A Beijing Cyclones teammate Henry Mu is racing toward the corner in search of the ball. His feet pounding against the AstroTurf as he leaps up to take the ball.
“I was awestruck to see American football on the field,” Henry says. Henry while he sighs. “It’s extremely tough both mentally and physically, so you have to overcome your fears.”
The sport is played by players of both genders participate in the game in a group. It is typically connected to Baltimore instead of Beijing.
In the eyes of enough Americans it is much more than just a sporting event, it’s the expression of their identities as a people. For the Chinese team, this is something that is completely different. Only a few number of Chinese players. China but the country has millions of people who support them.
It’s precisely the type of “people to people” interactions and bonds that Beijing wants to create as part of its relationship with the US during the time that two formidable superpowers are battling for control of their relationships.
Since president Xi Jinping visited San Francisco during November of the this year China was keen in making clear what it has in common with the US instead of focussing on any difference.
Beijing appears to ease its diplomatic rhetoric during the last few days while it tries to attract foreign firms to spur economy’s expansion.
On its own in its own manner, the US has been sending envoys more frequently in China and has shown signs of cooperation. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Shanghai for the second time in China within a one year. The visit follows on from two visits made by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
The US defines it as “responsibly taking control of concurrence” in order to minimize the chance from “miscalculation or conflicts”, similar to a high State Department official speaking in the lead-up to the visit of Mr Blinken.
It doesn’t mean that talks will go easy. There is no doubt that relationships among China as well as the US are improving in recent years, but the relationship remains tension-filled and prone to doubt.
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“Mr. Blinken played basketball in Shanghai only a couple of minutes from the time he arrived.
This plane, which was piloted by the Mr. Blinken on Wednesday, carried reporters, official as well as the BBC as well as the BBC flew away towards Anchorage and then zigzagged across the Pacific up to north of Russian territories, and then heading towards the Chinese coast to North Taiwan and north Taiwan. South China Sea – a diagram of the route which shows the flashpoints.
In the year prior the year before, a reported Chinese satellite was discovered within the airspace of the freezing waters in Alaska and led to an international emergency, and a climax in China-US relations.
Over the course of the day, prior to when Blinken was able to walk onto the road in Shanghai later in the afternoon the US Senate passed a bill that also provides an additional $8.5 billion in aid to operations in the military for Taiwan which is a nation that president Biden has said the US will defend in the event an attack from China. Taiwan, which is self-governed and viewed by its largest ally US as having the largest allies. However, it is governed by China.
The bill also contained senators’ votes to ban the social media app TikTok because its Chinese company, ByteDance, did not offer it for sale in the following nine months.
In her most recent visit during the month of March, Yellen is a critic of China for the capacity problems that led to cheap Chinese items flooding into in the US market.
China opposes this trend. These are considered to be an element of Washington’s attempts to control China’s economic growth and also to deter its influence on the world stage. US officials claim that if China seeks to get threats of tariffs or sanctions removed, or US has signed bilateral agreements that made it easier for China’s regional adversaries and neighbors in the region, Beijing has to change its ways of doing business.
On Thursday, Blinken will inform the Foreign Minister Wang Yi that China needs to stop imports of microchips as well as machines to Russia. The report states that Moscow makes use of these gadgets to fight Ukraine. Beijing declares it a “groundless assertion” and believes it’s American lack of sincerity after the time in which Washington offered millions of dollars in dangerous aid to Kyiv.
Beijing is also announcing its specific set of threats to Washington. The days leading up Blinken’s arrival, the Chinese government published a lengthy and stoutly stated announcement in which they laid out what they would expect from discussion.
Even though relations are beginning to settle, “the United States continues moving forward with the plan of controlling China but continues to adopt incorrect words and actions that influence China’s internal affairs, degrade China’s image and threaten China’s goals. China is firmly opposed to such actions and has instituted tough anti-measures” similar to the statements.
The state media and Chinese academics have been in agreement with this view. “It is as if Blinken has come to give an ultimatum China. We won’t accept his demands and we will never compromise on our most important issues. “,” Li Haidong Professor of China Foreign Affairs University, China Foreign Affairs University, told The Global Times.
Wang Yong from the School of International Relations at Peking University thinks that the possibility of a “win-win relationship” is possible in the relationship, but he believes that China and the US are of been given the “wrong impression” regarding China as well as Washington should be the one with greater “goodwill”.