Today, are they showing a showdown?

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Today, Biden flew to Bavaria, Germany 1, and the two long -promoted "heavy" summits in the West immediately appeared in succession.

In addition to the top priority in the United States and Europe, the "threat of China" was also unsurprisingly rendered as a key issue. The G7 summit is not only launched by the new global infrastructure partnership plan for the "Belt and Road" initiative, but also discuss the problems of China's so -called "forced labor" and "stealing intellectual property rights".

The NATO Summit was in advance. For the first time, "China" was written into NATO's latest version of the "strategic concept" document, which was quite obvious to fight against China.

One of the same attention is that the leaders of the four Asia -Pacific countries of Japan, South Korea, and Australia will also appear at the NATO Madrid Summit. Among them, Japan and South Korea also participated for the first time.

Does this information indicate that the process of NATO Asia Pacific is accelerating significantly? Will Bayeng in a bunch of messy stalls be more "united" with European and Asia -Pacific allies in Europe?

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"The Seventh Kingdom Group will jointly announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold."

The G7 summit just opened today, and Biden had been anxious to make such a preview on Twitter, sitting in the previous media speculation.

In addition to the "gold ban", the G7 summit is expected to discuss other specific suggestions on replace Russian oil and natural gas imports, as well as other specific suggestions for "increasing pressure on Russia and showing support for black".

As the host and German Prime Minister Salz said, this year's G7 summit is to "convey more information about NATO and the Seven -Kingdoms Group more united at any time in the Ukrainian issue.

However, the gold content of this "unity" is very questionable, especially in Russia with major German energy supply.

No, Russia has just announced that it will stop Qi for 10 days to perform annual maintenance of the "Beixi-1" gas transmission pipeline. Berlin began to worry that Russia might completely cut off the natural gas supply to Germany. An emergency decree allows the federal government to restore coal fuel to power generation under the condition of natural gas shortage.

The sacrifice of its own interests and safeguarding the US hegemony, how to calculate this account, European countries should be clear.

China is another theme of this year's G7 summit.

There are already previews in advance: the United States "will reach the Bavaria with the most severe and stricken script to participate in the G7 summit."

As far as the current media exposure is concerned, the "strictest" is roughly divided into two hands:

The first is "approval".

According to Reuters from the US Air Force No. 1, on the way to Bayeng to Germany, the White House announced that the G7 will discuss China's so -called "forced labor" and "stealing intellectual property rights".

Last year's G7 summit has actually talked about similar topics.

At that time, the leaders of the meeting publicly criticized China on issues of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. They also asked WHO to conduct a second stage of investigation of the second stage of the new crown virus of "timely, transparent, by experts, and science -based".

However, on the issue of Chinese human rights, the communiqué last year was only vaguely "calling for China to respect basic freedom"; on the issue involving Xinjiang, there was no consensus on the prohibition of projects that benefited from "forced labor".

This year, it will go farther, that is, will the wording of China be tougher?

In fact, the strategic differences between the United States and Europe to China are irreplaceable. What the United States wants is the West knocking down China together. European countries and China have both ideological differences and economic competition and cooperation needs.

Therefore, no matter how hard it is, it is only "mouth guns".

The second is "Li".

The United States is expected to make another "grand commitment to hang people's appetite" at the G7 summit this year: the launch of "partnership covering global infrastructure, people's livelihood and digital infrastructure".

Washington has high hopes for this.

National Security Consultant Sarawan said, "This can replace what the Chinese provided and become another choice." "We intend to make this a sign of the Biden government's foreign policy within the remaining term."

A year ago, President Biden urged them to support the "Better Belt and Road" initiative to support the "Belt and Road" initiative when meeting with G7 leaders. Now it seems that the thunder is small.

If the name is changed, will the prospect be good?

The overall G7 country is facing high inflation, and it is unlikely to provide a lot of funds for the new "commitment" of the United States. It is said that it will "seek the contribution of the private sector."

From the perspective, the new so -called "partnership" is still a beautified "short check".

