Diplomatic stories Does the hands rub it?
|EFE
The important Washington Post newspaper yesterday published an article that was about the advances made by China to tame metereological time.Thousands of people work at the Meteorology Agency and the next few days pass a decisive test.They want to clean the Beijing sky for the Olympic Games, attracting the rain and leaving a blue sky for several days of their celebration.
The article indicates that the Chinese have peppered on occasion or obtained modest results but the study oozes concern with China's progress in any sphere.
We have already commented that China is the main rival of the United States in the 21st century, although Russia has given some rabid bars in recent days, and the US media throughout last year and in parallel the Chinese have shown that there is avery deep mutual distrust.A survey teaches that 73% of Americans have a negative vision of China (Pew Research Center).Antagonism reaches politicians.The prudent Biden, not Trump's mouths, expressed months ago that China wants to become the greatest power of the earth and that "this will not happen during my mandate".Something chulesco.
On their side, the Chinese authorities, who control their means of information without ambigu.The times have passed when Chou in Lai and Nixon lit a not so fleeting honeymoon.China suffers great internal problems, some of enormous magnitude, the spina of Hongkong, the province of Xingjiang, the excesses against the Uigur Muslim minority, according to several NGOs there would be one million Muslims in concentration camps, something qualified as genocide by the Biden government, etc ... In any agitation in these lands the Chinese see the United States arter.As all dictatorial power do not enter the head that your enemies can love to create problems or struck them but that the root of evil is in your own behavior, broken commitments with Hongkong, reeducation of the uigures, opacity in information about information about information about information about information about information about information on information about information onThe origin of the pandemic ...
China, who had 400 before the pandemic.000 young people studying at Yankees universities, see Washington's overlapping intervention in the revolts of the Arab springs and what is happening in the center and east of Europe.Admitting that in the substrate there is an desire for freedom and desire to self -govern is too much for a regime like Chinese, economically open but politically monolithic.
How are Ukraine events seeing Beijing?Very possibly with satisfaction.The United States can be bogged in Ukraine even if it does not intervene militarily.Europeans show their divisions and some talk about setting up a reaction system without Americans.Russia Gallea but at this time does not have a tense relationship with China as in the past.Any wear of the other two great powers is good for China that reason that if the Europeans are divided when it comes to Russia in their continent they can hardly be dragged by the Americans to defend the territorial waters of Vietnam or the Philippines looking avidlyBeijing.
We will see if the sanctions to Russia truly pupa, they could push a greater approach between Russians and Orientals.If Washington imposes sanctions on Kremlin, Putin will have to resort to China to facilitate, for example, semiconductors.Both countries can also question the dollar -based payment system.
Finally, let's think of parallelism with Taiwan, Biden has flirted with the leaders of the island, more perhaps Trump.The progressive democratic party governs there with increasingly independence claims.Any military analyst will explain that Beijing has on the table detailed plans to invade Taiwan.Reflect on the cost.The reaction of states in the Ukrainian case will be illuminating although the White House has a commitment to defend Taiwan, not in a treaty, but in a less faint way than Washington's obligations with Ukraine.
I would give something to have punctured these days of two senior Chinese leaders when they talk about Ukraine.The United States and Taiwan would pay more than me.
