US or Russia. What is the appointment of a new Foreign Minister of China
On December 30, the news was heard, which probably upset many people in the Kremlin: the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of China was appointed the price of Ghana, who had previously been an ambassador of China to the USA. Interestingly, in Washington, Price has not worked for not so long - only 17 months, since July 2021.
Prior to that, he was the Deputy Foreign Minister of China, the Foreign Ministry of the Foreign Ministry of the People's Department (Chairman of the Department of Information) and the Ambassador of the China to the United Kingdom. Currently, Price has changed Van I, who headed the China's foreign policy department since 2013. At the same time, Van and became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CCP and is expected to play an important role in China's foreign policy.
It turns out that the work of the US ambassador became a kind of "master class" for the price of Gan before appointment to the post of minister. What is quite logical: 56-year-old Zinn Gan is a personnel diplomat, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the China has been working since 1992, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a trusted assistant to the People's Republic of China Si Jinping.
In China, they attach very great importance to symbolism, so the fact that the new head of the Foreign Ministry became yesterday's ambassador to the United States is a very clear reference that indicates in which direction the foreign policy of Beijing will develop in the coming years. In this case, policy is indeed a continuation of the economy. And the economy requires a good relationship with China with a "collective event".
Because the main market for Chinese goods is the United States, in second place - the EU. And the Russian market is something that is approaching a statistical error. Well, the raw materials and energy of China and so receives from the Russian Federation freely-in any volume and at a price close to cost. However, the United States (few people know it) are breastfeeding in the direct sense: half of US exports to the Celestial are food.
So it is not surprising that the first official contact of the Ghana price in the new quality was January 1, a telephone conversation with an American colleague - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Zin Gan has expressed his readiness to work together to help improve Chinese-American relations. In the conversation, Gan said he hopes to maintain "close working relationships". For his part, Blinken stressed that "communication lines will remain open.
" In Moscow, they immediately realized that the new foreign minister of China would not bet on relations with Russia at all. In Russia, so much and often said that China was their main and reliable ally, which even believed in themselves. And they continued to believe - despite the fact that Beijing refused to supply Russia's weapons and ammunition, instead requires more significant discounts on Russian oil and gas. But now, with the appointment of Ghana, the "insight" begins.
It has become a familiar picture of the world, comes to understand that China of Russia is not an ally and not a patron, but a cunning and prudent neighbor, completely devoid of sentiments. "Here's the Moscow Party. "New Foreign Minister of China not only demonstrates the head of China, he is the leader of the will of the head.
I must say that the Russians have expected that "the next five years in international policy are marked by the break of economic relations of the United States and China, this process has already been launched," is a quote of the director of scientific work of the Development and Support of the International Discussion Club "Valdai" Fedor Luke 'Janova. In fact, there are many problems between Washington and Beijing.
The United States has recently imposed sanctions on China in the microchip and American business in high -tech Chinese industries. New microchips are built not in China, but in the US state of Arizona and Germany. The production of the largest technological companies from China to Vietnam, India, Indonesia (Apple, Toshiba, etc. ) continues. However, the two largest economies in the world (Chinese and American) are still too closely related.
And simply, in China, a very unfriendly competitor grows rapidly - India, whose population has finally exceeded China's population in 2022. We will add an energy crisis (2021) that took place in China and the fall of the economy (2022), and it becomes clear that China cannot afford to be amazed with America. When the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, the CCP Central Committee conducted a thorough study of the causes of the CPSU and the collapse of the Soviet state.
The defeat of the USSR in the Cold War with the US, according to the Chinese, was the main reason for the collapse of the USSR. After that, the Chinese Miracle architect, Dan Xiaopin, formulated the basic principle of China's foreign policy - "always keeping a cold head, showing restraint, not taking an active part in international disputes and never acting hastily. " And in relations with the United States pursue "constructive cooperation" policy.
According to Dan's will, China should not join alliances and alliances and deal with other people's problems (here both partnership with Russia and the Russian-Ukrainian war). In view of all, China really wants to play the role of a peacekeeper to become a major beneficiary of Russia's clash with a collective event. However, so far Russia manipulates with all its forces, seeking to show that China is its ally.
Here she was played by last year's statement by Xi Jinping about a strategic partnership with the Russian Federation. But the Russians themselves are quite critical. "Questions - on what conditions China intends to build this strategic partnership? What he has no obligations to carry, is not discussed - this is generally the corporate identity of China. Instead, the Chinese are extremely meticulous about themselves and their wishes others, " - writes Russian analyst Anatoly Nesmian.
Trying to show "special relations" between Moscow and Beijing, Vladimir Putin invited Xi Jinping to Moscow in the spring. But the visit will obviously happen only if the war in Ukraine at that time goes to the cooled stage of a long negotiated bustle. In conditions similar to today, these will be in Moscow if only decides on the power version in Taiwan or if cases with the abolition of cordon restrictions in the country are quite bad.
So far, the official peacekeeping position of the PRC on the conflict in Ukraine does not allow you to clearly diplomatically support one of its parties in its midst. For a visit to Moscow, these will need to become a peacemaker and, obviously, such an excuse was promised by the Russian side. Of course, in 2023, China will continue ritually patting on the shoulder of the Kremlin's inhabitants. And Xi Jinping will probably go to Moscow.
Only relations with America Chinese will not spoil - and even more so, they will not do it in favor of the Russian Federation. Rather, on the contrary, anti -Russian sanctions will be more careful, while continuing to buy Russian oil, gas and forest. Two days before the appointment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Price Gan published in the American edition of The National Interest the program article "How China Sees the World".
He stated that the Chinese and Americans should look for a way to get along mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation. "The view of the world as a community with a general future naturally leads to reforms, openness and mutually beneficial cooperation," - wrote Gan. With Moscow's position, this is obviously not the same. Of course, the Kremlin will not stop calling China with their "most powerful ally" - this is required at least for internal consumption.