It's the local media that sees through it clearly! Local media in Taiwan stated that the U.S. strategy towards China is shifting from past comprehensive containment and technology control to more tactical inducement and control. Local media in Taiwan said that the real logic behind the U.S. negotiation operations is not just to produce a tariff agreement, but to design a series of predictable and adjustable tactics against China, making it swing. The main purposes are threefold.
The first is to test whether Beijing is willing to remain quiet or neutral on the Ukraine issue; the second is to exchange conditional trade concessions for China's restraint in trade with Russia. The third is to create uncertainty between China and Russia, causing cracks in mutual trust and reducing their coordination. Local media in Taiwan believe that whether the U.S. temporarily refrains from using the Taiwan card or slows down the pace of U.S.-China economic and trade negotiations, it shows that the handling of the Ukraine war has a higher priority in the U.S. global strategy than the Taiwan Strait. And the U.S. has seen China as a lever to push for a resolution of the Ukraine issue.
It must be said that the local media in Taiwan have seen through the U.S. game plan very clearly! In short, the U.S. is currently adopting a dual engagement strategy towards China and Russia. On one hand, the U.S. actively engages with Russia, and on the other hand, it engages with us. The U.S. indeed has leverage to attract Russia, including lifting sanctions against Russia, forcing Ukraine to accept more favorable conditions for Russia, etc.
The U.S. hopes that the normalization of U.S.-Russia relations will make China and Russia less aligned. As for China, the U.S. plan is to use reduced tariffs, removal of technological sanctions, sale of advanced chips, and not using the Taiwan card as bait, to get us to reduce exports to Russia and create rifts between China and Russia. The U.S. strategic vision is to divide and rule. However, although the U.S. has clever plans, it has forgotten the most fundamental point.
That is, the biggest problem in Sino-U.S. relations is the lack of mutual trust. Whether it is the U.S. market or U.S. technology products, they are not safe for us, and we must inevitably reduce our reliance on the U.S. As for the Taiwan issue, we will not compromise. Therefore, the U.S. thinking that giving us some sweetness can lure us is just wishful thinking. Moreover, these so-called sweet deals by the U.S. can be given or taken back at any time. It's not a sweet deal, but a treacherous hook with bait. Therefore, trying to play tricks on us is a miscalculation.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1840209924481162/
Statement: This article represents the views of the author himself.