“In the coming period, the risks and challenges we face will intensify,” he said. Xi Jinping from his pulpit, preparing the Chinese state/party apparatus for the escalating challenges ahead.

“As he enters his third term as president, China’s top leader Xi Jinping is sending the signal that he will take a tougher stance on what he sees as an attempt United States to prevent it from rising. China. And he does it with unusually harsh words,” writes Keith Bradcher, New York Times bureau chief for Beijingciting Xi’s words from the podium on Sunday before members of the National People’s Congress in Beijing and on Monday as an indication of China’s sentiment.

“Western countries, led by the United States, are pursuing a policy of containment, encirclement and suppression of China, which has presented our country’s development with unprecedented challenges,” Xi Jinping said on Monday, according to an official Chinese state news agency.

A day later, on Tuesday, China’s new foreign minister (and former Chinese ambassador to Washington), Qin Gang, for his part, reinforced the warning shots about the threat of a Sino-American conflict, gnashing his teeth towards the West and the United States.

“If the United States does not slow down, if it continues to accelerate along the wrong path, no fences will prevent a derailment that will turn into a conflict and a showdown,” said Qin, who took over the reins of the Chinese Foreign Ministry only in December last year. .

“Restriction and oppression (by China) will not make America great, but it will not stop China’s resurgence,” the Chinese foreign minister said, sending a loud warning to Washington. Indeed, in the context of the same speech, the new head of Chinese diplomacy presented a model of Sino-Russian relations, which is characterized by relations of “good neighborliness” and “strategic trust”, in his words, as a “role model”. imitation” for other countries in the field of international relations. His speech, of course, could not but touch on its topic. Taiwan. “Why is the US asking China not to supply arms to Russia while they continue to sell arms to Taiwan?” he asked, urging Washington to “return to the fundamental principle of a united China” and “unequivocally oppose its independence” of Taiwan. “.

U.S. officials say to the Associated Press that the propaganda moves and tactics (disinformation, public influence, cyberattacks, and psychological operations/PSE) adopted by China they look more like Russia.

“Xi’s new bluntness may resonate with nationalist audiences inside China, but risks unease abroad at a time when Beijing seeks to strengthen its ties with the West,” Keith Bradcher writes in the New York Times, arguing that the Chinese leadership is now preparing for enter a phase of greater confrontation and competition with the United States.

Analysts such as Michael Swain (of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Government) argue that Xi Jinping spoke for the first time and so directly targeted the US during his speech.

However, according to Andrew Collier (of Orient Capital Research), when the Chinese president raises his voice against the US, he is mostly speaking to a domestic, Chinese audience.

However, the meeting held in November last year. Biden And Xi in the context of the G20 summit in Indonesia did not ultimately contribute to lowering the tone.

On the contrary, the climate in Sino-American relations has deteriorated recently, against the backdrop of a trade “war” (sanctions) still raging between the world’s two largest economies, technological competition (tik tak, 5Ghuawei, microchip etc.), Taiwan (Pelosi’s visit), alleged China spy balloons, war in Ukraine and Sino-Russian relations.

China’s close cooperation with Russia at a time when the West is seeking to isolate Moscow over its war in Ukraine has heightened fears of a new type of Cold War.