On October 1, the Chinese people were happy to celebrate the National Day, and it was at this time that the U.S. government wanted to "shut the doors".
A few hours ago, the White House officially confirmed that the Trump administration was officially suspended after 23:59 local time on September 30 due to the Senate's failure to approve the government budget. It is really hard to estimate how much impact this will have on the United States.
However, these things have little to do with us. What really caught our attention was that we received a special blessing from U.S. Secretary of State Rubio. On September 30 local time, Rubio officially issued a statement to China, wishing the China people a happy National Day.
White House shutdown: Blessings run faster than budget
On the street hanging red lamp cages, home households or the whole family go out to eat delicious, or watch the TV to watch the National Day related programs, some places also engaged in small celebrations, even children in their hands carrying a small national flag, that part of the celebration is not mentioned.
But you know what? On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the United States is in chaos like a pot of porridge. There is no festive atmosphere at all, but it is full of anxiety.
Just as we celebrated the National Day, the White House suddenly sent a message, saying that because the Senate and the Republicans and Democrats quarreled, the government’s budget was not approved – to say the government had no money to spend, until the local time on September 30 at midnight at 11:59 a.m., the Trump administration was directly “stop”.
This "stop" is not a small thing, what do you mean? is that many departments in the government can not work normally, employees either have no salary leave, or have to work hard and still can not get the money.
You don't even know how hard the two parties are fighting! The Democratic Party scolded the Republican Party for patronizing against them, regardless of the lives of ordinary people at all, saying that the Republican Party deliberately stuck the budget, just to shut down the government to engage in political chips;
On the other hand, the Republican Party didn't show weakness. The Democratic Party said that they spent all their money on the medical insurance of illegal immigrants. They didn't have enough money to begin with, and they still made it so blind. Why should they approve the budget? Even Vice President Vance was involved. In the end, he really couldn't do anything about it. He directly said, "We must close the door this time." His tone was full of helplessness.
The worst of this shutdown is the employees of the US government. Hundreds of thousands of people who work in the federal government originally pointed to their monthly salary to pay off their mortgages and car loans, pay their children's tuition fees and buy milk powder. As a result, they were suddenly informed to take unpaid vacation. Do you think they can be in a hurry?
The Ministry of Labour has been in a hurry, saying that the employment data, inflation data, which was supposed to be published, is now in full shell, enterprises want to refer to these data to make decisions have no way to find; the Ministry of Commerce has a headache, saying that trade negotiations with other countries must be suspended, because no one has the right to sign.
The most amazing thing is that the White House actually secretly changed its emergency plan and even let out the word that it would directly and permanently fire those "unnecessary" employees. Think about it, 300,000 people have been forced to resign from government departments for various reasons this year. How many people will lose their jobs?
Just when the United States was in chaos, with employees 'wages not even available and departments' work was not organized, something interesting suddenly came out: U.S. Secretary of State Rubio actually issued a statement on September 30, saying,"On behalf of the United States of America, I wish the China people a happy National Day" and also made some polite words like "I wish you all health, prosperity and peace."
America's own budget case has to die, even the livelihoods of its own employees have no specs, to China's blessing is more positive than anything, running faster than rabbits, not knowing that they still think that they value our National Day.
From "hard with China" to blessing: Rubio's attitude has become too fast
To say that Rubio can say this, it was really the sun hit the west — you know how close this guy was to us before? in politics for so many years, he has been a famous "hard fool" in this matter, with us doing as if it was his job.
In January 2025, when he first became Secretary of State, he intensified his confirmation hearing. In response to questions from lawmakers, he directly said that China is "the most powerful and dangerous opponent." He also said that it must suppress us militarily and economically and must not allow us to "affect the status of the United States."
At that time, many media reported that after Rubio came to power, Sino-US relations might become more tense because his attitude was too obvious and he wanted to fight with us.
In his first month in office, he took the initiative to call the China foreign minister. I was thinking at that time, was his attitude going to soften? As a result, I later read the report and realized that there was not a soft word on the phone. It kept saying "Opposing changing the status quo in Taiwan" over and over again. It did not mention anything about wanting to cooperate well with us, and there was no hint of courtesy at all. If you say this phone call, it's better not to make it, it's a waste of time.
But who could think, it was only after the great half of the year, this master who has always been "fighting" with China, has initially blessed us the National Day?
More interestingly, Rubio is now not only a secretary of state, but also an agent director of the International Development Agency and the National Archives Administration – the U.S. media mocked him as “a minister who cares about everything”, saying that he was busy day and night, the office is a few steps away from Trump’s elliptical office, Trump shouted at him, not even the ability to drink his mouth.
But at a time when the government was shutting down, there was a shortage of people to work everywhere, and there was a lot of things waiting for him to deal with, he still found time to issue a special statement to send blessings to China? The thoughts in this can be easily understood by discerning people at a glance. If we really value our National Day so much, why didn't we send it before? It was obvious that he had other thoughts when his country was in chaos.
At the same time, taking the sanctions to beat people, while laughing and blessing: China has already seen his calculator.
How sincere is Rubio's blessing? I'm telling you, I guess even the Americans themselves don't believe it-why? Because their hands on sanctions against China have never stopped at all. While sending blessings with a smile, they are still holding a big stick in their hands ready to hit us. How can there be such a thing to take advantage of both ends?
Just at the end of September, a few days after he sent his blessings, the U.S. Department of Commerce had just introduced a new rule called "automatic sanctions for subsidiaries." What does that mean? Let me talk to you, that is, as long as the parent company of a China company is included in the "restricted list" of the United States, the subsidiaries of the parent company that hold more than 50% of the shares will be directly unlucky and will be included in the scope of sanctions and will not be allowed to do business with American companies without additional approval from the U.S. government.
This is good. Thousands of Chinese companies will be affected. Many companies had cooperated well with American suppliers, but they were suddenly cut off and orders could not be completed.
Bloomberg said at the time, this rule is coming to China, the purpose is to block our way to technology. you think, now many fields need advanced technology, the United States is afraid of our technology development too fast, so do this set, want to make us technologically depend on them, so they can get stuck in our neck.
Do you think this is irritating? While smashing us with a big stick of sanctions, breaking our cooperation and blocking our technology, he also asked the Secretary of State to send National Day blessings with a smile and say some nice words. Isn't this playing us as fools?
China's Ministry of Commerce has long challenged the word, saying that this is "taking national security as a pretext, engaging in the hegemony of its own account", not only to dig our Chinese enterprises, but also to disturb the global production chain - after all, many Chinese enterprises with the enterprises of other countries also cooperate, the United States is doing this, the enterprises of other countries must also be involved.
Rubio jumped out to send blessings at this time. To put it bluntly, no one in the United States or abroad could do anything about it before he came up with this move.
On the domestic side, the budget quarrels can not be negotiated, the government stagnation is delayed, the people's days can not go by, the economy has to go downwards - after all, the government stagnation will affect consumption, affect investment, many industries are hit;
Internationally, we want to rely on technological blockade to choke us, but in the end, we are forcing us to speed up our own innovation. Now we have our own technologies in many fields, such as chips and new energy, but their methods have long been ineffective.
So, he sends this blessing is nothing more than wanting to ease the relationship with a flattering word, or hoping that China will relax on other things, such as making concessions in trade, or standing on their side in international matters.
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