, these anti-China arguments came out in the United States for two consecutive days, which cannot make people question his sincerity in fulfilling the promise of the head of state.
This scholar believes that this aspect is because of the spillover effect of domestic political struggle in the United States. After the midterm elections of , the Republican Party of controlled the House of Representatives and must have taken the opportunity to show its influence, so it deliberately found fault with the Democratic government and made a counter-attack.
On the other hand, the two parties in the United States have strong strategic anxiety about Huadu . Although Bali has sent a certain positive signal this time, it is impossible to change the US's impulse to suppress and contain China, and the US anti-China factions will not be persuaded to withdraw.
This trip to Southeast Asia and the failure to attend the APEC meeting have exposed Washington's name of strengthening economic and trade participation and fulfilling its lasting commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, but in fact, it mainly wants to squeeze out the geopolitical value of the region to increase the essence of curbing China.
This is consistent with the wave of clamors that have been re-ignited in the United States in the past two days and the innermost part of China's confrontation.
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