The recent decision by the US not to send its diplomatic representatives to China for the 2022 Winter Olympics, as a measure of protest to the country’s alleged human rights violations, especially in the Muslim-majority region from Xinjiang, increased the levels of tension that have been growing between the two powers in recent months.
In the last year and a half, Both nations have lived through the most conflictive moments in almost 50 years of relations, and it is not foreseen that they will improve radically since Biden’s policy for China is not very different from that of former President Donald Trump with tensions and diplomatic, geopolitical, nuclear, military disagreements and even the origin of COVID- 19.
After the latest move, China called it a “diplomatic boycott” and said the US “will pay the price.”
China’s diplomatic spokesman, Zhao Lijian, accused the United States of violating the principle of political neutrality in sport. The event will take place from February 4 to 20, 2022.
“The attempt by the United States to interfere in the Winter Olympics due to its ideological bias, based on lies and rumors, only highlights its harmful intentions,” said Zhao and He once again called Western accusations about the situation in Xinjiang a “lie of the century”.
The Russian Government also reacted to the US decision and considered that the sporting event “should be free of politics,” it records. Eph.
For its part, In the US, the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, justified the decision of the Joe Biden government.
The official alleged that, if the delegation attends, “the US diplomatic representation would treat these Games as if nothing had happened, despite the flagrant violations of human rights and the atrocities of China in Xinjiang.” and that they just can’t do that. ” He clarified that the athletes will attend and that they have full support.
Various human rights organizations They accuse the government of President Xi Jinping of having interned at least one million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in “re-education camps.”
The Chinese authorities systematically denounce the “interference” of Westerners, claiming that they are “vocational training centers” to support employment and combat religious extremism. The country.
Defending the autonomy of Taiwan is another point with which the US pressures the Asian giant and analysts describe it as the potential catalyst.
China claims its sovereignty, amid the rejection of the island’s people who want to preserve its prosperous economy and democratic politics. While the Americans are its main exporter of weapons.
The tension is that Chinese airmen frequently conduct sorties around Taiwanese airspace and in which small US military groups train local soldiers for more than a year, in addition to having ships sailing regularly, it collects France 24.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has warned China that it will take all possible actions, both dissuasive and diplomatic, to ensure that it does not annex Taiwan by force.
Democrats and Republicans have agreed that China is now the greatest threat to national security facing the United States for aiming to supplant the country as the world’s leading power, something on which different experts agree.
The international analyst Oswaldo Moreno agrees that “US meddling and actions, especially with Taiwan” is one of the most critical points in the fragmented relationship.
It states that the US problem with China, in addition to military and geopolitical, is commercial.
“We see the case of Russia, which is a military competitor, but it is not a commercial or economic one, which China is. The US is getting closer to losing its dominance, its hegemony as the only power, and in the face of this fall in power, the Chinese have become the direct competitor in this field, ”he points out.
Moreno believes that, in the not so distant future, China will manage to be the counterweight to the United States, as the Soviet Union once was, and stresses that the support it receives from Russia has allowed it to form a bloc in the East. .
Michel Leví, international analyst and coordinator of the Andean Center for International Studies of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, also finds a similarity between the current tensions between the two countries with the tensions that once existed with the USSR and he says Russia can also enter the fray alongside China and the US for world leadership.
Whether these tensions lead to stronger conflicts or sanctions would quickly impact the world economy. By the South China Sea annually, between one-fifth and one-third of the world’s maritime trade, including 30% of all oil trade.
And if there are military consequences, they would also be catastrophic.
Leví says that before they did not talk about the Chinese Armed Forces and their military response capacity, because they were not a problem, but that this scenario has changed remarkably.
“China now has a great capacity and military power with which I could challenge any other power anywhere, it has a mobilization capacity and others,” he says.
In the case of the United States, he refers that reaching these types of situations is complicated because the military efforts imply large financial expenses and that is one of the main reasons why the country withdrew from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Moreno, for his part, states that “a military contest would be the total destruction, both of the Western powers and those of the Far East.
“I do not think that a military exit is the way … and economically … China I do not think that it is seeking in any way to lose that space that they are gaining economically in the world, the US must rethink what is happening and give in” , he underlines.
Russia wants NATO not to expand in Ukraine, a commitment that the US has not fulfilled, highlights Moreno and says that China seeks non-intervention in internal affairs.
On the subject of Taiwan, he considers that that territory, sooner or later, will return to the dominance of China, something similar to what happened with Hong Kong, which will return in 2047, and that left a bad precedent for those regions that request the model of one country, two systems. (I)
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