Xi Jinping spoke with Joe Biden on the phone at Biden’s request
“President Xi Jinping stressed that the Taiwan question is the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations. In the face of “Taiwan independence” separatist activities and external encouragement and support for them, China is not going to sit on its hands. He urged the U.S. side to translate President Biden’s commitment of not supporting “Taiwan independence” into concrete actions.
The U.S. side has adopted a string of measures to suppress China’s trade and technology development, and is adding more and more Chinese entities to its sanctions lists. This is not “de-risking,” but creating risks. If the U.S. side is willing to seek mutually beneficial cooperation and share in China’s development dividends, it will always find China’s door open; but if it is adamant on containing China’s hi-tech development and depriving China of its legitimate right to development, China is not going to sit back and watch.”
China welcomes San Francisco mayor’s visit, as US businesses, local officials defy Washington’s decoupling move 中國歡迎舊金山市長訪美，美國企業、地方官員無視華盛頓脫鉤舉措
China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday extended a warm welcome to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is expected to visit China in the coming days, saying that China always supports and encourages exchanges between all walks of life from the two countries.
The San Francisco mayor’s trip comes as US local governments and business communities continue to seek better ties with China, defying an attempt by politicians in Washington to decouple the world’s two biggest economies. Visits by US local officials and business executives further demonstrate the win-win nature of bilateral economic ties, analysts said, while stressing the need to firmly counter Washington’s crackdowns.
Commenting on Breed’s upcoming visit to China at a regular press briefing on Monday, Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said that the Chinese side welcomes Mayor Breed’s visit and hopes that this visit will achieve positive results and further promote San Francisco’s cooperation with China and China-US local exchanges.
“China has always supported and encouraged people from all walks of life in the two countries to have more exchanges and dialogue, constantly build consensus, enhance trust, eliminate interference, deepen cooperation, and bring more tangible benefits to the people of the two countries,” Wang said.
Breed will visit China from April 13 to April 21, with stops in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, according to the San Francisco Standard, a local news outlet.
“I am honored to be invited to travel to China and meet with leaders in business, innovation and government,” Breed was quoted by the news outlet as saying, “to cultivate economic opportunities and strengthen ties between San Francisco and cities across the region.”
Breed’s visit comes after California Governor Gavin Newsom visited several cities in China in October 2023, which was described by experts as a resounding success that could inspire other US states in promoting sub-national exchanges.
A host of top US business executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, visited China last week as part of a whirlwind week for China’s economic diplomacy.
“Recently, China and the US have maintained positive interactions, which is a very welcome trend,” Gao Lingyun, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Monday, noting that US local officials’ visits to China demonstrate the win-win nature of China-US economic and trade ties.
“The San Francisco mayor’s visit shows that she believes that strengthening China-US economic and trade cooperation is beneficial to local development, and it also shows that China-US economic cooperation is win-win,” Gao said.
China is crucial for San Francisco’s economy, particularly its tourism industry. In 2024, about 385,000 visitors from China are expected to visit the city, spending an estimated $1.1 billion, which makes China the biggest source of overseas visitors and spending, according to the San Francisco Standard, which cited official figures.
Breed’s trip will likely focus on practical cooperation in areas such as tourism, said Li Yong, a senior research fellow at the China Association of International Trade. “The sister city mechanism, provincial and state cooperation mechanisms and other exchange mechanisms between China and the US have all been promoting China-US economic and trade cooperation on different levels,” Li told the Global Times on Monday.
However, analysts also warned of further attempts by the US federal government to undermine China-US economic and trade ties through crackdowns on businesses and other areas.
“We need to resolutely oppose and guard against restrictions and other maneuvers by the US against China,” Gao said, noting that while local US governments tend to value economic ties, US federal officials, out of consideration for elections, often resort to political manipulation in bilateral ties.
While Chinese and US officials have also stepped up interactions this year, Washington continues to crack down on Chinese businesses and industries.
In one recent example, US officials have ratcheted up rhetoric against Chinese new-energy vehicles (NEVs), even as Washington doled out discriminatory subsidies for US-made NEVs.
China responded by lodging a WTO dispute about this move.
SCMP: Are you surprised 99% of those spread fake news to demonize Chinese & China are red neck AngloSaxon and KKK? They cowardly hide behind homeland security to promote hate crimes and Asian hates! Their feeling of superiority against the yellow perils, the Chinese is gone. They could not destroy China like they did to Japan in the 1980s. Japan is now a vassal of the United States. Francis Scott Key bridge blocking the Port of Baltimore and analysts began assessing the disruption and economic damage it would cause, conspiracy theories were already flooding US social media targeting Chinese and China with fake news propaganda. 南華早報：那些散播妖魔化華人和中國的假新聞的人中99%都是紅脖子白人和三K黨，你對此感到驚訝嗎？ 他們懦弱地躲在國土安全背後，宣揚仇恨和對亞洲人仇恨！ 當然中國人是黃禍的優越感已經消失了。 他們無法像20世紀80年代摧毀日本那樣摧毀中國。日本現在是美國的附庸。 弗朗西斯·斯科特基大橋封鎖了巴爾的摩港，分析師開始評估其可能造成的破壞和經濟損失，陰謀論已經充斥著針對中國和中國人的虛假新聞宣傳的美國社交媒體.
