After cutting down the Central European line, Poland still refused to release the line? in this, the Chinese side opened the door to the mountain, directly provoking the two consequences.
Recently, Poland suddenly announced the closure of the border ports with Belarus, on the grounds that a Russian-made drone had previously been shot down, and said that national security was seriously threatened. But this move immediately caused the China-European line to stagnate, almost hundreds of trains, tens of thousands of labeled goods were blocked at the border, including a large number of Chinese electronics, mechanical equipment and even new energy vehicle parts.
Of course, China cannot sit idly by. On September 15th, Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid an emergency visit to Poland, held a three-hour closed-door meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski, and even had a separate exchange with Polish President navrotsky. However, although the outside world saw Poland's smiling faces and thorough etiquette in this meeting, there was a lot of calculation under the table. Poland refused to reopen the border immediately, and even brought the topic to Russia in the conversation, suggesting that China should use its relations with Russia to put pressure on Putin. This operation completely exposed Poland's small abacus.
The first is to show loyalty to the United States and NATO to demonstrate its role as an "eastern flank outpost". The second is to force China to take measures to indirectly put pressure on Russia. The deeper calculation is economic bargaining chips. While calling for a blockade, Poland also demanded to relax the entry of Polish agricultural products into China, support it in building an electric vehicle industry chain, and even hope to obtain an export license for China's rare earth items. The abacus can be said to be quite loud.
But the problem is that the purpose of Poland is not necessarily to be achieved. Poland blocked the Central European line, it seems to have made China and Europe both hard, in fact the first injured is themselves. The small town of Malacevic in eastern Poland, these years just by the transit of the Central European line to become the European logistics hub, created a lot of jobs and profits. Now the border, the local warehouse is full of cargo, truck drivers are unemployed, the port operations are stuck. If China shifted to accelerate the alternative of the southern line, the cross-Caledonian corridor and even the Arctic route, Poland's "European gateway" status is sooner or later weakened, and at the time to want to regain the opportunity, it would only be harder
Moreover, Poland's so-called security barrier is actually unreliable. Russian and Belarusian army exercises on the border, high-speed hypersonic missiles and medium-range missiles have been demonstrated, and once the situation is out of control, Poland can not escape the risk of being crucified in the eastern wing of NATO. In other words, this card in the hands of Poland, not only can not exchange for real security, but may also put itself deeper in the geographic seam.
For this reason, Foreign Minister Wang Yi's response is particularly weighty. First of all, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, "Adhere to mutual respect and take care of each other's core interests". This sentence seems ordinary, but when the China-Europe train is cut off, it is a warning to Poland: don't play the lifeline of China's economy. Railway freight is not only related to trade figures, but also affects the supply chain stability of thousands of Chinese enterprises and the European market, which is China's core interest. Secondly, Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed that "I hope Poland will proceed from the fundamental long-term interests of Europe and promote a peaceful solution to the crisis". The meaning is equally clear. Don't blindly act as the frontier of geopolitics. If the blockade continues, it will only hurt Europe itself.
From the perspective of China, this wave also brings a warning. The lesson of the cut off China-European line shows that overseas channels can not only beined by friendship, but must have strength. Without security-guaranteed economic cooperation is broken. In the future, China must accelerate the diversification layout, promote alternative routes such as the southern line, cross-Caspian corridors, and avoid excessive reliance on the single-way path.
In general, Poland's cut off the Central European line, on the surface is a fierce reaction to the Russian military drone crossing the border, but actually exposed the interests of the Polish government. and the foreign minister's response, illuminated the future direction, that is, the red line between the country and the country must not be touched, only cooperation is the long-term way.