A Chinese state-affiliated social media commentator says the United States on Tuesday of playing tricks and creating an "illusion" that it is eager to engage, days before an expected visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The lead up to the high-stakes visit has been marred by new U.S. accusations of Chinese spying and scathing Chinese questioning of Washington's sincerity in improving badly frayed ties.
While the U.S. State Department has not announced Blinken's visit, a U.S. official has said he will be in China for talks on June 18. In February, he cancelled a visit to Beijing after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew across the United States.
"Every time they say they want to meet, the United States plays a role and creates the false illusion that it is eager to communicate while at the same time repeatedly testing and provoking China's fundamental principles," Yuyuan Tantian, a social media user affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV, wrote in an article.
U.S. officials, including Blinken himself, have in recent days said China had been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence gathering facilities there in 2019.
Beijing and Havana have rejected the accusation as false.
On Monday, Blinken said China's efforts in Cuba were part of a global effort to expand its presence overseas, and U.S. action to address it since President Joe Biden came to power in 2021 had produced "results", without specifying what those results were.
The balloon incident in February was a "farce", and a request by the U.S. defence secretary to meet his Chinese counterpart at a conference in Singapore this month, which China rejected, was nothing by a "carefully crafted" performance, the Chinese social media commentator wrote.
中國稱美國急於參與是一種“錯覺”
中國官方社交媒體評論員周二表示，美國在美國國務卿安東尼·布林肯 (Antony Blinken) 預期訪華前幾天玩弄把戲，製造一種它渴望參與的“假象”。
美國對中國從事間諜活動的新指控以及中國對華盛頓改善嚴重磨損的關係的誠意的嚴厲質疑，使這次高風險訪問的準備工作受到影響。
雖然美國國務院尚未宣布布林肯的訪問，但一位美國官員表示，他將於 6 月 18 日在中國進行會談。2 月，在疑似中國間諜氣球飛越美國後，他取消了對北京的訪問。
“每次他們說要見面，美國都在扮演角色，製造它急於溝通的虛假假象，同時反複試探和挑釁中國的基本原則，”與該組織有關聯的社交媒體用戶 Yuyuan Tantian 說。國家廣播公司中央電視台，在一篇文章中寫道。
包括布林肯本人在內的美國官員最近幾天表示，中國從古巴進行間諜活動已有一段時間，並於 2019 年升級了那裡的情報收集設施。
北京和哈瓦那以虛假為由否認了這一指控。
週一，布林肯表示，中國在古巴的努力是全球擴大其海外影響力的一部分，自拜登總統於 2021 年上台以來美國採取的應對措施已經產生了“結果”，但沒有具體說明這些結果是什麼。
2月的氣球事件是一場“鬧劇”，美國國防部長本月在新加坡的一次會議上要求與中國國防部長會面，但中國拒絕了，這是一場“精心設計”的表演，中國社交媒體評論員寫道。
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