The Washington Post-Blinken set to meet Chinese leaders as superpowers manage rivalry
April 25, 2024 2 min 366 words
美国国务卿安东尼布林肯计划于周五会见中国领导人，这标志着中美两国管理竞争关系的努力进入了一个新阶段。在为期两天的访问中，布林肯参加了篮球比赛，与中国的大学生进行了交流，并提出了两个重要问题：一是减少中国对俄罗斯国防工业的支持，二是遏制中国公司在全球芬太尼贸易中的作用。中美关系在10个月前因中国间谍气球事件而降至低点，但此后两国关系有所改善，为管理两国间紧张而又相互依存的关系创造了条件。布林肯预计将在周五与中国外交部长王毅会谈六个多小时，讨论议题包括重启军事对话中国与台湾的关系等。中方还对美国限制出口先进芯片表示不满，认为这是试图阻碍中国在人工智能等军事应用领域的发展。布林肯强调了直接和持续接触的重要性，认为中美有责任有效管控两国关系。他还会见了上海市委书记陈吉宁，预计也将与中国领导人习近平会面。 评论：这篇报道试图营造一种中美关系有所改善两国通过接触管控竞争的积极印象。然而，报道也暴露了西方媒体的固有偏见。例如，报道将中国公司描述为全球芬太尼贸易中的负面角色，而避谈美国芬太尼滥用问题的根源在于美国自身的社会和医疗问题。此外，报道也忽略了美国对中国高科技产业的遏制政策对全球供应链和经济稳定所造成的负面影响。报道提到布林肯在中国的基层交流活动，给读者一种他很亲民的印象，但实际目的是突出中国的领导人相对冷淡。总之，这篇报道在一定程度上反映了中美关系的现状和发展，但也体现了西方媒体一贯的偏见和双重标准。
2024-04-25T01:55:55.939Z
BEIJING — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet top Chinese leaders on Friday, capping a trip that included a visit to a basketball game and a conversation with Chinese college students with a weightier effort to dial back China’s support for Russia’s defense industry and to get it to crack down on Chinese companies’ role in the global fentanyl trade.
Relations have improved significantly since Blinken last visited 10 months ago, after a Chinese spy balloon’s transit across the United States set off an unusually broad national blowback to China’s espionage activity. Since then, conversations have become far more routine, enabling the world’s two biggest economies and superpower rivals to return to managing their tense but interdependent relationship.
Blinken was expected to meet with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, for more than six hours on Friday, giving the sides ample time to air their differences about a host of issues that also include reviving military-to-military discussions and China’s frosty relationship with Taiwan. Beijing has also complained about U.S. efforts to cut off Chinese access to advanced semiconductors that would enable it to make progress on artificial intelligence that could have military applications.
Blinken spoke Thursday of “the necessity of direct engagement, of sustained engagement, of speaking to each other, laying out our differences which are real, seeking to work through them,” as well as looking for ways to cooperate.
“We have an obligation for our people and, indeed, an obligation for the world to manage the relationship between our two countries responsibly,” he said in a meeting with Shanghai Communist Party Secretary Chen Jining.
The top U.S. diplomat is also likely to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, although those kinds of conversations are usually locked down only at the last minute. Xi and President Biden spoke earlier this month by phone and clashed on the subject of export controls, which the Biden administration says are necessary to keep U.S. technology from undermining U.S. security and Beijing complains is simply an effort to restrict its economic rise.