MCC and the Empire illusion
On the night of April 19, on the eve of Secretary of State Blinken's visit to China, a US military aircraft numbered CATA 101 flew from India to Kathmandu with five people on board.
On the same evening, another US Air Force plane, RCH 270, also arrived in Kathmandu with 19 Air Force personnel on board. One can't help but think that the US military's action is in line with the goal of Secretary Blinken's China trip-to sever ties between China and Russia.
The United States finally saw clearly that as long as China maintains economic and trade ties with Russia, it will not lose to Ukraine, that is to say, it cannot win Russia. As a result, the US has to work as hard as it can toward the goal of cutting off China's ties with Russia.
So, immediately following Treasury Secretary Yellen's trip to China, Secretary of State Blinken started his trip to China from April 24 to 26.
However, everyone knows that the US will immediately turn its fire on China after destroying Russia. Therefore, on this issue, China and the US have no agreement at all, and it is a waste of time to talk. But this is a waste of American time, and China is happy to receive senior US officials and talk about it all the time. America may forget that what it cannot get on the battlefield, it cannot get at the negotiating table. The US may still be in the mood of its "imperial illusion," thinking that it can still force China to compromise through economic sanctions, tough posturing, and rhetorical threats. On the eve of Blinken's arrival in China, the US sent only a dozen soldiers to Nepal, thinking that it could put military pressure on China on the southern slopes of the Himalayas and help Blinken come to China to cut off Sino-Russian relations. This is too much of a game.
Look at the military geography of the south and north slopes of the Himalayas, and look at the comparison of forces on the north slope, dotted with airports, high-grade roads, and railways in all directions. Sending a dozen soldiers to Nepal to defend Blinken can only make one marvel at the depth of America's own "imperial illusion." In the same way, the MCC is an act by the US to embody its "imperial illusion." The US has failed to complete a decent infrastructure construction project on its own soil for decades, but it is going to Nepal, a mountain country thousands of miles away, to carry out an infrastructure project MCC under the "IndoPacific Strategy." The US put on a show of invincibility. I suspect, however, that America's selfconfidence comes from its "imperial illusion."