The Regime’s Embarrassing Isolation
On April 7, Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the regime’s mouthpiece Xinhua News reported.To the CCP, Germany is the weakest link in the Western camps. Top CCP leaders always used Germany as their last resort during internationally desperate conditions.
Xi once again pinned his hopes on Germany when the CCP was in a direct stalemate with the United States and Europe. The call to Germany’s leader shows that the CCP has fallen into international isolation.
Xinhua’s report mainly covered what Xi said in the phone call: “he hopes that Germany will remain open and create more convenience for the enterprises of both countries to expand mutually beneficial cooperation.” “China stands ready to work with the EU... and jointly practice multilateralism,” and “promote fair and reasonable vaccine distribution.”
Of course, Xi hopes that Germany and Europe will not join forces with the United States to fight against the CCP. At the same time, he continues to draw a big piece of the pie for German companies and tout cooperation on vaccines.
Xinhua also stated that Merkel “hopes to maintain communication with China on issues such as fair distribution and mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccines.”
CCP and Iran Take Advantage of Each Other
On March 27, Iran and the CCP signed a 25-year $400 billion strategic and economic partnership. It continues to fuel the CCP’s ongoing Belt and Road Initiative for hegemony.The CCP certainly hopes to use Iran and the terrorist organizations it supports to drag the U.S. military further into the Middle East, but after the first round of indirect tentative military engagements between the new U.S. government and Iran in Syria in Februrary, Iran has not increased its military provocations against the United States. In fact, Iran began negotiating with the United States on April 7 in order to strive for greater benefits. Iran may be using the CCP’s recent large-scale challenge to the United States in the Pacific as a bargaining chip.
North Korea Is More Words Than Actions
After the tense China-U.S. meeting in Alaska, the CCP immediately interacted openly with North Korea. North Korea also conducted its short-range missile test. North Korea even issued statements of threat to the White House. But it has not made high-profile claims about nuclear tests, nor has it launched high-level long-range ballistic missiles.North Korea and the CCP continue to spin their roles in intimidating the United States, but North Korea seems to know when to stop. After all, the new U.S. government has publicly stated that it has been trying to communicate with North Korea through the original channels. The ultimate goal of North Korea is to use nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip to achieve a breakthrough in relations with the United States. North Korea should know that the CCP is not strong enough to be an opponent of the United States, and North Korea is not even qualified to challenge the United States. Kim Jong-un knew that once a war is engaged with the United States, he himself would be beheaded soon, and he would not dare to take such a risk.
Russia Is Also Using the CCP
Russia’s military actions have attracted the attention of the United States, but they are not helping the CCP to contain the U.S. military. The U.S. military should have no intention to intervene in any possible wars between Russia and Ukraine. On the contrary, Russia may be taking advantage of the CCP’s further antagonism with the United States and the West by trying to fish in troubled waters and trying to resolve its conflicts with Ukraine. This is an ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Republic or the Commonwealth of Independent States and has little to do with the interests of the United States. Of course, the United States does not want to see war in any region, nor does it want Russia to arbitrarily undermine international rules.In fact, NATO is more affected by Russia’s move, which actually sounded the alarm to NATO European countries. Faced with the imminent threat, Ukraine also revealed its desire to join NATO. Russia has made it clear that it will not form a military alliance with the CCP. Instead, it should hope that the CCP will provoke the U.S. military more. It is best to pull both aircraft carriers to the Pacific and South China Seas. Russia’s political pressure of aggression against Ukraine will be reduced a lot if the CCP continues to engage in its hostile act against the EU.
I don’t think Russia has any intention to help the CCP to target the United States at all. Russia is trying to strengthen its own interests during the international chaos created by CCP’s attacks from all sides.
The CCP wants to win over and take advantage of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. These three countries may have their own commitments to the CCP in private, but none of them have rushed to the forefront of anti-Americanism. Only the CCP itself is the most vigorous. These three countries are actually taking advantage of the CCP, losing no time in seeking their own interests.
The CCP’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi also recently met with the foreign ministers of South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Of course, he also tried to draw these neighboring countries to China’s side. But it is clear that these countries are unlikely to be on the anti-U.S. camp.
When China and the United States are in confrontation, these countries are taking advantage of the opportunity to their best benefit and avoiding offending either one. The top-level CCP officials cannot count on these countries to be anti-American. They can only try to prove to the party members that there are still communications with some countries. Of course, they have to pay a high price to these countries in private. That’s all the top officials of the CCP can do.
The CCP’s anti-American alliance obviously failed to form, instead it pushed itself further into an isolated frontline.
