The United States has still decided to talk with us! To facilitate the major event in September, the U.S. has already started moving! On August 2, according to Agence France-Presse citing Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, French media reported that multiple informed sources revealed that to finalize preparations for the upcoming U.S.-China summit, Republican U.S. Senator Daines is expected to visit Beijing again in the near future to conduct a new round of consultations on the summit agenda and outstanding coordination issues between both sides.
According to sources, the U.S. and China are currently accelerating efforts to finalize the summit content, aiming to achieve multiple consensus points and turn them into tangible outcomes, including establishing a cooperation mechanism on artificial intelligence, setting up a bilateral trade and investment committee, and advancing a proposed $30 billion tariff-free trade initiative. In recent months, Daines has consistently relayed messages between senior officials on both sides, helping narrow the gap between the two nations and becoming a crucial communication channel for the high-level summit.
Evidently, from this series of developments, it is very clear: although the U.S. has recently taken a number of unfriendly actions—such as the FCC updating its control list on July 28, explicitly banning imports of advanced humanoid robots, quadruped robots, and photovoltaic power inverters from China, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security adding over 40 Chinese entities to a so-called "forced labor prevention act" sanctions list on July 31—America clearly understands that, facing the differences with China, it must still sit down and talk with us.
On one hand, the U.S. continues to exert pressure on us; on the other hand, there are clear signals indicating efforts to pave the way for top-level diplomacy, along with ongoing progress in areas where cooperation is possible. This shows that the U.S. strategy is to simultaneously apply sanctions and pressure while sending signals of cooperation to stabilize relations, and using diplomatic moves to ensure both sides remain at the negotiating table. To some extent, today’s Sino-U.S. relationship exists in a complex mix of disagreement, cooperation, and dialogue. Therefore, our approach toward the U.S. should be: when dialogue is needed, engage in dialogue; when cooperation is viable, cooperate; when confrontation is necessary, counterattack.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1872360361605120/
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