BEIJING: The US “decoupling” and containment strategy against China is in trouble – US media recently found that Washington is getting lonely in its clash with Beijing, as many of its key allies, including France, as well as the US’ domestic companies like Intel and Tesla, are reluctant to follow the White House’s wrong policy toward China.
The US might become a “lone wolf” in the “new cold war” it launched against China, experts said on Tuesday.
Noticing the US seeks to communicate with China, they stressed it is unlikely Washington will admit its strategy failure or effectively correct its wrong policy after the latest US provocation on the Taiwan question has caused new tension in the region.
The White House recently said the US is working on reengagement with China. US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said at the White House during a press briefing on Monday that the China-US tensions are certainly high right now. “We’d like to see this relationship get onto a better footing,” and the US is seeking another conversation between the presidents of the two countries, he said.
Responding to US request for communication, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily routine press conference on Tuesday that “The responsibility for the current difficulties in China-US relations does not lie with China.”
“The US needs to stop interfering in China’s internal affairs and harming China’s interests, and stop undermining the political foundation for our bilateral relations while stressing the need to put ‘guardrails’ on the relationship. The US needs to work with China to bring the bilateral relations back onto the right track of sound and steady growth,” Wang remarked.
The signals released by the White House show that the US wants at least to warm up economic ties with China as the US is caught in the middle of economic and financial difficulties while China has entered economic recovery, Tian Yun, a veteran economist based in Beijing, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
“The US wants to go back to the ‘cold politics but hot economy’ approach in handling its relations with China,” Tian said.
However, to resume economic ties with China, the Biden administration must show credible sincerity with concrete actions.
While asking for talks and visits to China, the US has not stopped its provocation on Taiwan question. The provocative meeting on April 5 between Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen and US house speaker Kevin McCarthy during Tsai’s “transit” in the US prompted the People’s Liberation Army to hold a series of drills to respond to the US provocation and deter secessionist forces on the island. Apart from geopolitical frictions across the Taiwan Straits and in the South China Sea, the US keeps pushing “decoupling” with China in many fields and has coerced its allies and domestic companies to follow suit.
–The Daily Mail-Global Time news exchange item
