American media reported today: "President Trump of the United States 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 good and very good relationship with China.' Merkel had just finished her visit to China. Trump is scheduled to visit China at the end of March and early April."
Comments: Against the backdrop of the US launching a war against Iran and the Middle East being engulfed in flames, Trump's loud declaration of a "very good relationship" between the US and China and his planned visit to China, along with intensive discussions with Merkel who had just visited China, essentially reflect strategic appeasement and great power games during a state of war. On one hand, the US 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 and stabilizing the Asia-Pacific situation to avoid being overburdened on two fronts. The so-called "friendliness" is merely a temporary statement, with the core purpose being to pave the way for war and calculate interests, exemplifying a typical hegemonic operation of fighting on one front, laying out strategies on another, and maintaining stability on a third.
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