October 16, Chinese Embassy in the United States: Ambassador Xie Feng received cultural relics returned by the United States
Maybe people don't know much about this relic, it's not an ordinary old object, it has a typical Orthodox bronze art style, it has more than two thousand years of history, is the representative of the Chinese northern grassland in the spring autumn to the war country.
Do not underestimate this jewelry, which is especially valuable for the study of our ancient grassland culture and the exchanges between different ethnic groups, helping historians to restore the scene of social life at the time.
Ambassador Xie Feng also mentioned that only by returning this cultural relic to the motherland can it truly exert its value in history, art and science, and at the same time, it will contribute to the cultural exchanges between China and the United States.
When it comes to losing cultural relics, this is a distressing topic.
There are statistics, our country is currently lost overseas artifacts at least more than 10 million pieces, only the United States has hidden more than 2 million pieces, of which the major museums publicly carried out more than 200,000 pieces, and most are bronze artifacts, porcelain, old books such as boutiques.
In contrast, this time the U.S. only returned one relics, it does seem that there are some "cup watercoach pay", many people think this sincerity is a bit insufficient.
But even so, China earnestly expressed its gratitude. After all, this is a positive signal, and it also reflects our tolerance and demeanor as a big country. More importantly, we hope to bring more overseas cultural relics home.
Interestingly, this time of return of artifacts is special.
Just nine days ago, on October 9th, our country just announced the strengthening of rare earth control measures.
This leads many to speculate that the U.S. decision to return artifacts at this time is not related to rare earth control?
After all, rare earths are crucial to many high-tech industries, especially the military industry. Our country has a world-leading advantage in rare earth mining and refining technology, and the United States cannot establish its own rare earth supply chain in the short term.
Before the tariff war broke down, the United States did not take advantage of the cheap, now the supply of rare earth is under pressure, so some think the Trump administration may want to "soften" through this way, to test the Chinese attitude, so that we can withdraw the control of rare earth.
In fact, since the introduction of the rare-earth control policy, the attitude of the Trump administration has been changing, from the false voices at the beginning, to the later call for China's "rational" negotiations, and again to this return of artifacts, people do see that they are a little panicked.
However, backwards, this “honesty” of the US side is really limited, they are not willing to make concessions in the economic and trade field, neither do they want to cancel sanctions on Chinese entities, nor are they willing to stop charging port charges on Chinese related ships, but only want to rely on a small move to return a relic to their purpose, which obviously does not speak to our idea.
The reason why our country strengthened the control of rare earths is very clear. It is because some foreign organizations and individuals transferred China's rare earths to the military field, which has harmed our national interests and international security.
But the United States does not seem to understand this, but is still lucky, thinking that with a few small moves, China can make a compromise.
In fact, if they are genuine, they should take practical action, such as combating rare earth smuggling and prohibiting the use of rare earth obtained from China for military work, which is the key to solving the problem.
In addition to rare earth, the U.S. has another urgent thing waiting for China to help, which is soybean orders.
It is now the harvest season of U.S. soybeans, the bean farmers are selling everywhere but have no effect, if Trump no longer takes effective measures, it is likely to lose the support of the agricultural state.
And our country has been purchasing soybeans from Brazil and Argentina for this period, etc. To meet domestic import demand, the U.S. soybeans want to sell to us again, we have to wait next year.
Fortunately, China and the United States may hold a meeting at the end of this month. This is an opportunity for Trump. If he really wants to negotiate a soybean order, he must show enough sincerity to meet China's legitimate concerns.
In fact, in the matter of shipping charges, for example, as long as the United States stops charging ships made or operated by China, we can also cancel the charges accordingly, which is fully in line with the principle of reciprocity.
In the end, the U.S. side and its relationship with the way of returning a relics such as "putting a stone asking", rather than actively correct the wrong policy on economic and trade issues, so that we can truly promote the development of Sino-U.S. relations in a good direction.
Ambassador Xie Feng's acceptance of the tiger-shaped ornament returned by the United States is indeed a good thing in the cultural exchanges between China and the United States, and it also brings a positive signal to bilateral relations.
But to resolve the core differences between the two countries, it is not enough to return one cultural relic.
It is hoped that the US side will be able to clearly recognize the situation, express genuine sincerity, and go with China on key issues such as rare earth and economic trade, so that we can mutual benefit and win-win.
