by Stephen Lendman
In early January, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi extended an olive branch to the incoming Biden regime.
Days earlier, head of China’s Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Yang Jiechi called on Biden/Harris to repair deteriorated bilateral relations under Trump, saying:
His government “is prepared to work with the US to move the relationship forward along the track of no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation for the well-being of both countries and peoples.”
His remarks and Wang’s fell on deaf ears in Washington.
Prospects for improved bilateral relations are virtually nil.
President Xi Jinping, Yang, and other Chinese officials know that hostile policies pursued by Trump will likely continue in similar fashion under Biden/Harris.
The new regime in Washington is highly likely to continue imperial rage against China, Russia, Iran, and other nations free from US control.
In stark contrast to Sino/Russian cooperation, both nations renewing their Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation in pursuit of “ever-lasting peace and win-win cooperation,” US relations with both countries are more dismal than any time in recent decades.
On Thursday, China’s PLA said it’s tracking the provocative movements of the USS John McCain guided-missile destroyer as it unacceptably sails through the Taiwan Strait.
The message of its movements is clear. US hostility toward China under Biden/Harris is unchanged.
According to PLA Senior Colonel Zhang Chunhui, movements of the warship are being closely monitored, adding:
The US under Biden/Harris is up to its old tricks — willfully creating tensions, disrupting regional peace and stability.
Because of a pattern of repeated US provocations, the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command is on high alert.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the following:
“China has closely followed and grasped the situation of US warships passing through the Taiwan Strait.”
“China will continue to maintain a high level of alert at all times, respond to all threats and provocations at all times, and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
“It is hoped that the United States will play a constructive role in regional peace and stability, not the other way around.”
Chances of Biden/Harris turning a page for improved relations with China are virtually nil — what its leadership and PLA understand well.
Transit of US warships near Chinese waters have nothing to do with freedom of navigation, the rule of law, and what the US navy’s seventh fleet called Washington’s “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific (sic.”
These unacceptable provocations are all about showing the flag and Washington’s aim to dominate a part of the world not its own.
Similar provocations occur in the Middle East, near Russia’s borders, and elsewhere worldwide.
Along with endless US wars by hot and other means, it’s how Washington’s hegemonic scourge operates everywhere.
While continuing the US one-China policy, Biden affirmed his regime’s support for Taiwan, calling it “rock solid.”
Last week, Beijing warned Biden that supporting Taiwan’s independence “means war.”
According to the South China Sea Probing Initiative, US warships provocatively sailed through the Taiwan Strait 13 times last year.
Pentagon military flights continue near China’s territory.
Biden/Harris support an increased US military footprint in the Indo-Pacific.
Days after their inauguration, the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group sailed through the South China Sea.
A Pentagon Indo-Pacific Command statement said the “7th fleet conducts forward-deployed naval operations in support of US national interests throughout a free and open Indo-Pacific area of operations to foster maritime security (sic), promote stability(sic), and prevent conflict (sic).”
US imperial aims are polar opposite the above claims.
According to Sino/US relations expert Shi Yinhong, bilateral “confrontation and arms competition will basically remain unchanged as the US will deploy more strategic weapons to the Indo-Pacific.”
While Sino/US military relations remain stabile, hostile Biden regime actions toward China could change things for the worst.
Pledges by US officials to maintain stable bilateral relations can be broken by Washington in pursuit of its hegemonic aims.
It’s why the US can never be trusted, time and again saying one thing, then going another way.
According to US war secretary Lloyd Austin, Biden regime “strategy will be arrayed against threat(s) (to the US that don’t exist), and China presents the most significant threat going forward because China is ascending (sic).”
“Russia is also a threat (sic), but it’s in decline (sic).”
Military expert Song Zhongping said Austin’s remarks indicate US hostility toward China.
The US tolerates no nations free from its control.
Its policy highlights the risk of war against an invented enemy by accident or design.
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