Closing the Chinese consulate does not change Trump’s lagging poll

U.S. and China relations have become more tense

As tensions between the world’s two largest economies intensified, Washington has further escalated this, closing the Chinese Consulate in Houston, in retaliation that China has ordered the closure of the US Consulate in Chengdu. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out that Washington made this decision because China is “stealing” intellectual property. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that US diplomats had learned on Friday morning that Beijing was revoking the license of the Chengdu consulate and that the consulate was ordered to “stop all business and activities.” The Chinese government believes that the United States has ordered the closure of the Houston office as a “unilateral provocation.” Beijing stated that this “seriously violated international law and basic norms of international relations.” The Chengdu consulate began operations in 1985, covering Chongqing, Guizhou, and Yunnan. And Sichuan.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said: “China does not want to see the current situation between China and the United States, and the responsibility rests solely with the United States.” “We once again urge the United States to immediately revoke this erroneous decision and create necessary conditions for the normalization of relations between the two countries.” China The official Xinhua News Agency stated that the announcement of the closure of Chengdu “is aimed at a small number of extremist forces in the US government, not the American people.” The comment stated: “The United States has stirred up troubles in bilateral relations and even hysteria.”

Last year, due to the ongoing trade war, the coronavirus pandemic, and the unrelated criticism of China’s human rights violations in Hong Kong and Xinjiang by the United States, relations between the United States and China fell sharply. When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at the Nixon Library in California on Thursday, he blasted his claim that decades of policy toward China had failed.

Mike Pompeo was in Europe and convened the governments of the European continent to demand a hard line against Beijing. A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Mike Pompeo’s speech on Friday, accusing Pompeo of “initiating a new crusade against China in a globalized world.”

In history, the worse situation is worse than it is now

In 1999, Beijing reacted with restraint after the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade killed three Chinese journalists and injured more than a dozen, eventually receiving an official apology and multimillion-dollar compensations for the victims from the US. As early as the last century In the 1950s, there were wars between China and the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet Union and the United States had a cold war. At that time, the relationship between the United States and China deteriorated, and history was much worse than the present.

This time, facing the provocation of the United States, China did not choose to back down. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the closure of Chengdu is a “legitimate and necessary response” to the United States’ request to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston. As China’s position on the world stage becomes more confident and the United States tries to contain its rise, the relationship between the world’s two largest economies has deteriorated to an alarming degree in recent years. President Donald Trump and his assistants stepped up their attacks on China before the November U.S. election, accusing Beijing of spying, cyber theft and causing the coronavirus pandemic.

In a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo accused Chinese leaders of trying to “hegemony China and abroad” in pursuit of global hegemony. Pompeo said: “Ensuring our freedom from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time.” Pompeo believes that this is not “choosing between China and the United States,” but “choosing between freedom or autocracy.”

US President Donald Trump hinted that he might order the closure of more Chinese consulates, and some officials and the FBI have linked these diplomatic bases with espionage and intellectual property theft under the authorization of the Trump administration .

The U.S. turned to the Cold War out of fear of “Chinese substitution”

“The Trump administration has labeled China a’revisionist force’, which is the code name of the’official enemy’; it indicates that China is an enemy. People believe that the reason why China has been widely and thoroughly condemned by Trump is because It did not stay in a subordinate position, but used it to develop its own country in a non-capitalist way, and it did not meet the requirements and expectations of the Trump administration.

In fact, China poses no threat, and any accusation does misunderstand the nature of the situation. People expected China to collapse or be overthrown, but that didn’t happen. China has no threat to neighboring countries. They created a society where people are free from hunger and fear, which is an extraordinary achievement in human history. This is why the United States wants to challenge, threaten and destroy China.

The Donald Trump administration has repeatedly clashed with Beijing over the trade and coronavirus pandemic and China’s implementation of controversial new security laws in Hong Kong. The Chinese government’s decision to close the US consulate came hours after Pompeo strengthened his position on China in his speech. Nixon’s historic visit to Asian countries in 1972 ushered in a new era of improving relations between Beijing and the world. Pompeo said: “Today, China is increasingly authoritarian within its borders and is hostile to freedom in other parts of the world. “The free world must overcome this new tyranny. “At the press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also mentioned Pompeo’s stern speech, and believed that “this has ideological bias and Cold War mentality.” ”

In addition, US officials blamed China for the global spread of the coronavirus. In particular, President Trump alleged that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory, despite the fact that his own intelligence personnel said the virus was “not created by humans or genetically modified.” Trump has repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus”. Since 2018, the two countries have also been in a tariff war. The tension between the two countries has been going on for several months. Trump has long accused China of unfair trade practices and theft of intellectual property rights.

 The anti-China strategy has not changed the election

Before March, when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in the United States, Trump praised President Xi Jinping and China for handling the health crisis. According to a book by his former national security adviser, John Bolton, Trump even tried to seek help from Xi Jinping during the campaign. Since then, Trump has taken a hard line against China, won political capital from his Republican Party, and silenced critics, thus seeing the benefits. However, Trump’s measures are often meaningless and counterproductive. Closing the Chinese consulate has always meant sacrificing the US embassy in China, because Beijing has no choice but to retaliate. China responds wisely when necessary, but shows restraint when possible.

Trump is struggling in the face of the pandemic. The global epidemic has killed more than 140,000 Americans and infected more than 4 million Americans. After the death of the unarmed black George Floyd in May, the country was affected by racial injustice. The police brutality caused a national commotion. When asked about Trump’s interview on Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “The truth is, whether he knows it or not, he will leave.”

Trump’s next campaign path will not be magnanimous, and the anti-China strategy can only become a desperate campaign plan, but this does not change the fact that he is defeated.

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