Saying he was “proud” of 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at the Anchorage summit for standing up to China, 78-year-old President Joe Biden could not be more detached from reality. By anyone’s accounts, the summit has gone poorly because the U.S. delegation lectured China about human rights abuses with Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province, pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Kong and business ties with Taiwan. China’s Foreign Minister Jang Jiechi and State Councilor Wang Yi were taken aback by the brazen rudeness of Blinken and Sullivan’s opening statements, accusing China of human right abuses and violating “the rules based order,” referring to China’s actions in the South and East China Sea. “I am very proud of the Secretary of State,” Biden said, not realizing the Anchorage summit has gone badly.
Biden’s dealing with his own problems in fallout of a hideous gaffe to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos March 16 calling Russian President Vladimir Putin as “soulless killer.” Stephanopoulos was so dumbfounded, he asked the question twice whether Biden thought Putin was a killer. “Mmm Hmmm, I do,” answered Biden. Biden’s gaffe resulted in Mocow calling back their U.S. Amb. Anatoly Antonov for consultation. Biden’s proud over the fact that his chief diplomat alienated China, just like he did when he demanded Putin release 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny from jail. Biden said he wanted Blinken to go into the meeting from a “position of strength,” thinking he can call China out on its human rights abuses. Well this time around, Yang gave Blinken some of his own medicine, telling the new Secretary of State that the U.S. was in no place to lecture China on human rights.
Biden said he would lead a coalition against Communist China, something so preposterous it’s actually dangerous. No one in Europe, Asia or elsewhere wants to get into a spat with China, over the plight of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiain, or, for that matter, U.S. business lies with Taiwan Talking about Tibet is old news, not subject to discussion, beyond China saying its an internal Chinese matter, none of the U.S. beeswax. Yet Biden’s so proud of Blinken who’s made a mess of U.S.-Russian relations, now does the same thing with China. One big difference in China is that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s doesn’t care about the rhetoric, only the bottom line. So whatever Blinken did to alienate Beijing, all is forgotten as long as China gets the business deals with the U.S. it wants, especially ending former President Trump’s sanctions.
Biden told the European Union Feb. 19 that “America is back,” meaning that he’s ready, unlike Trump, to lead the “Free World,” a term so obsolete, so misguided, so off-the-wall, that EU allies said, essentially, no thanks. As Biden destroys U.S.-Russian relations, he’s looking to do the same in the EU. Biden told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipline to drag Germany and the EU into his beef with Putin. Merkel told Biden and EU Council President Ursula von der Leyen, no way. Blinken and Sullivan acted clueless, that they could walk into a Summit with China and lambaste them on human rights. Yang hit back quickly, throwing back up current events in the United States. “China will not accept unwarranted accusations from the U.S. side,” Yang said. Once Biden said Jan. 27 the U.S. suffers from “systemic racism,” that’s all China needed to hear.
Blinken acted clueless that Yang and Wi would accept his indictment of China’s human rights abuses. “I’m hearing deep dissatisfaction that the United States is back, that we’re reengaged,” Blinken told Yang. “I’m also hearing deep concerns about some to the actions your government is taking,” Blinken said, offering no specifics, but most likely referring to the crackdown in Hong Kong. Whatever the issue, China is not into American politics, talking about such rubbish that “America is back.” Blinken needs to stop campaigning against Trump and deal with the reality of China. No one in China cares about how much animosity Biden or Blinken have for Trump. China only cares about working constructively with U.S. to augment their bottom line. “The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength,” Yang said.
Lecturing China on its “position of strength” backfired on Blinken, Sullivan and of course Biden. Raising China’s mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Hong Kong protesters or Taiwan’s rights was exactly the wrong approach. “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” Yang said, referring to the months of violent street protests over treatment of African Americans. “We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advocating its own democracy to the rest of the world,” Yang said, giving the U.S. delegation a dose of its own medicine. Instead of grandstanding for the U.S. press, Blinken and Sullivan should have stuck to important bilateral issues, not lambasting China on human rights. Biden said he was proud of Blinken for messing up another important U.S. relationship.
