It’s a national embarrassment when U.S. officials travel long distances to foreign countries only to be made to look like idiots by the leaders of those countries. From Pepe Escobar at strategic-culture.su:
From Trump to Crash Test Dummy, Hegemon’s “policies” have managed quite a feat.
It must have taken eons of Taoist patience for President Xi Jinping to tell a few self-evident facts of life to a mediocre imperial functionary such as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Xi’s key takeways:
- “China is ready to be a partner and friend of the U.S.” Even as the reverse is highly doubtful – as China is considered by Washington as an existential “threat”.
- China focuses on the well-being of all mankind: that’s the core of Beijing’s concept of a global “community with shared future.
- China and the U.S. should be both responsible for history; for the people; and for the world. That’s the “three responsibilities” concept.
The last thing a unipolar Hegemon is responsible for is the world at large: unipolarity by definition profits only the Empire’s own plutocracy.
Little Sullivan also pushed for direct, over the phone military-to-military communications at a working level. Of course, because the Hegemon has less than zero paid moles infiltrated in key nodes of the Chinese system – so at least they will be able to hear little tidbits on and off from the Chinese military.
Yet the key takeway on the military dossier came during Little Sullivan’s session with General Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission.
Gen Zhang bluntly told Sullivan, in no uncertain terms, to stay away from Taiwan. Sullivan looked like a headless chicken after the meeting.
As headless as after his meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi:
“The United States and China have not made progress in negotiations to find a solution to the Ukrainian crisis.”
Of course not. Beijing sees through the whole imperial “ceasefire” machinations – in parallel with the U.S. trespassing all Russian red lines. Moscow has not responded in a devastating manner – yet – because Putin bears as many Taoist traits as Xi.
China is back: get over it
The Beijing leadership’s meetings with the envoy of an ultra-lame duck U.S. administration may have been only a pro forma exercise. After all what really matters is business.
China’s export to the U.S. represent less than 2% of China’s GDP. That’s negligible. China is the top global trading/commerce powerhouse – and real, strong business ahead is not with the West, but with the Global Majority. China has been playing this Long Game to perfection.
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