Photo: Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via APAfter the high-level meeting of the American and Chinese delegations in Rome, the message from Beijing is that Washington has no right to condition or threaten China with anything, nor to demand a commitment not to supply arms to Russia, or to cut economic ties with it. cooperation. China does not want to improve its relations with the US at the expense of relations with Russia
The long-awaited US-China high-level dialogue in Rome between CCP Politburo member Yang Jieqi and US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was hailed in Beijing as a "positive signal in a troubled world".
The differences that exist between the two most powerful economic powers in the world have not stopped communication between them because they share many common concerns. The meeting in Rome confirms that Sino-American communication is stable and that is a positive signal.
This general evaluation, which arrived from Beijing unexpectedly quickly, just a few hours after the meeting, indicates that, it seems, the greatest success of the meeting was that it was held at all and that both sides agree that the dialogue should continue.
The details of the talks have not yet been announced, but on the eve of the meeting there were hints from Washington and Beijing about its content. According to Chinese analysts, the Americans intended to use the meeting in Rome to put new pressure on China to join the sanctions against Russia. Sullivan bluntly threatened that China can also expect sanctions if it economically and militarily supports Russia in the war with Ukraine.
The tension ahead of the meeting was raised by American claims that Russia allegedly requested military and economic aid from China, which was immediately denied in Beijing and assessed as pressure and fake news.
It was an attempt to draw China into the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but that will not happen. Firstly, because China is primarily focused on its own problems, and secondly, because China does not play to the music of Washington.
The commentator of "Global Times", a media that operates within the main party newspaper "Zhemin Zhibao", specified that Russia is a military power of the first order and that there is no need to ask for weapons from China. The paper further writes that Washington has no right to condition or threaten China with anything, nor to demand that China undertake not to supply arms to Russia, or to terminate economic cooperation with it. China's attitude towards sanctions is well known, with the fact that China will certainly not act in a way that threatens its own interests. The bottom line is that China does not want to improve its relations with the US at the expense of relations with Russia.
Perhaps Washington expects China to be a mediator for relations with Russia, but in that case it should not try to open a conflict of interests between Beijing and Moscow, even if it had the opportunity to do so, according to analysts in Beijing.
As for economic sanctions against Russia, China reiterates that they cannot solve the problem. Beijing takes a pragmatic approach to cooperation with Russia, in accordance with its interests and on the basis of mutual benefit. China's priority has always been to ensure the development of its own economy.
In other words, it is not the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that is in the center of Beijing's attention, but its own domestic and foreign policy needs and challenges. Domestically, China is focused on the current spread of the covid epidemic and the fight against the pandemic is currently the priority of the Chinese leadership.
America should take a more rational position on bilateral relations and the balance of power in the world order, as well as reconsider its relationship with China and Russia because pressure, sanctions and provocations will not solve any problem, reads the message from Beijing.
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