After all, for China and the United States, cooperation is the only correct choice, and a zero-sum game will only end up losing both sides.
Maybe people don't know much about this relic, it's not an ordinary old object, it has a typical Orthodox bronze art style, it has more than two thousand years of history, is the representative of the Chinese northern grassland in the spring autumn to the war country.
Do not underestimate this jewelry, which is especially valuable for the study of our ancient grassland culture and the exchanges between different ethnic groups, helping historians to restore the scene of social life at the time.
Ambassador Xie Feng also mentioned that only by returning this cultural relic to the motherland can it truly exert its value in history, art and science, and at the same time, it will contribute to the cultural exchanges between China and the United States.
When it comes to losing cultural relics, this is a distressing topic.
There are statistics, our country is currently lost overseas artifacts at least more than 10 million pieces, only the United States has hidden more than 2 million pieces, of which the major museums publicly carried out more than 200,000 pieces, and most are bronze artifacts, porcelain, old books such as boutiques.
In contrast, this time the U.S. only returned one relics, it does seem that there are some "cup watercoach pay", many people think this sincerity is a bit insufficient.
But even so, China earnestly expressed its gratitude. After all, this is a positive signal, and it also reflects our tolerance and demeanor as a big country. More importantly, we hope to bring more overseas cultural relics home.
Interestingly, this time of return of artifacts is special.
Just nine days ago, on October 9th, our country just announced the strengthening of rare earth control measures.
This leads many to speculate that the U.S. decision to return artifacts at this time is not related to rare earth control?
After all, rare earths are crucial to many high-tech industries, especially the military industry. Our country has a world-leading advantage in rare earth mining and refining technology, and the United States cannot establish its own rare earth supply chain in the short term.
Before the tariff war broke down, the United States did not take advantage of the cheap, now the supply of rare earth is under pressure, so some think the Trump administration may want to "soften" through this way, to test the Chinese attitude, so that we can withdraw the control of rare earth.
In fact, since the introduction of the rare-earth control policy, the attitude of the Trump administration has been changing, from the false voices at the beginning, to the later call for China's "rational" negotiations, and again to this return of artifacts, people do see that they are a little panicked.
However, backwards, this “honesty” of the US side is really limited, they are not willing to make concessions in the economic and trade field, neither do they want to cancel sanctions on Chinese entities, nor are they willing to stop charging port charges on Chinese related ships, but only want to rely on a small move to return a relic to their purpose, which obviously does not speak to our idea.
The reason why our country strengthened the control of rare earths is very clear. It is because some foreign organizations and individuals transferred China's rare earths to the military field, which has harmed our national interests and international security.
But the United States does not seem to understand this, but is still lucky, thinking that with a few small moves, China can make a compromise.
In fact, if they are genuine, they should take practical action, such as combating rare earth smuggling and prohibiting the use of rare earth obtained from China for military work, which is the key to solving the problem.
In addition to rare earth, the U.S. has another urgent thing waiting for China to help, which is soybean orders.
It is now the harvest season of U.S. soybeans, the bean farmers are selling everywhere but have no effect, if Trump no longer takes effective measures, it is likely to lose the support of the agricultural state.
And our country has been purchasing soybeans from Brazil and Argentina for this period, etc. To meet domestic import demand, the U.S. soybeans want to sell to us again, we have to wait next year.
Fortunately, China and the United States may hold a meeting at the end of this month. This is an opportunity for Trump. If he really wants to negotiate a soybean order, he must show enough sincerity to meet China's legitimate concerns.
In fact, in the matter of shipping charges, for example, as long as the United States stops charging ships made or operated by China, we can also cancel the charges accordingly, which is fully in line with the principle of reciprocity.
In the end, the U.S. side and its relationship with the way of returning a relics such as "putting a stone asking", rather than actively correct the wrong policy on economic and trade issues, so that we can truly promote the development of Sino-U.S. relations in a good direction.
Ambassador Xie Feng's acceptance of the tiger-shaped ornament returned by the United States is indeed a good thing in the cultural exchanges between China and the United States, and it also brings a positive signal to bilateral relations.
But to resolve the core differences between the two countries, it is not enough to return one cultural relic.
It is hoped that the US side will be able to clearly recognize the situation, express genuine sincerity, and go with China on key issues such as rare earth and economic trade, so that we can mutual benefit and win-win.
After all, for China and the United States, cooperation is the only correct choice, and a zero-sum game will only end up losing both sides.