The recent wave of gunpowder mainly comes from the United States. The Chinese side made it very clear: If the United States still wants to talk, it must first correct its attitude.
In particular, Trump has recently started to change his face again, saying that China doesn't buy soybeans for a while, and talking about waste cooking oil for a while. In the final analysis, he has no chips but insists on serving it.
China has repeatedly expressed its position, and the door to cooperation has always been open, but it must be built on the basis of mutual respect.
"If the attitude is wrong, don't talk about it"
The trade between China and the United States itself is that you come and go and need each other. but Trump recently started to play "threatening cards", on October 14 local time, he also wrote that China deliberately did not buy U.S. soybeans, and said to cut off the "eating oil trade" with China.
But the problem is that this statement is untenable, whether logically or realistically.
On October 15, the Russian satellite news agency that Liu Ping Yu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in the United States, directly criticized that the United States cannot threaten while demanding negotiations, this is a wrong attitude and must be corrected.
If the US really wants to talk, it has to let go of this threatening attitude at every turn. While shouting for dialogue, waving a big stick, this is not negotiation, this is unilateral pressure. China will not accept this practice, and it is impossible to sit down and negotiate in such an atmosphere.
In fact, this is not the first time that China has seen this kind of "negotiations haven't started yet, let's show the knife first". Every time the United States wants to gain more chips on a certain issue, it always likes to talk, build momentum and create pressure first, and then ask China to cooperate.
This old routine has long been accustomed to the Chinese side, and it has long since stopped planning to cooperate with acting.
Speaking of “waste oil”, exposure is insufficient.
Trump's choice of this point is also interesting, soybeans are not said, but also brought "eating oil" out of the talk. can be called "eating oil trade", in fact, the root is not a large amount of Chinese imported grain from the United States, but China exports to the United States a kind of waste oil, used to make fuel.
To put it bluntly, this is a raw material that the United States needs, not a product that China has to buy.
Trump's insistence on making a fuss about this field shows one thing: there are not many chips he can really get.
He did not dare to actually use soybeans, a commodity, because he would hurt his own farmers in the United States if he moved. In those areas where he really relies on China, he also knows that China will not compromise easily.
So just pick a cold-door topic, let go, the eye is attracted, and the voice is created. but this is a solution to the actual problem, no help.
From the point of view of the Chinese side, this operation can’t be a “strategy” at all, but rather a “no-trick performance.”
If you really want to cooperate, do not engage in the smoke bullets of these edge corners.
Fight and talk? This trick would have been blown a long time ago
Trump has always liked to turn negotiations into a "trade show". If you don't give in, I will increase taxes. If you don't obey, I will cut off my confession. If you don't cooperate, I will say harsh words.
This style of "extreme pressure" looks very tough, but China has long understood that it is not tough, but a single strategy and a kind of "chance negotiation".
In the past few years, the United States has tried many times to use tariffs to put pressure on China, but each time it failed to achieve the expected results. China will not give in just because you increase taxes. On the contrary, there will be corresponding countermeasures every time. The relationship between China and the United States cannot rely on the unilateral strength of one party to determine the outcome.
More importantly, the domestic economic situation in the United States does not allow them to fight like this any longer. The cost of the trade war has gradually emerged, especially for ordinary consumers, and the cost of daily living has increased significantly.
These pressures will eventually return to the U.S. government and politicians. Trump certainly knows this, so this time he only dares to make a fuss about the scraps and not dare to make a big deal easily.
But even so, he has not changed the habit of “threaten first, negotiate again.”
If you want to talk, you have to correct your attitude. If you want to fight, don't be afraid that China will fight back. But if you talk about cooperation and make threats at the same time, then there's really no need to talk about it.
To truly cooperate, we must put down the "high attitude"
The Trump team is now clear that they are hoping for a possible meeting with the US leaders at the APEC summit, and that they need to prepare some “for-negotiation codes.”
But the problem is that if these chips are all improvised or are fake moves that can be pushed down, it will backfire.
China has not closed the doors, the doors of cooperation have been open, as long as the United States is willing to dialogue in an equal attitude, even if there are more differences, the Chinese side is willing to sit down and talk.
But it must be clear that China is not a country that will be low in the face of the threat, which has been shown very clearly in the interactions between China and the United States in recent years.
Especially now that China's position in the global industrial chain is becoming more and more stable, and its international influence is also greater, it is basically impossible to rely on the past "forceful diplomacy" to get China to make concessions.
direction of relations.
The core meaning of China's statement this time is very clear: it will not refuse dialogue, but it will not accept threats. A seemingly simple sentence actually reveals the core contradiction of Sino-US relations.
Trump likes to use threats as a tool because he thinks it works, but the reality now has changed.
China has the ability, means and confidence to respond to various challenges. In this case, negotiations no longer depend on who is louder, but who is more pragmatic and sincere.
The bottom line of China has never changed, that is, equality, mutual benefit, and respect, which is a consistent principle in all the major games of the past.
As long as the other party can do this, even if the differences are big, they can talk about it; But if even the attitude is wrong, then cooperation is empty talk.
There will be a lot of consultation opportunities between China and the United States in the future, but whether these consultations will produce results is not decided by the talks themselves, but whether the U.S. is prepared, especially whether the U.S. is willing to really let go of the so-called "dominance" and look at China in a perspective.
Negotiation is not a play, honesty is the key.
The relationship between China and the United States has gone to this day, and China has always insisted that cooperation is to the two sides to work together, and negotiations need more respect for each other.If the U.S. is still viewing the dialogue as a "instrument of persecution", it will only eventually push the opportunity for cooperation further and further.
China didn't evade the problem or refuse to cooperate, but only if the other party put down its airs and put away its threats.
Otherwise, even sitting at the negotiating table is a waste of time.The key to this game is not to see who can scream slogans, but to see who can really do it pragmatically and respectfully.
China has spoken very clearly, asking for little, one thing: the attitude is correct, we can talk about things.If Trump still wants to continue to use the old way to put pressure on the limit, then China will not accompany him on this old path.
The future of Sino-U.S. relations will ultimately depend on actions and words, not on whose voices to decide the success.
The reference information:
China doesn't buy soybeans, Trump is blackmailing again: not buying crude oil - Observer Network 2025-10-15 08:34
China Embassy in the United States: The United States cannot issue threats while demanding negotiations-Russian Satellite News Agency 2025-10-15 11:20