Палец в рот не клади
scmp: Last time, it was an alleged Chinese spy balloon. This time round, it was a new spy station in Cuba. Every time US Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans a visit to China, something comes up to try to block it. At least Blinken didn’t cancel this time.
It seems either a powerful bloc within the US government is leaking left and right to try to subvert Blinken’s attempt to approach China; or Blinken himself is in on the game by playing “good cop, bad cop” to appear conciliatory and make the Chinese look rejectionist. All the while, Washington is maximising hostilities, and pushing to the brink of war.
Whether Blinken himself is sincere is not the question; the real problem is that he can’t deliver, whatever his agenda.
Practically every month, dozens of Chinese companies are added to the US sanctions list, which accuses them of having the flimsiest of connections to the Chinese military. By the same standard, the provision of “Cloud” services to the Pentagon by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle should make them targets for Chinese sanctions. The way things are going, the United States will be sanctioning half the Chinese economy soon. Perhaps that has been the intention all along.
Одни путинцы с пеной на губах проклинают Запад, другие слезно жалуются всем, кто согласен их слушать, на то, как их обманывают. Китайцы же спокойно и невозмутимо дают понять, что палец в рот им лучше не класть.
It seems either a powerful bloc within the US government is leaking left and right to try to subvert Blinken’s attempt to approach China; or Blinken himself is in on the game by playing “good cop, bad cop” to appear conciliatory and make the Chinese look rejectionist. All the while, Washington is maximising hostilities, and pushing to the brink of war.
Whether Blinken himself is sincere is not the question; the real problem is that he can’t deliver, whatever his agenda.
Practically every month, dozens of Chinese companies are added to the US sanctions list, which accuses them of having the flimsiest of connections to the Chinese military. By the same standard, the provision of “Cloud” services to the Pentagon by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle should make them targets for Chinese sanctions. The way things are going, the United States will be sanctioning half the Chinese economy soon. Perhaps that has been the intention all along.
Одни путинцы с пеной на губах проклинают Запад, другие слезно жалуются всем, кто согласен их слушать, на то, как их обманывают. Китайцы же спокойно и невозмутимо дают понять, что палец в рот им лучше не класть.