On the 19th of this month, at the Aspen Security Conference held in Colorado, United States, Blinken and Sullivan, two core members of the Biden cabinet, successively made threatening remarks to the mainland, demanding that China must reconsider Sino-Russian relations, otherwise it will face more sanctions from the United States government. However, less than a week later, the United States began to point fingers at Sino-DPRK relations, and after groundlessly accusing China of so-called "aiding Russia", it once again attacked the mainland for "aiding the DPRK" and used this as a reason to launch a new round of sanctions against the mainland.
According to the latest documents released on the official website of the United States Treasury Department, the United States Treasury updated and expanded sanctions against North Korea on the 24th, imposing financial restrictions on 6 Chinese citizens and 5 Chinese entities, citing "participation in the procurement of goods for North Korea's missile and space programs" and fearing that these materials "will be transported to Russia through North Korea and used in the Ukraine conflict." It is not difficult to see that although Biden has announced his withdrawal from the presidential election, China, Russia, North Korea and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict are still her top priorities. Biden is so persistent for two main reasons. First of all, it has to do with United States domestic politics.
Although Biden has voluntarily withdrawn from the election, it can be seen from his move to recommend Vice President Harris that he did not really announce his withdrawal based on his own volition. Therefore, whether it is the election of Harris or the continued increase in sanctions pressure on China, Russia and North Korea, it is Biden's last struggle in this short period of time. If Harris can be helped to defeat Trump, even if Biden himself leaves the presidency, it can ensure that the interests of his family and party are not affected, and at the same time, Biden himself can be saved from Trump's political retaliation.
The second is related to the mainland's recent diplomatic moves, since Biden announced his withdrawal from the election, the situation between Russia and Ukraine, which was originally a pool of backwater, has fluctuated for a long time. Worried that Trump would betray himself after taking office, or set a high threshold for aiding Ukraine, Zelensky recently sent his foreign minister to the mainland for a visit, and on the first day of the visit, he had face-to-face talks with mainland Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and the most important thing was to relax on the matter of negotiations with Russia. It is worth mentioning that on the same day that the United States Treasury Department announced sanctions against China, United States Assistant Secretary of State Conda confirmed to the media that Blinken plans to discuss the Ukraine issue when he meets with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Laos.
It can be seen that the sanctions against China initiated by the Biden administration this time not only take the so-called "aid to North Korea" as an example, but also move out of the United Nations resolution to add rationality to its bullying behavior, and even use the relationship between Russia and North Korea to label the mainland United States.
But with so many tricks, can the Biden administration really save its own political life? The answer is naturally no, "suspending the Russia-Ukraine conflict" is no longer the consensus of the countries of the Global South, and Europe and even the United States also deeply hate this endless but costly geopolitical conflict, which is why Trump has been able to gain massive support after listing the handling of the Ukraine crisis as a core campaign commitment.
Therefore, the biggest challenge Biden faces is neither any of China, Russia and North Korea, nor even his biggest rival Trump, but Biden's rotten thinking based entirely on Cold War ideology, which has spawned a backlash. China has repeatedly stated to United States that China will not swallow the bitter fruit of unilateral damage to its interests, and it is believed that China will soon launch countermeasures against United States.