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After ending the German G7 Summit, Biden would run to the next stop of this trip to Europe, the Spanish capital Madrid. From the 29th to 30th, the NATO Summit will be held there.

Similar to the G7 summit, "response to the threat of China" is also one of the themes that NATO Summit has been in front of them in advance.

On the 22nd and earlier on the 16th, NATO Secretary -General Stoltenberg had "preheated" on two different occasions, especially for the "threat of China". "Forget" China.

Stoltenberg said that the NATO Madrid Summit will have five major points, including discussing to continue to provide support for Ukraine, review the issues of Finland and Sweden, and new "strategic concepts" documents that have guided the development of the next decade.

In summary, Russia, which was war in Ukraine, is the "most urgent threat", but China is also one of NATO's "all other security challenges that cannot be forgotten". In the process of rendering the "Chinese threat" into a "highlight", this NATO Summit mainly highlighted two attention points:

First, NATO's new "strategic concept" document will be named China for the first time.

This "first" was said to be "a huge progress" by NATO by US and NATO officials. Stoltenberg said he hoped that the Allies would say that China would "have some challenges in values, interests or security." This sounds like to urge 30 member states to "united fronts". In fact, it is a "political declaration" that represents NATO's indifferent to China.

Another concern is that the four Asia -Pacific countries in Japan, South Korea, and Australia also went to Madrid.

In NATO's 2030 reform plan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand were clearly defined as the four major partners of NATO in Asia Pacific. In the statement so far, Japanese Prime Minister Kishita is particularly positive. He will also become the first Japanese Prime Minister to attend the NATO Summit.

Before going to Europe, Kishida has stated that the cooperation between Japan and NATO will "push to a new stage."

When the news was announced on the 15th, he said that he would emphasize at the NATO summit that "the behavior that cannot allow force to change the status quo in any place in the world."

The Russian and Ukraine conflict to Asia Pacific, this set of puppets, Kishida and Japanese right -wing politicians have repeated more than once. NATO Summit will become another amplifier of them.

Compared with Japan, South Korea performed very cautiously in China.

When introducing the situation on the 22nd, the Presidential Palace tried to clarify the "suspicion" and emphasized that the South Korean president's first participation in the NATO summit does not mean that South Korea will turn to anti -China anti -Russian policy.

But even some Korean media said that Yin Xiyue's trip to Madrid will be regarded as "strengthening the Korean and American alliance and cooperating with the US diplomatic strategy." There are also many voices in South Korea that have stimulated China and Russia, "it is lost."

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Obviously, Biden wanted to use Russia -Ukraine's conflict and rendering "Chinese threats" this time, and brushed another wave of "unity" with Europe and even some Asia -Pacific allies. But as some US media observed, even European countries did not agree with the use of tough wording of China in the NATO framework.

They have at least two aspects of concerns: first, they do not want NATO to become a "global alliance" and have been dispersed; the other is that they do not want to clearly list China as their opponents.

A European issue scholar said to Mu Yidi that the differences within the West are getting more and more obvious.

Although European powers also want to use the crisis to enhance their own influence, they are more inclined to control the crisis control of Russia and Ukraine from their own interests. In the future, they hope to return to the negotiating table with Russia and do not want to go extreme on China.

However, the United States and Japan and other countries obviously want to use this crisis to make geopolitics in Europe and Asia Pacific into a long -term trend, and even further expand. The United States has desperately imposed its own strategic intention to the allies, mixed European and Asia -Pacific security issues, and talked about both China and Russia and other allies.

These two differential trends within the West are undergoing competition.

When the "Air Force One" flew to Europe, many media and observers in the United States and Europe noticed that the "troubles" that could not be dropped behind Bayeng: inflation is high, the risk of economic recession has intensified, and the right to abortion rights. The conservative politics behind the contention, the situation in the mid -November election of the Democratic party is worrying ...

In the case of facing heavy pressure in China, Biden visited the European visit, "What can I bring back?" What can I show? "What can I show the world? "This determines that he is like before, while shouting" unity "in his mouth, while continuing to push the ally to the front to the edge of the United States" cover the wind and rain. "

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