In the dying days on his job, Jake Sullivan still made a trip to China to have a photo op with Xi Jinping. Did he really believe the Chinese would take him seriously when everything he said or agreed on would be thrown out of the window in a few months? Or was he there applying a job to work for China, or getting a free trip while he still could?
The hottest topic in the mind of Sullivan must be Russia and Iran, two countries that the Americans are preparing to attack. Actually three countries. The third country is obvious. In Ukraine, there is a last ditch effort to win a little ground before they abandon Zelensky and replace him with another traitor of Ukraine. But the war will go on as the ultimate objective is to defeat Russia. Nothing less would do for the Americans after working so hard for so many years and wasting billions in the whole process, and not forgetting throwing all the European economies under the bus. Russia must be defeated at all cost or the clowns would really look like clowns to the Americans and the world. They orchestrated this Ukraine War.
This is the primary goal of Sullivan. And to achieve this, China must stop all assistance in kind or just moral support, military or non military to Russia so that Russia can be taken down.
The trade off, the Americans would not support Taiwan's independence, would not encourage the Pinoys and Japanese to provoke China and raise tension in the South China Sea. The nuclear Typhoon missiles would be withdrawn from the Philippines. And if China refused to oblige, more sanctions would be put on Chinese companies and Chinese banks, and more threats, more tensions in the South China Sea.
His second objective is to stop China from supporting Iran and be on Iran's side when the Americans and Israelis launch a major offensive to finish off Iran. And the trade offs are the same as above.
Sullivan's threat and offers are nothing new, the same slate of cards that the Americans are using against China to bring down China. Sullivan must be thinking that his offers and threats are the most clever idea and China could not but to accept, an offer that China could not refuse. Or he may be thinking the Chinese were so stupid not to read what he did not say.
This is what would happen if Russia and Iran were to be defeated. When that happened, all the offers mentioned above would be like the offers to that stupid Gorbachev, not valid. Maybe Gorbachev was not stupid, just bought over by the Americans, a traitor to the Russians. And the Americans would attack China with NATO, Japan and the Mickey Mouse in the Philippines and Australia. That would be the fate of China in the American's plan to remain as the Empire, to bring down China after finishing off Russia and Iran. Sullivan forgot that he and his Washington clowns only think as far as tomorrow while China is looking ahead 10 or 20 years or more and could see through their silly plans and pranks.
By the look of Sullivan's face in the photo op with Xi, it is very likely that Xi told him to stop being silly and go home, not to come to China again. After he left office, he, Blinken and all the Washington clowns would be sanctioned like Pompeo.