Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 58, continues to push U.S. and China to the brink, over China’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan held a get-to-know-you summit in Anchorage, Alaska March 18, blinding the Chinese delegation with accusations about human rights abuses of Uyghurs, pro-democracy protesters in Hong and normal ties to Taiwan. President Joe Biden, 78, in concert with the EU, U.K. and Canada, authorized Blinken to slap China with sanctions March 22, prompting China to retaliate in kind March 27, hitting the U.S., U.K. and Canada. Blinken knew the vicious cycle, sanction China for alleged “genocide” against Muslim Uyghurs, pro-democracy protesters and ties with Taiwan, all of which, China says are internal matters not subject to U.S., EU, U.K. or Canadian oversight.
Whatever Blinken did with China, he’s done much worse with Russia, hitting the Kremlin over its treatment of 44-year-old incarcerated Russian dissident Alexi Navalny. Picking fights with China and Russia can have lasting consequences on U.S. national security, playing into both countries looking for confrontation. If China invaded Taiwan or if Russia annexed more territory in Ukraine, there’s little the U.S. or its NATO allies could do to stop it. Since taking office, Biden and Blinken have been on a terror, slamming Russia and China, leaving relations with the two countries at the lowest level in recent memory. Blinken called the China’s move “baseless sanctions” on U.S., EU, U.K. and Canadian officials. Blinken said China reacted “apparently in retaliation for U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials connected with serious human rights abuse” on Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, province.
Whatever happens in Russia or China, Blinken should know that both countries feeling unfairly maligned by the U.S. leaving relations deteriorated When Blinker met face-to-face with senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Anchorage, he slammed China for abusing the Uyghur population, even so far to call it “genocide.” Jiechi shot back at Blinken that the U.S. has no moral authority to condemn other countries when they routinely slaughter African Americans on U.S. streets. Biden admitted to the world Jan. 27 that the U.S. was a “systemically racist” country, prompting his administration to play a more active role in racial justice. When a U.S. president admits to “systemic racism,” what are other countries supposed to think? African American leaders, led by civil rights groups like Black Lives Matter, have accused U.S. law enforcement of unequal treatment and abuse of blacks.
China or Russia didn’t say they would sanction the U.S. government over what looks to the outside word, as broadcast in the press, race riots on U.S. streets, prompting the police to respond sometimes violently to street protests. Calling the Chinese counter-sanctions “baseless,” does nothing to defuse a volatile situation, where Blinken has chosen to throw gasoline on an already raging fire. “Beijing’s attempt to intimidate and silence those speaking for human rights and fundamental freedoms only contribute to the growing international scrutiny of ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,” Blinken said. China takes Blinker’s public remarks as baseless insults, public humiliation for something he knows nothing a bout. Chinese Community Party officials have vigorously denied that any “genocide” has ever gone on in Xinjiang, asking Blinken to cease-and-desist in the accusations.
Blinken has done the same thing, accusing 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin poisoning Navalny, not proven anywhere but rushed to judgment by Western governments and their press baclers. Putin has denied the accusations of poisoning Navalny Aug. 24 in Tomsk, Siberia, but, more recently, denied accusations of giving Navalny inadequate medical care for his bad back in the IK-2 penal colony 100 kilometers [62 miles] from Moscow. When you look at the big picture, Biden and Blinken look like they’re trying to push the U.S. into a confrontation with Russia and China. Biden and Blinken talk of multilateral diplomacy, telling EU officials that standing united gives them more leverage in dealing with Russia and China. But Biden’s so-called allies in the EU, U.K. and Canada, now the focus of Chinese sanction, want no part of any U.S. confrontation with Russia and Chiina.
Biden and Blinken have extended foreign policy to carrying the U.S. banner protecting human rights around the globe, something that’s got them in a whole world of hurt. If they both push too far, China or Russia will act to protect their interests by annexing more territory in Ukraine or, worse yet, in former Soviet satellites like the Balkans. China too won’t stop building military installation in the South or East China seas, threatening their neighbors in the Pacific Rim. Biden and Blinken’s righteous foreign policy has led pacifists like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to chime in. “We stand with Parliamentarians against these unacceptable actions, and we will continue to defend human right around the world with our international partners,” Trudeau said. Biden and Blinken’s aggressive foreign policy against Russia and China has pushed world governments to the brink.
