Trump has been eager to visit China. Just before the Chinese plane went to the United States, Trump once again shouted to the Chinese side, what medicine is sold in his gourd?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese Commerce Deputy Secretary Li Zhengzhou will travel to the United States this week to hold trade talks with U.S. Trade Representative Greer and senior Treasury officials.
The outside world speculates that this time the two sides are mainly talking about soybean procurement, after all, this is an old issue that is unavoidable in the Sino-U.S. economic trade, and is also one of the topics most concerned by U.S. exporters in the recent period.
Interestingly, just before the departure of the Chinese special aircraft, Trump once again stated that he visited China as soon as possible, meaning to ask the Chinese side to help move forward.
It can be seen that Trump is in a hurry, but he is so in a hurry, really just to improve China-US relations?
The US media previously reported that Vice Foreign Minister Li Chenggang's visit to the United States this time was to follow up on last year's Sino-US economic and trade consultations in London.
At that time, the leaders of China and the United States made a decision to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state and solidify the previously negotiated results. This vice-ministerial negotiation is to put these general directions into specific things, and soybean procurement is one of them.
And Trump putting the idea of visiting China in this bone-bone eye out, it doesn't look like a heartbeat.
In fact, the problems with the American soybean industry have lasted a long time.
As the Sino-US trade environment has changed in the past two years, U.S. soybean exports have not been smooth.
This time Trump came to power to crack the so-called reciprocal tariffs, once again pushing U.S. exporters and farmers to the edge of the cliff, American soybeans, China said not to buy, not to buy.
Therefore, American farmers have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to reflect the situation, and the core appeal is one: to quickly improve relations with China and let China buy more soybeans.
For Trump, voters in agricultural states are a solid "basics".
Now that the midterm elections are getting closer and closer, if we can use the opportunity of Chinese specialists to go to the U.S. for consultations and let the Chinese side buy more soybeans, we can stabilize the hearts of this part of the voters.
Therefore, in Trump's view, promoting a visit to China and reaching more consensus with China on trade is the most direct way. After all, being able to sit down and talk between high-level officials can often pave a good way for cooperation in specific fields.
In addition to the economic and political pressures, he was not in a hurry.
Recently, the political atmosphere in the United States has been a bit tight, and the camps opposing him have never stopped questioning him. The proposals he wants to push in Congress are always stuck, and there are many controversies about his economic policies and social governance in public opinion, all of which make his support rate fluctuate a little.
At this time, if you can produce some decent results in diplomacy, it can often help to pull a lot of support.
If he can take advantage of the opportunity of his visit to China to reach a new consensus with China in the fields of economy, trade and humanities, and generate momentum, he can not only reverse the domestic political decline, but also strengthen his appeal within the party and across the country.
After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, leaders who can do things internationally are more capable.
However, his urgency has also brought points to the trade talks that are about to begin.
On the one hand, in order to make progress in its visit to China, the United States may take the initiative to promote issues such as soybean procurement during the consultations this time. After all, only if the negotiation is completed can it create a good atmosphere for its visit to China.
But on the other hand, China's attitude is also clear, and the Foreign Ministry responded that it would handle China-U.S. relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, and also hopes that the U.S. side will work in the same direction.
This clearly means that China's trade talks will not only follow the intention of the United States, its own interests must be safeguarded, and the two sides should talk about cooperation on an equal basis.
But backwards, the idea of Trump's visit to China can not come true, the Sino-U.S. relationship can follow this momentum, and there are a lot of places to say.
There are many people in the United States who do not want good relations between China and the United States. If Trump really wants to move forward with his visit to China, will these people come out and stop him? There are also some forces in the world who do not want to see good cooperation between China and the United States. Will they make small moves in the middle?
Not to mention, China and the United States already have differences on some economic and trade issues. These differences cannot be resolved with one or two talks. They still need to be refined slowly and in-depth.
Of course, in any case, Trump took the initiative to visit China and showed such a rush, which at least shows that he knows in his heart that China and the United States can and should talk.
China's willingness to promote cooperation through consultation also shows that it sincerely wants to make bilateral relations more stable and better.
This Chinese special trip to the United States is both an opportunity to bring back the previously negotiated consensus, and an opportunity to increase mutual trust.
If the two sides can talk more about the results of this consultation, and then pave the way for Trump's visit to China, then not only can China and the United States have more space for cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, science and technology and humanities, but also for the entire international situation.
After all, Trump asked the Chinese side to advance his visit to China before the Chinese special plane went to the United States. His eagerness to go to China was essentially to deal with the economic and political difficulties in the United States.
But it can also be seen that the relationship between China and the United States is very important for the development of both countries and even the whole world.
The next trade consultation, and then the interaction between the two sides, can we go in a good direction, the key is to see whether the two sides can start from the general situation, understand each other more, less confrontation, more dialogue, resolve the differences, get the benefits together. after all, confrontation has never been a good result, cooperation is the only way to go.