Anchorage (Alaska) is the first and foremost juvenile detainee among the ladies of the United States diplomacy, Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, and their Chinese homologues, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi. A quote with the highest levels: the new State Administration aspires to counter Pekin’s aggressive diplomacy and to increase its strategic dependence on key members; and the Asian giant, has not given up on its sovereignty or security in matters such as Hong Kong or the situation in the Xinjiang region. Human rights, lucha by the competence and a tense commercial war heredada by Donald Trump dibujan the scenario will unfold a new episode of the lucha by global supremacy.
Pact to mutate mutually, and to expose the bilingual plantations of bilateral lazas in the next four years, we will hope for progress in this first meeting of the Biden era between the two world giants. For the past 12 months he has lived the most difficult moments in this case 50 years of relationships, and there are no visions of vayan to improve in a radical way. The White House is in full revision of 100 days on its Pekín policy. China —convenient of that, in words of its leader Xi Jinping, “Orient is in Alza and Occident in Decadence” —lleges to approve a Quinquenal Plan with which the plan blinds its economy of excessive external dependencies.
At the beginning of the meeting, Blinken demonstrated that EE UU expressed its “deep concern” over the actions of China in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as the cybercrimes against its countries and economic cohesion in allied nations. Yang responded to the Estado Secretariat accusing the EEU of using its military power and financial supremacy to pressure the countries and use the defense of national security to organize the future of international trade.
The first descent will not be late to produce. The first hour of the tarde, local -madrugada in the Península-, Yang Jiechi arranged with “corporate actions against the injustice of EE UU”, a statement statements demagogues by Washington.
“China has a firm commitment to the unity of the United States and our internal support. “We have expressed our opposition to this company in our insult, and we will take companies with it,” said the head of Chinese diplomacy, quoted by Efe. “We want to abandon the mentality of the Free War”, added. The replica estadounidense fue inmediata. “The Chinese delegation appears to have been accused of having grandiose intentions that were more important than the stage in which it was responsible, in addition to upholding the protocol”, declares a high official of the White House in Anchorage.
Before this first encounter, both parties have decided not to make a final joint statement. Tampoco social act together to wrap the heel between the two delegations — not to mention one of the habitual scenes in this type of encounters — between the three sessions, three hours each, are on the agenda.
The reunion, at the height of trucking between capital and capital through Washington’s insistence, produced despite the fact that Blinken and Sullivan had completed a turnaround in Asia that took them to Tokyo and Seoul, the first to leave outside its premises. Along with the virtual presidency meeting chaired by President Joe Biden during the quad call of the Quad Ella informal defensive alliance between EE UU, Japan, Australia and India -, the Anchorage meeting has been held that Casa Blanca can pursue a common strategy with its allied asians. A gesture with which Washington wants to communicate to China the attention it has to dedicate to Asia — and its rivalry with Pekin — in the near future.
In general terms, the alliance’s differentiation that defines other chapters of its external policy (a reference to Obama’s years), the new China’s policy of the Biden Administration heralds the reticences and remarks of Trump, and the plantation of that. confrontation with Pekin results inevitably. But Blinken and Sullivan went to Alaska to learn that China’s Republican administration’s political policy – the allied war, its intentions to ban Huawei or TikTok and its empire to denounce “Chinese virus” in coronavirus — no han logrado torcer ni one millimeter the volunteer of Xi Jinping.
Thus, as Blinken reiterated, for Washington it tends to “put me in a simpler way to freak out in China and more in a way to correct more quickly than they do,” mediating a mayoral government investment in research and technologies such as semiconductor energy . Desir, to maintain a strategic dependence on key sectors, as demonstrates coronavirus control.
Pero, as in any negotiation that anticipates larvae and escabrosa, none of the two parties read with cedar; only to expose his positions and demand that the other one be the first step. With great ambitions, it will have a lot of space: both parties have made it clear that the rivalry is bound to fail and that, in sum, it has agreed to respect the forms and manage the tensions to avoid a tabernacle between the potential powers that be. so much for their respective economies — as will be enshrined in predictable futures, all the same — for the rest of the world.
Sanctions
United States has opened the meeting in anticipation of a meeting with a move that makes it clear: the imposition of sanctions on 24 officials of the Central Chinese Government and Hong Kong by the impending electoral reform in the antigua British colony, which will add another paper symbolic of the Democratic opposition and that Washington’s decision represents a clear setback in the “autonomous amplitude” that Beijing agreed to concede to autonomous territory until 2047.
China, for its part, has agreed against what it considers a Washington-Tokyo alliance to make front. También has responded to the statement of intent of the Administration of Joe Biden to plant in the also también complaints of its allies Australia and Canada enemy fecha for the juiciness of the Canadian citizens detained by more than a dozen arrests in Vancouver in December 2018 from the finance directorate of Huawei Technology, Meng Wanzhou. Ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig will be judged this morning; the empresario Michael Spavor, the moon.
In the wake of the sessions, global interest issues will be addressed in which both parties are interested in cooperating, such as the climatic change, the coronavirus pandemic, the situation in Myanmar and the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran.
About everything, “every country expands what the other needs to do to stabilize the relationship,” said Michael Hirson, Eurasia Group consultant, in a note. “This conversation is important, especially to repair the risk (of a strain of tensions) in strong points like Taiwan or the South China Sea”. “But no part is available to give over the series of monthly offers to reduce the more tensions, especially in economic matters”, added the analyst.
Requirements
In statements made by senior officials — including the Wang Yi proposal — Pekín was told to demand, among other things, the delivery of punitive measures imposed during Donald Trump’s term, from Huawei’s sanctions and other companies aancos of aranceles that gravan the immense majority of its exports.
So much so that Washington appears to be interested in responding, at the moment. At the meeting of the high-ranking officials of the economic area, although the Congress has approved the nomination of the new representative of the Exterior State Commerce, Katherine Tai, the first Asian to occupy this land.
The Secretary of State Blinken and the Councilor of National Security Sullivan, for his part, have been urging Pekín to reinstate the sovereignty over Taiwan, in favor of human rights and civil liberties in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, including one million members of the Muslim minority uigur have been interned in rehabilitation camps, according to the UN.
Given the expected expectations, a simple tone in the tone, or the constructive development of the conversations, it tends to take issue with it. “Both parties are likely to have months to engage in substantive debates on the most important issues in their relationship,” Hirson said. “There are more centers in its rivalry to influence third countries, and in domestic policies to advance in its economic and technological competition”.
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