There are only four days left before China's 93 military parade. On the one hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China ahead of schedule with an "unprecedented" delegation. When he got off the plane, he docked the Shanghai Summit and the military parade non-stop.
On the other hand, Trump, who had always shouted "going to China to see the big scene" before, was completely silent this time. Even the top officials of the White House collectively kept silent about the military parade.
Let's talk about the "guest lineup" of this military parade. Putin's visit to China this time is not a simple "formality".
According to public information, he brought with him a delegation of both high-ranking government officials, as well as heads of enterprises in the field of energy and science and technology, and just landed a number of cooperation intentions with China, including the joint construction of rare-earth processing bases.
You know, Russia's rare earth reserves are not small, but smelting technology has always been a shortcoming. This cooperation with China is equivalent to making up for a key link in the industrial chain. The meaning of mutual benefit and win-win results for both parties is obvious.
There is also Belarusian President Lukashenko, who directly said after coming to China this time that "Belarus will never betray China", which is not empty words.
His son is studying engineering at a top university in China, and even his family is placed in China.
Lukashenko also mentioned that Belarus and China's cooperation in the fields of agriculture and machinery manufacturing has landed a number of projects, this time in addition to participating in the parade, it is necessary to talk with Chinese enterprises about new cooperation programs, and agree on the "practical" style.
On the other hand, the United States is particularly "deserted".
Previously, Trump has repeatedly said in public "I want to go to China to participate in important events and feel the big scene", and as a result of this 93th parade such a big thing, he not only did not come, not even a public statement.
More interestingly, the United States, from the president to the vice president, the secretary of state, and then to the finance minister, in the last half of the month, no one has mentioned the Chinese parade.
Sullivan, a former White House national security adviser who has not spoken for a long time, also criticized Trump, accusing the latter of pushing allies such as India towards China and forcing many allies to stay away from the United States, which has left China only to sit and watch the show.
The Pew Research Center’s 2024 Global Opinion Survey found that in 38 countries, only 19% of respondents considered the United States a “reliable partner,” while 41% believed China was a reliable partner.
In Africa, China's favorable opinion rating is as high as 68%, compared with 35% in the United States.
Behind these data is actually the choice of countries' diplomatic concepts between China and the United States. China's "Belt and Road Initiative" is a real infrastructure cooperation.
For example, the Yavan high-speed railway in Indonesia has been fully operational in April 2024, and the Hanoi-Hai Defense Highway in Vietnam is also built by Chinese companies, which projects can directly drive local economic development.
In the United States, there is a lot of trouble.
In the first quarter of 2024, the U.S. GDP grew by 1.6%, below the expected 2.2%, the inflation rate alsoined at 3.8%, above the Fed's 2% target, and US household debt reached $17.5 trillion, a record high.
The public's satisfaction with the government's economic policies is only 32%. Politically, the two parties are still fighting each other. Such internal friction has left the United States with no energy to deal with international challenges.
U.S. Major Patrick Smith previously wrote that China is now “feeding and accumulating”, while the United States is “blindly fatigued” in the world – deeply involved in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, spread across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, spending a lot of military expenses, but did not get any effect.
Although the U.S. military spending budget in 2024 is $886 billion, but China has spent $75 billion to help Russia, there is no way but to shrink the global military deployment, the U.S. troops in Europe are reduced from 100,000 to 85,000, and the Middle East has also withdrawn some of its troops from Syria and Iraq.
In contrast, although China's 93 military parade displayed many advanced equipment, such as the "Dongfeng- 41" intercontinental missile that can cover the world, and the "J- 35" stealth fighter jet that made its public debut, China has always emphasized that national defense construction is to safeguard national sovereignty and world peace, not to "show off muscles."
After the military parade, China also held the "Global Security Initiative Forum", which was attended by representatives from 28 countries including Russia, Belarus, India, and Indonesia. Together, they reached the "Global Security Cooperation Action Plan". Multilateral cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism, cyber security, and food security is the correct way to solve global problems.
There are only four days left from the 1993 parade, which is not only a demonstration of China's national defense power, but also a mirror that reflects the changes in the global pattern.
On the international stage of the future, only respect for the sovereignty of all countries and equal cooperation can common development.
China will continue to follow the path of peaceful development, cooperate with more countries in the fields of rare earths, infrastructure, science and technology, and contribute to building a fairer and more reasonable international order.
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