Two days after Deng Xiaoping in 1979, had arrived on his historic visit to Washington, both sides signed an agreement on the opening of their first two consulates in each other’s country. On the Chinese side included the Consulate General in Houston, to be closed after the American’s sake this Friday.

a Symbol full of the step to the taking of what is transpiring for quite some time: The relations of the two leading economies have entered a new Phase. Even Henry Kissinger, who had driven in the seventies, after thirty years of hostility, the American approach to the Communist-ruled China, significantly, is now talking from the beginning of a second cold war.

China’s party media have probably not wrong, if you consider the abrupt closure of the Consulate General as the American election campaign manoeuvre. However, including a tectonic shift, and it is not until Donald Trump is President.

New Chinese foreign policy

, you will be driven to a great extent by a new Chinese foreign policy; it is accelerated by the global disruptions of the Corona pandemic.

in February it looked as if the Virus would make the Chinese leaders Xi Jinping before the biggest challenge of his previous term of office. However, since the pandemic has also the Rest of the world in its grip, it seems Xi to see the Chance had come “to the back of the Chinese Nation” with the Verve of the guards forward.

a Long time, the Chinese was aligned foreign policy to keep risks as low as possible and to create a stable environment, the Communist party threatens the power. However, in the past few months, Beijing has gone no confrontation, more out of the way.

In the South China sea and over Taiwan, China has increased its military presence. Australia has been punished for it, that the country entered for a reconnaissance of the initial cover-up of the Virus outbreak. The border conflict with India, China was at least as far as escalate, that twenty Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers lost their lives.