Calling 79-year-old Joe Biden’s diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics as mistake, 75-year-old former President Donald Trump said he had a good relationship with 68-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden’s been slamming Beijing for its treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjinag Province in Western China, willing to risk China invading Taiwan to make a point about China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs in Western China. Trump called Xi “a killer” but said he doesn’t support Biden’s diplomatic boycott. Trump chose not to make a big deal about China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims on the ancient Silk Road in its Western provinces. Trump told Fox News business host Maria Bartiromo that a diplomatic boycott made the U.S. look like “sore losers.” Trump had tough trade negotiations but kept everything focused on business relations.
Biden chose to go a different route, accusing China of grotesque human rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs and pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Kong, where the Mainland government continued its crackdown. Trump likened Biden’s 2022 diplomatic boycott to former President Jimmy Carter boycotting the 1980 Soviet Moscow Summer Games. Trump knows that unlike a diplomatic boycott in Feb. 2022, Biden plans to let U.S. athletes compete for medals, just not send an official delegation. Biden thinks using the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to make a political statement gains traction with other Western countries. While the European Union [EU] has sympathy with Biden, they’re not diplomatically boycotting the Beijing Games, preferring to not use the Olympics to make political statements. No one in Olympic circles wants to see world leaders use the Olympics to make political statements.
Since Biden took office Jan. 20, he’s been slamming China for human rights abuses, attacking China for fundamental differences with the United States. Secretary of State Tony Blinken 59, and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan got the U.S. off on the wrong foot March 18 when they met with senior Chinese diplomats in Anchorate, Alaska. Things got so ugly, senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi told Blinken and Sullivan that the U.S. had no right to criticize China when its admits of “systemic racism” against African Americans. Blinken and Sullivan slammed Beijing to committing genocide against Muslim Uyghurs. Neither Blinken nor Sullivan could point to a single incident of genocide, accusing China of abusing its Muslim Uyghur population. Trump spent his four years focused on trade issues with Beijing, especially China ripping off American copyrights and patents.
With a long history of trade relations dating back to the 1970s when President Richard Nixon opened up trade relations with China in 1972, Biden’s created so much bad will with Beijing he jeopardizes the U.S. economy now suffering from supply chain issues and the highest inflation in 40 years. Biden’s Dec. 17 decision to sanction China’s companies in Xinjiang province makes improved China relations all but impossible. Biden has driving China into a close security alliance with Moscow, now calling each other close allies. “I really believe he liked me, I like him,” Trump told Bartiromo. “He is a killer but I had a great relationship with him,” showing how thing have changed in the last year. Biden’s accusations of China’s mistreatment of Muslim Uyghus has cause a real rift in U.S.-Chinese relations. Biden will be lucky if China doesn’t invade Taiwan in the near future.
Trump reminds the public that it wasn’t that long ago when the U.S. had good relations with China. Biden has made it difficult to have good relations to China because of insisting Muslim Uyghurs are routinely abused by the Beijing government. Trump once celebrate a trade deal with China that “will b ring both the USA & Chin closer together in so many other ways,” Trump tweeted. “Terrific working with President Xi, a man who truly loves his country. Much more to come!” Trump tweeted in 2020. Biden’s relations are so bad with China there’s little hope to reel things back from the brink. “Just finished a very good conversation with President Xi of China. Discussed in great detail the coronavirus that is ravaging large parts of our Planet. China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the virus. We are working closely together in so many ways,” Trump tweeted in March 2020.
Biden has created such an acrimonious relationship with Xi, it’s unlikely China will work cooperatively with the U.S. in the near future. When it comes to Biden, he’s put U.S.-China relations on a dangerous path, complaining about human rights abuses. Under the Biden policy, how’s the U.S. supposed to get along with its adversaries like Russia and China? Judging by how Biden’s handled bilateral relations, not too well. When you consider all the ways Russia and China can help U.S. national security, burning those bridges has made working relationships next to impossible. Trump figured out early on if he wanted to get along with Russia and China, he needed to park his vitriol at the door and accept differences between totalitarian regimes and the United States. Trump understood how to pick his battles with the two superpowers. Unlike Biden, Trump kept U.S.-China and U.S.-Russian relations open.