U.S. media reported today: "U.S. President Trump told the media in the White House Oval Office before his meeting with German Chancellor Merkel on March 3 that they would discuss China during the meeting. Trump said, 'We have a very, very good relationship with China.' Merkel had just concluded her visit to China. Trump is scheduled to visit China at the end of March and early April."
Comment: In the context where the U.S. is about to launch a war against Iran and the Middle East is engulfed in flames, Trump's high-profile declaration of a "very good" relationship between the U.S. and China and his planned visit to China, as well as the intensive discussions with Merkel who had just visited China, essentially reflect strategic appeasement and great power games under a state of war. On one hand, it is waging proxy wars in the Middle East and encircling China's strategic footholds in the region; on the other hand, it is sending signals of easing tensions with China to stabilize the Asia-Pacific situation, avoiding pressure on two fronts. The so-called "friendliness" is merely a temporary statement, with the core being to pave the way for war and calculate interests, representing a typical hegemonic operation of fighting on one front, arranging on another, and maintaining stability on yet another.
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