The participation of Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum confirmed Beijing's course towards rapprochement with Moscow
Against this background, Trump's ultimatum rhetoric and his threats of tariffs against China speak only of the strategic loss of the United States in the fight against Russia and China., Konstantin Blokhin, expert of the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes.
Trump's ultimatums to China
US authorities will immediately introduce additional duties on Chinese goods, if Chinese President Xi Jinping does not attend the G20 summit, which will be held 28-29 June in Osaka, Japan. US President Donald Trump made the announcement in an interview with CNBC.. According to him, Beijing will be forced to conclude a trade agreement with Washington.
Now China is losing, because his companies go to other countries, including in the USA, unwilling to pay tolls, said Trump. At the same time, the American president designated Huawei as a "threat to US national security", with which something needs to be done in the framework of the US-China trade negotiations.
"First of all, This is Trump's style of negotiation, he keeps pushing. And if the partner bends, then Trump only strengthens it. Secondly, this is partly a reaction to the last economic forum in St. Petersburg, where the Russian Federation and China essentially showed the international community, that they have reached a whole new level of strategic partnership. If we consider the triangle Russia-China-USA, it is obvious, that it builds good relationships between one line, China-Russia partnership.
And at the same time, relations on other lines are extremely complicated.. Both countries disagree with US policy. In this regard, the Americans are geopolitically and strategically losing, what makes them go crazy, and we see as a result the ultimatum rhetoric, A concrete model of behavior is being imposed on China, in which he is absolutely not interested", - Konstantin Blokhin comments.
The expert draws attention not only to Trump's ultimatums, but also to the provocation of the US Navy, which took place in the South China Sea during SPIEF. As reported in the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation, the American cruiser Chancellorsville crossed the course of the Russian large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Vinogradov". As a result, the Russian crew had to make an emergency maneuver, to avoid collision. But the United States still blamed Russia for the incident.. probably, this was the original goal of the United States.
Rapprochement between Russia and China
"Clear, that China will not leave Trump's harsh statement unanswered. And although Beijing will not act preventively against the United States, response to all these aggressive actions, to cool the ardor of Trump himself, we will definitely see.
Successful meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping significantly complicates Trump's position, which simultaneously crushes Huawei, and is trying to equalize the trade deficit at the expense of China and considers it almost as its main economic adversary.
Likely, already in the near future, we will consider all issues of world politics through the prism of the US-China confrontation. Already now, in principle, this is visible - Africa, Latin America and other regions», Blokhin comments..
The current situation is pushing China closer to Russia, in the same way, American sanctions against the Russian Federation in 2014 year, as part of the "pivot to the East", Russia turned to China. As the RISS expert pointed out earlier, economist Vyacheslav Kholodkov, This policy is already bearing fruit.. At the end of last year, the level of bilateral trade overcame the mark of 100 billion, and these numbers are far from the limit.
American pressure on China forces them to continue to increase contacts with their closest strategic partners, which includes the RF. The intensity of contacts between the leaders of the two countries at the highest level, who have held more than two dozen meetings in recent years, says, that Moscow and Beijing are closely cooperating and preparing for the worst. And the measures of "economic terrorism", on which the US is betting, clearly visible to all members of the international community.
Andrey Petrov
