Iran Press/ Asia: What the United States has always tried to do is to constitute provocation in Asia, and it is fond of meddlesome in the Asian region's affairs. U.S. security policy in the Asia-Pacific region directly affects China’s security interests.
The US has a record of grossly interfering in China’s domestic affairs on issues concerning China’s core interests, including Taiwan. It seeks to undermine China’s security and stability by, both overtly and covertly, condoning and supporting separatist activities.
Taiwan; "core interest"
Sino-U.S. ties have deteriorated across the board in recent years, raising concern the two might one day clash militarily over the self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
Chinese readout of Sunday's meetings described it as constructive but made clear that Taiwan is the most important issue, and a potentially dangerous one.
"Qin Gang pointed out that the Taiwan issue is the core of China's core interests, the most important issue in Sino-US relations, and the most prominent risk," Chinese state media quoted Qin as having told the top U.S. diplomat.
Especially alarming for China's neighbors has been Beijing's reluctance to engage in regular military-to-military talks with Washington.
Making the first visit to China by a U.S. secretary of state in five years, Antony Blinken held more than 7-1/2 hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday, although they did not appear to make concrete progress on the wide ranging disputes that include Taiwan, trade, human rights and stemming the flow of materials from China to the United States used in the production of fentanyl.
"Despite very low expectations for any breakthroughs made during Blinken's visit to China, there is still hope that both sides can maintain their 'bottom line' in the relationship," state-run Chinese tabloid Global Times said in an editorial on Monday.
Briefing reporters late on Sunday, U.S. officials said there were no illusions that the issues would be solved with a few meetings but starting the conversations was an achievement.
"This is going to be a process of sustained diplomacy," one senior State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said.
All eyes will be on whether the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will also meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day, an engagement sources familiar with the matter said was expected but yet to be confirmed by the State Department.
Blinken was originally due to visit China in February, but the trip was postponed after the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon flying over the country.
Making the first visit to China since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, Blinken stressed "the need to reduce the risk of misperception and miscalculation" in his talks with Qin, the State Department said.
U.S. officials have been playing down the prospect of a major breakthrough in talks, but they and analysts expect Blinken's visit will pave the way for more bilateral meetings in coming months, including possible trips by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
It could also set the stage for talks between Xi and Biden at multilateral summits later in the year.
Despite its claims that it doesn’t seek to block China from its role as a major power, nor to stop it from growing its economy, the US is actually deploying its domestic and external resources to unscrupulously contain and suppress China.
The US has also tried to hold joint drills with South Korea over years. This issue also provokes North Korea to launch a number of missiles to show its defence capability.
It is the US that invented “coercive diplomacy” and excels at coercing countries. Over the years, by imposing economic blockade, unilateral sanctions and other means, the US has practiced coercive diplomacy around the world.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has either launched or participated in many wars overseas, including the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghan War and the Iraq War. Those wars caused extremely severe civilian casualties and property losses, and lead to colossal humanitarian disasters. Since 2001, US wars and military operations in the name of counterterrorism have killed more than 900,000 people, about 335,000 of whom were civilians, injured millions and displaced tens of millions.
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