Threats from 80-year-old President Joe Biden and 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken against China for supporting Russia’s Ukraine War prompted a stern rebuke from Beijing. Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi ripped the White House telling Biden that he could not dictate who China supports or doesn’t, especially when it comes to the Ukraine War. Biden’s relations with China have been abysmal from Day One, accusing Beijing of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs March 18, 2021 at a get to know you summit in Anchorage, Alaska. If that weren’t bad enough, Biden said Sept. 23, 2022 that he would commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to take over the island-nation. Chinese President Xi Jinping considered Biden’s statement a violation of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, requiring the U.S. to recognize only one China, the one in Beijing.
When Biden boycotted the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, 70-year-old President Vladimr Putin jumped in to profess Moscow’s loyalty. Xi had enough of Biden’s duplicity over Muslim Uyghurs and Hong Kong pro-democracy activists. Xi expected Biden to stop meddling in China’s internal affairs, telling Washington to mind its own human rights abuses, especially against African Americans. Wang put Biden on notice that whatever China did to support its Moscow ally, it was none of the U.S. business, regardless of all the loyalty Biden gets from the European Union. “In this context, cooperation between the Peoples Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the global arena is particularly important for stabilizing the international situation,” Wang said, recognizing the rift between Moscow and Washington. Biden and Blinken warned China about backing Moscow’s Ukraine War.
Wang talks about the importance of the global alliance between Beijing and Moscow in term of preserving world peace and order. Before Biden decided to join the Ukrainian proxy war against the Russian Federation, the Moscow and Washington enjoyed decades of international cooperation on a host of common issues, including arms control. Lying on his deathbed in Plains, Georgia, 87-year-old former President Jimmy Carter devoted his four years in office to nuclear nonproliferation. Things are so bad with the U.S. today, Putin announced yesterday that Russia would withdraw from the 2010 START treaty, the last remaining U.S.-Russian arms control agreement. “Chinese–Russian relations aren’t directed against any third countries and certainly can’t be subject an third countries,” Wang said, telling the U.S. to stop its threats about Beijing’s relations with Moscow.
Biden’s aggressive foreign policy toward Beijing and Moscow has pushed both countries into a global strategic and military alliance. Threatening to sanction Beijing for supporting the Russian Federation only made a bad situation worse for the White House. U.S. officials have grown suspicious of China’s attempts to undermine U.S. and Western sanctions against the Russian Federation for its Ukraine invasion. China agrees with Russia that the U.S. and EU have grown far too manipulative in dictating with whom China can cast its support. Biden wants everyone on the anti-Putin bandwagon but found out that Russia and China are close personal allies. Wang spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about host of cooperative ventures. “Our ties have continued to develop dynamically, and despite high turbulence in the global arena, we have to show the readiness to speak in defense of each other’s interesests,” Lavrov said.
Biden has been infuriated by China’s refusal to back his Western alliance against the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Biden and Blinken have tried to leak information to the press about China’s apparent attempt to provide aid-and-comfort to Moscow in its war in Ukraine. Biden says he leads a global coalition against Moscow for the Ukraine invasion. But China has not joined Biden’s global coalition against Moscow, providing economic and political support to Putin. “It seems like anyone who talks with Russia will be seen as siding with Moscow in Russian-Ukraine conflict,” said English-language Chinese newspaper Zhang. Unlike the U.S., Beijing knows that it has global support from Beijing, regardless of its relations with Moscow. Since taking office Jan. 20, 2021, Biden has shown bad faith with China, criticizing Beijing’s human rights abuses and crack down on democracy.
Biden finds himself caught in quicksand in Ukraine, a product o pure bad judgment and decision-making. Had Biden not tossed the Kremlin under the buss, preserved normal diplomatic relations, not funded a proxy war against the Russian Federation, the U.S. would have more foreign policy clout. Taking Ukraine’s side has trashed decades of cooperative relations between Washington and Moscow. Watching Putin suspend the START treaty, the last remaining arms control pace with the U.S., reflects the deteriorated state of U.S.-Russian relations. Supporting Ukraine didn’t require Biden to trash U.S.-Russian relations. Biden’s belligerent rhetoric toward Putin has driven Russia and China into a close political and military alliance. Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin will take years to fix, if ever, leaving Washington and Moscow enemies for the foreseeable future.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
