President Joe Biden, 78, and his 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken have figured out how to alienate the world in their new diplomacy bludgeoning all foreign countries that don’t subscribe to U.S. hypocrisy. When Blinken and 44-year-old Jake Sullivan met with China in a get-to-know-you summit in Anchorage, Alaska March 18, they humiliated the Chinese delegation, hurling accusations about China’s alleged human rights abuses. Blinken and Sullivan got on their high horse and blasted Beijing for their treatment of one million Muslim Uyghurs in XinJianag province, pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and ordinary ties with Taiwan. Blinken went far so far to accuse China of “genocide” with the Uyghur population, an outrageous claim, deeply offending the Chinese delegation. When China’s chief diplomat Yang Jiechi said, in effect, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, Blinken and Sullivan looked dumbfounded.
Jiechi told Blinken and Sullvan that no country that slaughters black citizens or denies them equal opportunity should lecture other countries about human rights. Beijing listened carefully when Biden said publicly Jan. 27 that the United States was a “systemically racist” country, meaning African Americans have been denied opportunity and faced racism since the first black slaves were brought to the Virginia Colony in 1619. China listens carefully to an American president declaring that the U.S. is a “systemically racist” country. Jiechi told Blinken and Sullivan that until they can resolve their own criminal treatment of African Americans and others they have no right to lecture China on what happens in Xinjiang with Uyghurs or the Cantonese in Hong Kong. Since taking office Jan. 20, Biden and Blinker have accused Russia and China of grotesque human rights abuses, demanding immediate correction.
Putting U.S. diplomacy on a war footing, the stability with foreign nations enjoyed by former President Donald Trump has long since expired. “Some have argued that it’s not worth it for the U.S. to speak up forcefully for human rights—or that we should highlight abuse only in select countries, and only in a way that directly advances our national interests,” Blinken said, denouncing the Trump policy. “But those people miss the point. Standing up for human rights everywhere is in America’s interests,” Blinken said, saying nothing about putting the State Department on a war footing. Biden and Blinken have alienated Russia and China to the point that the U.S. can’t count on either country to help resolve hot spots, potentially military conflict, around the globe where it’s urgently needed. Biden flat out called Russian President Vladimir Putin March 16 a “soulless killer.”
Maybe Blinken should check with 67-year-old Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin about recent Russian encroachment in NATO and NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] airspace, where U.S. and NATO jets have been scrambling to deal with unprecedented activity by the Russian air force. Has Blinken heard the pleas in Ukraine about more Russian military activity on the Southeastern Ukraine-Russian border, where pro-Russian separatists in the Peoples Republic of Donetsk look to break away from Ukraine? Blinken was in the Obama State Department when Putin invaded and annexed Crimea March 1, 2014. He knows the former President Barack Obama and Biden did nothing to stop Putin’s invasion because no one in NATO or the Brussels-based European Union [EU] wanted to confront Putin. So what’s Biden and Blinken pushing things to the brink now?
Biden and Blinken have used 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny as the poster boy for a clandestine democracy movement in Russia. Blinken demanded the Putin release Navalny from prison, something Putin and the Kremlin ignored. But like Blinken’s current human rights crusade, what’s he going to do with Russia and China other than push the world to the brink of war? “And the Biden-Harris administration will stand against human rights abuses where they occur, regardless of whether the perpetrators are adversaries or partners,” Blinken said. Blinken needs to look no furuther than crumbling American cities where U.S. citizens live under boxes without out houses, in the largest growing homeless population in the Western world. Doesn’t Biden and Blinken think the whole world is watching the human misery in U.S. streets while they lecture the rest of the world.
Biden and Blinken have committed the worst rookie mistakes in running U.S. foreign policy. Whatever isn’t perfect in other countries, it’s not the job of the State Department to rub it in the faces of foreign friends and foes. Blinken got a taste of his own medicine when Jiechi stood up to U.S. hypocrisy on human rights, while the world watches race riots with pervasive rioting, looting and arson in American streets. Biden and Blinken are content to lecture the world from above-it-all, showing the kind of arrogance not seen since the days of former President Jimmy Carter. Accusing China of “genocide” or Putin of being a “soulless killer” pushes the world closer to doomsday. Instead of using a sledgehammer, Biden and Blinken would be better off showing more subtlety when criticizing foreign adversaries. Biden and Blinken’s human rights agenda has already failed.
