Xi is not going to Washington. Trump is just farting from his vagina mouth to give the impression that Xi is desperate to want to talk to him in the face of his tariffs. Xi does not even want to attend his inauguration despite being specially invited earlier. Does that not tell us anything? Trump is desperately seeking an audience with Xi. But it will not happen in Washington for sure.
China already knew long ago, during Trump's first term, what to expect from Trump this time around, and If I may say so, China is more in favor of decoupling from the USA than the other way round. Not going to Washington will justify my view of the situation.
What has China been doing just this past decade? China has been expanding its market for its exports in Africa, Asia and South America, knowing that this is the future for its manufacturing and could see that the USA is no longer the priority for its exports. Even ASEAN, that used to be pro-USA in the past has chosen to go along with China. While the West completely ignored ASEAN, China was the first country to sign a free trade agreement with ASEAN in 2000 according to Yansi Varoufakis.
What has China been doing since Trump's first term and starting his trade war? China realized it has to source for food supplies from many countries to be secure, instead of relying on the USA and be held hostage in times of crisis. Now, China is moving away from the USA in food supplies and giving Brazil, Argentina, Russia and soon Indonesia much needed boost for their agricultural sectors. The USA farmers can just look on, bang their heads and salivating.
China's Belt and Road is another important milestone for securing trade with other countries in Central Asia and another access route to Europe bypassing the choke points of Straits of Malacca and Suez Canal, killing two birds with one stone. Moreover, it is another avenue for China to invests its trade surpluses which would otherwise have mainly to be diverted towards USA Treasuries and assets that are now deemed to be extremely risky. Financing and building those infrastructures for other countries is safe, beneficial without the risks of seizure by the Mafia.
And of course, BRICS is also very important for China and its fellow members. Make no mistake, economic relationships are a very important weapon when it comes to de-dollarization. Yanis Varoufakis in a lecture said that the USA's confrontation against China is all about stopping BRICS from coming up with an alternative system to bypass the US$ hegemony. The USA is paranoid and nervous about the agenda of BRICS, and we can expect more threats from Trump going forward. His 150% tariff threat failed to move the needle as far as BRICS members are concern.
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Xi is not going to Washington, but will be visiting Moscow, slated to be in May this year. Wang Yi in Moscow recently is setting the groundwork of what is to come in talks between Xi and Putin.
The coming visit of Xi to Moscow is telling the world that despite all the attempts to tear them apart, even with concessions for Putin in Ukraine, it is not going to work. Wang Yi and Sergey Lavrov have given their relations a deeper and closer link, calling it a 'friends forever and never enemies', nothing like all the 'iron clad' relations between USA and its allies that could not even move beyond the imposition of tariffs. But then, as Henry Kissinger said, it is fatal to be a friend of the USA.
This coming visit of Xi to Moscow must be over something very important going to happen with BRICS, besides the geopolitical issues over the war in Ukraine and Middle East.
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