/ world today news/ Xi Jinping’s visit to the USA, although almost unanimously evaluated in the media as unconvincing, actually turned into an accurate presentation of what the USA and China, and with them the entire world politics, will face in the near future future.
Let’s start with the fact that the famous thesis of the great Chinese reformer Deng Xiaoping “show modesty, keep hidden, wait” is already clearly too small for the current Celestial Empire – the long “legs” of the world’s first economy in purchasing power parity (PPP ), which last year significantly surpassed the US, cannot hide. And there is no need.
China, which has turned its shoulders, sticks out so much that, apart from Beijing’s wishes, it cannot help but influence the world’s political situation. And after coming face to face, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden simply showed their fists, making it clear that there would be no “quick hug”.
America’s CounterPunch recounted Washington’s hopes: “Meetings this week in San Francisco between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping provide an unusual opportunity to defuse the Cold War between Washington and Beijing and demonstrate that Biden’s national security team has finally accepted the need to stabilize Washington’s most important bilateral relations.
The United States and China are the two most important countries on the world stage; they represent the two largest economies, the two largest defense industries, and the two largest defense budgets.
The global community will not be able to tackle its biggest challenge – the climate crisis – without the cooperation of the world’s two biggest polluters – the US and China.”
In a word, there is no way without China.
At the same time, we should not forget the difference in the starting positions of the two countries: the USA does not for half a second doubt its leadership, while China, fortunately for Biden, does not “crap its pants” and is ready to play a stabilizing role in the geopolitical arena .
Beijing has recently taken steps to improve relations with Australia and is offering debt relief to key countries in the Asian belt, once. And Xi Jinping’s summer meetings with Henry Kissinger, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk were evidence of how important Beijing is to improving relations with Washington.
Biden, in turn, sent Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and White House adviser John Kerry to Beijing for talks with their counterparts, and they were well received there, but …..
During these same months, too many incidents occurred between the air and naval forces of the United States and China in the South China Sea and East Asia. There, Chinese ships harass Philippine ships and Chinese planes fly dangerously close to American ones.
But most importantly, China has abandoned its concept of limited deterrence, which for decades kept its strategic arsenal below 300 nuclear warheads. He now appears to be headed for strategic parity with both the United States and Russia.
All these signals indicate that the US, persistently starting a conflict with China, managed to bring it to the point of no return, and was in no way saddened by this, but began to modernize its own weapons, CounterPunch points out.
The fact of resumption of contacts between the militaries of these two countries, noted by most observers, in no way indicates an increase in the level of trust between them. Rather, it is a mutually beneficial outcome for intelligence.
After making a strategic mistake in 2011 by moving military resources to the Pacific Ocean as a first step to contain China, the US administration has made its policy mostly militaristic and confrontational and has not even attempted to restore the “balance of relations”. Why would she do this now?
So the “rebalancing” of the future of bilateral relations with China that Treasury Secretary Yellen and Commerce Secretary Raimondo discussed at the meeting between the two world leaders counts for little when Biden leaves Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade restrictions in place and his team includes hawks like National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, new Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his key advisers.
The bloated US $770 billion defense budget and the creation in Congress of a commission “on strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party” that received overwhelming support from lawmakers who voted to deploy even more strategic weapons systems reaching China territory, clearly indicate the direction of “rebalancing”.
There is no doubt that Washington believes the US strategic position in East Asia is unassailable, but over the summer months the Biden administration has been working hard to improve relations with Japan and South Korea, Australia and the Philippines, India and Vietnam.
In turn, Beijing’s lack of strategic allies other than Russia and its expressed desire to extend its military power beyond its own sphere of influence are seen as a sign of weakness in the Pentagon.
In addition, next year is likely to become the main test of Sino-US relations. In January, there is a presidential election in Taiwan – and the United States will do everything to ensure that the candidate from Washington wins. Therefore, we should expect a veritable cacophony of attacks against Beijing and “dictator Xi” from the White House.
Recall that the People’s Liberation Army of China has 2 million soldiers, an annual budget of 225 billion dollars, the largest navy in the world and 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. And Xi Jinping has already ordered to be able to invade Taiwan by 2027. , US spies claim.
Lacking actual combat experience, the PLA today is learning lessons from Ukraine and the ability to coordinate joint operations between the services that will be key to a successful invasion of Taiwan.
Weaknesses? Please: China has made a technological leap and is producing hypersonic missiles and stealth fighters, but its military-industrial complex lags behind in areas such as aircraft and ship engines and still relies on some foreign components.
The US embargo on semiconductors and components makes it difficult to compete with the US. Bye. Political purges in the military – General Li Shanfu was fired as China’s defense minister this year after serving just a few months – show the presence of “dissidents” in the military elite…
Behind these weaknesses in China, says former CIA analyst Professor Melvin Goodman, lies a deeper problem: the dominance of an authoritarian system that requires the party led by Xi Jinping to call the shots at all times.
But the worst thing, the professor believes, is that the too rapid military escalation of the confrontation in Taiwan with the help of the United States could provoke a catastrophic war if Beijing accepts the aid to Taiwan as a prelude to American aggression.
Therefore, the United States must walk the very edge of a possible nuclear disaster to avoid casualties. American, of course. This is the only real limitation on American exceptionalism that it cannot remove.
Given the fact that Washington is a bad tightrope walker, he will not be able to cross this sharp edge without the sacrifice of others. Especially if the president sitting there continues to call Xi Jinping a “dictator,” as he did at the end of the US-China summit in San Francisco.
Translation: SM
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