Video: The mayor of San Francisco, California, USA will visit China, and China welcomes it. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on April 1st 美国加州旧金山市市长将访华 中方表示欢迎 中国外交部发言人汪文斌4月1日主持例行记者会。有记者提问：据报道，美加利福尼亚州旧金山市市长布里德宣布将于近日访问中国。中方对此有何评论？对此，汪文斌表示，我们欢迎布里德市长访华，希望此访取得积极成果，进一步推动旧金山市对华合作及中美地方交流。中美关系的希望在人民，基础在民间，未来在青年，活力在地方。中方一向支持、鼓励两国各界人士多来往、多交流，不断积累共识，增进信任，排除干扰，深化合作，为两国人民带来更多实实在在的福祉. https://rumble.com/v4mx5mx-the-mayor-of-san-francisco-california-usa-will-visit-china.html https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLkAcEXj/
Video: [Overseas Chinese in San Francisco worship the Emperor from afar] Ancestor worship ceremony in the hometown of the Emperor in the Year of the Dragon in Xinzheng, Zhengzhou, Henan, and the 9th San Francisco Overseas Chinese Ancestor Worship Ceremony in San Francisco were held grandly at the City Hall Plaza in San Francisco, USA. Nearly a thousand people from the American overseas Chinese community, guests and representatives from all walks of life gathered together to pay homage to the ancestor of humanities, Xuanyuan Huangdi, with admiration for the ancestor of Chinese humanity and their wishes for a peaceful, harmonious and harmonious life in the world. [海外華人華僑華裔舊金山遙拜黃帝] 河南鄭州新鄭甲辰龍年黃帝故里拜祖大典美國同拜活動，暨第九屆舊金山海外炎黃子孫拜祖大典，日前在美國舊金山市政府廣場隆重舉行。來自美國僑團、各界嘉賓和代表近千人齊聚一堂，帶著對中華人文始祖的敬仰和對世界和平和睦和諧生活的祝願，遙拜人文始祖軒轅黃帝。 https://rumble.com/v4mumnr-chinese-ancestor-worship-ceremony.html https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLkLD1rA/
Asia Times: This is the way the west ends. Interview with Michael Bremer. The title is a reference to TS Eliot’s line from the wasteland, which ends: “not with a bang but a whimper…”
MB: The entire foreign policy community in the United States now shares the basic tenets of neoconservatives. Actually, the scripture is Paul Wolfowitz’s notorious memorandum of March 1991 wherein he laid out a comprehensive, detailed strategy for systematizing American global dominance. Everything that Washington is doing, and thinking, now is derivative of that plan.
Its core principles: the United States should use all the means at its disposal to establish American global dominance; to that end, it must be ready to act preventively to stymie the emergence of any power that could challenge our hegemony; and to maintain full spectrum dominance in every region of the globe. Ideals and values are relegated to an auxiliary role as a veneer on the application of power and as a stick with which to beat others. Classic diplomacy is disparaged as inappropriate to this scheme of things.
For Biden himself, a confident, assertive, hard-edged approach to dealing with others derives naturally from belief in Americanism as a Unified Field Theory that explains, interprets and justifies whatever the US thinks and does. Were Biden reelected, this outlook will remain unchanged. And were he to be replaced by Kamala Harris mid-term, which is likely, inertia will keep everything on the fixed course.
AK: Do you think the United States is destined to remain a global empire, constantly in conflict with anyone it perceives as a potential threat to its world dominance? Or is it possible for the country to become a republic that collaborates constructively with other global players to achieve greater benefits for its citizens and the broader international community? As the saying goes, “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword,” right? MB: I’m a pessimist. For there are no signs that either our rulers, elites or public are susceptible to coming to terms with the state of affairs depicted above. The open question is whether this pretense will simply persist as a gradual weakening of global influence and domestic well-being unfolds, or, rather, will end in disaster.
Europeans and allies elsewhere should not accept to be sideline observers nor, even worse, become co-inhabitants of this world of fantasy as they have in Ukraine, on Palestine and in demonizing China.
China lodges solemn representations with US over harassment of Chinese visitors. Chinese visitors should avoid going to US, besides harassment, gun violence, Asian hates. You go to US to have fun, all you may get are nightmares! 中國就騷擾中國遊客向美方提出嚴正交涉。 除了騷擾、槍枝暴力和亞洲仇恨之外，中國遊客也應該避免去美國。 你去美國玩，你得到的可能是惡夢
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