Straight to the point, there has been a big move on the American side, and the US military's 2 F-22 fighters have flown to the Middle East. From the perspective of time, this is just when China is preparing to show its strength in the Middle East, and the United States is not good.
The thing that everyone is most concerned about in the past two days should be Blinken's visit to China. But everyone may have overlooked that the president of Palestine also came to China two days ago. A summit meeting was also held in Beijing, and China and the State of Palestine formally established a strategic cooperative partnership.
It is worth mentioning that Blinken is coming, and the official statement of our Foreign Ministry is "agreed". And the Palestinian president came, and the official statement was "invite". The difference between the two is huge. Blinken came on his own, and the Palestinian president was invited by China on his own initiative. China's attitude towards the two has been judged from above.
You know, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lasted for more than half a century, and with the support of the United States, Israel has gradually encroached on the Palestinian territory and compressed the living space of the Palestinian people. To this day, the United States does not even recognize Palestine as a state. Palestine has not yet become a full Member of the United Nations.
China, on the other hand, took the initiative to invite Palestinian leaders to visit China, adopted the standard of receiving heads of state, and established a strategic partnership that only exists between countries. China has made it clear that it recognizes the state of Palestine and supports Palestine in striving for a fair and a chance of survival.
Moreover, in the context of the "great reconciliation" in the Middle East, China is ready to take action in the face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the core issue of the Middle East that has been chaotic for many years. China will shift its conservative diplomatic line in the Middle East and begin to take the initiative. That is, after China's statement, the American F-22 came.
A few days ago, the US Central Command issued a statement saying that in the past few months, Russian fighter jets have been "buzzing" over the US military base in Syria, which has seriously violated the agreement between the United States and Russia. The U.S. military fears that Russia may make some "unprofessional" and "unsafe" actions that could lead to conflict.
Therefore, the US Central Command officially sent the F-22 to the Middle East to ensure the US military's theater air supremacy when dealing with Russian fighters. On the surface, recently U.S. and Russian warplanes have indeed had many close encounters over Syria, and the United States sent F-22s mainly to show Russia its strength and determination.
But in my opinion, the United States has a more important purpose, or that the United States has ulterior motives. China's influence in the Middle East is getting stronger, and the United States realizes the seriousness of the problem and believes that something must be done as soon as possible to send a signal to the countries in the Middle East that the United States is still dominant. And the United States is talking about Russia, just a pretense, the United States is really confronting China.
It can be said that the situation in the Middle East today is completely unexpected by the United States. Whether it is China's successful mediation of reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or the subsequent "wave of great reconciliation", it is beyond the understanding of the United States. Moreover, China is too fast and has begun to prepare for a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
You know, the "Taiwan Strait issue" is China's core interest, while Israel is the core interest of the United States. In the eyes of the United States, China is taking advantage of the victory and has targeted its core interests, and the United States has to take some practical action to deal with China's offensive in the Middle East.
But the problem is that the overall situation in the Middle East has basically been determined, that is, Arab reconciliation and the exclusion of external forces. Before Blinken went to Saudi Arabia, he did not get the slightest benefit, and he touched a nose of ash, and the United States can only show it with military strength now. But at present, Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a Middle East naval alliance, and the US military will be kicked out of the Middle East sooner or later.
All in all, no matter how much the United States tosses now, it cannot change today's situation in the Middle East, and the general trend of US hegemony has gone.