The atmosphere between the United States and China has not improved

Although the mutual relationship between the United States and China may have been somewhat inspected after the dictator’s remark made by US President Joe Biden, former China-US correspondent Oscar Garchagin does not believe that the windows have been shattered once and for all.

He adds that both superpowers are “accustomed to each other”. However, it can be concluded that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to China yielded little. ‘The way he greeted Xi Blinken didn’t show much friendship,’ says Garschagen. “In previous weeks, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have been received much more warmly.”

For example, Blinken was to sit to Xi’s right, while the Chinese president sat at the head of the table. According to Garschagen, there was a formal frame, “separated by a row of lotus flowers”. “But that’s it,” he says. The visit was also very short. Especially if you don’t count the subtitles, you’re down to fifteen minutes.

Reopen the dialogue

Earlier, Xi and Biden met at the G20 summit in Bali, where they agreed that the deterioration of relations could not continue. “They thought it was too serious and wanted to talk again,” Garchagin continues. Their margins on both sides are limited, of course, and this was a follow-up to that.”

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Although the visit was postponed due to the crisis surrounding the Chinese spy balloon, in anticipation of the outcome, one can only conclude that very little came of it, according to Garchagin. “Blinken’s efforts to reinstate the military hotline – which was suspended after a visit by then-Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi – failed,” he says. This is because Chinese Defense Minister Li Changfu is on the sanctions list.”

political game

Washington refuses to remove Lee, a former general and confidant of Xi Jinping, from the sanctions list. Hence the matter of prestige and loss of face, Garchagin believes. All these kinds of aspects of the atmosphere naturally play a role in this.