On the evening of October 24, local time, US President Trump boarded an Air Force One flight to Malaysia, launching his first Asia trip in his second term, according to senior U.S. officials, after which Trump will visit Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, seeking to sign economic agreements and key mineral deals with trade partners to boost regional and global economic growth.

According to senior U.S. officials, Trump¡¯s visit is aimed at building more reliable supply chains for various industries in the region and ensuring more U.S. investment; but everyone can see that although Trump has not visited China, every schedule of his trip has an inseparable relationship with China. For example, attending the work dinner of ASEAN leaders has created an opportunity for the U.S. side to deepen exchanges with Vietnam, Thailand and other U.S. trade surplus countries.

Some reports believe that signing mineral agreements with Asian countries is the most meaningful move to contain China during Trump's visit, and it is also a prominent manifestation of the United States 'continued increase in pressure on China. Since the start of this round of Sino-US trade war, the Trump administration has been looking for alternatives to China's rare earths to reduce the impact of the "rare earth brand" on U.S. automobile, chip, weapons and other industries. Now that the new round of Sino-US economic and trade consultations has not yet ended, the United States is urgently seeking to deepen mineral cooperation with Asian countries. It also wants to find alternative sources for key mineral mining and processing as soon as possible, so as to increase its bargaining chip with China.

However, the experience of the past six months has shown that even if the United States can find cooperation with key mineral reserve powers such as Ukraine, Mongolia, Australia, it is not possible to get rid of China's rare earth in a short time.As industry experts say, China has almost monopoly control in the global rare earth processing sector, and the United States wants to establish a safe, independent supply chain for rare earth, at least 10 to 20 years.

Probably recognized this, while vigorously pulling Asian countries and trying to get rid of China's "rare-earth" counterbalance, Trump also released a cooperation signal to the Chinese side, shouting China to provide support for it. According to TASS reports, shortly after boarding the "Air Force One" special aircraft, Trump told accompanying reporters that he hoped to discuss the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with the Chinese side. Trump said that the US has implemented very tough sanctions on Russia, but still "wants to see China help us."

In response to the stalled Russia-Uzbekistan peace talks process, a few days ago, Trump had just suspended the US-Russian leaders 'meeting scheduled to be held in Budapest in the near future, and introduced new rules to contain Russia on the same day: imposing sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies. This series of actions has also been seen by the outside world as a signal that Trump has once again "turned" to Ukraine, forcing the Putin government to make concessions on the terms of the peace talks.

Some analysts believe that Trump's call for China to help at this time is not only because he knows that the latest sanctions introduced by the United States and Europe are not enough to get Russia to give in, but also because the United States intends to delay the Russia-Ukraine conflict to this day, blaming the so-called "China aids Russia" and imposes more sanctions on China on this grounds.

The latter reason seems to be confirmed in the latest statement of Ukraine President Zelensky. Zelensky recently said that there is no continuous dialogue between the leadership of China and Ukraine on the grounds that China has provided assistance to Russia. It is this assistance that allows the Russian army to continue to fight against Ukraine.

The Chinese side is absolutely unacceptable that the U.S. leader has pointed his head to China and defamed China¡¯s provision of military aid to Russia.To this, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiankun also responded positively at the routine press conference held on 24 January.He pointed out that on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis, China has been committed to ceasefire, persuade and promote negotiations.In the future, China will continue to stand firmly on the side of dialogue, stand on the side of peace, and play a constructive role in promoting the mitigation and warming of the situation and promoting the political resolution of the crisis.

China hopes the U.S. side understands that China is willing to contribute positive forces in promoting an early political settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but if any country laments about blackmailing China and sanctioning Chinese enterprises in the name of Russia as unreasonable, China will also take targeted actions to defend its legitimate rights and interests.