Entering into dangerous territory, the United States and European Union [EU] joined what looks like an alliance against Russia and China, raising concerns about possible military confrontation should 78-year-old President Biden continue to insult 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a “soulless killer” March 16 to ABC News George Stephanopoulos. Stephapoulous baited Joe into answering some hypothetical questions about Russia meddling with U.S. elections, democracy and hacking into U.S. computer systems. All of Stephanopoulos’ questions led up asking Biden whether or not he thought Putin was a killer. “Mmm, Hmm,” Biden said. “Yes I do,” creating whopping gaffe for the whole world to see. Kremlin officials, led by spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked Biden to apologize for his insulting remarks. Two days later, Biden went after Communist China at a get-to-know-you summit March 18 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan insulted China, accusing Beijing of “genocide” against the Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang, along the old Silk Road. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and state councilor Wang Yi fired back that no country suffering from “systemic racism” as Biden said Jan. 27 has a right to lecture another country about human rights. Jiechi and Yi said the world watched the U.S. government slaughter African Americans in U.S. streets. Biden and his foreign policy team have made a mess of things in only 60 days, now asks the EU to join the madness. “How to advance our shared economic interests and to counter some of China’s aggressive and coercive actions, as well as its failures in the past, to uphold its international commitments,” Blinken said, asking EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to join in.
Borrell knows that the EU has much to lose joining Biden’s senseless war of words with China, with much of the EU’s 18.292 trillion Gross Domestic Product.linked to Chinese manufacturing, much the U.S. “We share an assessment of China’s role as a partner, as a competitor, and a systemic rival,” Borrell told reporters today in Brussels. With former President Donald Trump’s America First policy jettisoned, Biden now seeks to join the EU in collective alliance to combat Russia and China. “When we are acting together, we are much stronger and much more effective than if any single one of us is doing it alone,” Blinken said, asking more for EU cover rather that putting forward a coherent U.S. foreign policy. It’s not U.S. foreign policy to defer decision making to Brussels or any other capital. U.S., EU, U.K. and Canada slapped Russia and China with new economic and trade sanctions.
U.S. and EU officials claim that China must stop its mistreatment of Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang, Western China. Blinken accused China of “genocide” Jan. 19, irking Beijing, categorically denying the charge. Blinken has no proof of “genocide,” only work or internment camps, largely used by the Chinese for job training and reeducation against Islamic extremism. How ironic that the Boulder, Colorado massacre killing 10 supermarket shoppers by 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa involves a potential Muslim extremist. Yet, unlike China, Al Aliwi was able to legally purchase a Ruger assault weapon to carry out his rampage. Blinken asks the EU to join his attacks on China’s treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority, when the U.S. president called his country Jan. 27 “systemically racist.” No leader in the 27-member EU block calls its states “systemically racist.”
Does EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell believe the U.S. is a “systemically racist” country, housing the most diverse population on the planet with more laws protecting minority rights that any country on the planet? Slapping Chinese officials in Xinjiang with economic and travel sanctions comes with a big price to U.S.-EU-China relations. Calling claims about the Uyghurs, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters and Taiwan relations “maliciously spread lies and disinformation,” China has not taken the U.S. and EU attacks lying down. Speaking to NATO, Blinken said Beijing’s retaliatory sanctions “make it all the more important that we stand firm and stand together, or risk sending the message that bullying works.” Blinken asked the EU to join the most draconic U.S. sanction against China for alleged human rights abuses in U.S. history, potentially damaging relations for generations.
Blinke can pound his chest all he wants but NATO’s Secrteray-General Jens Stoltenberg knows that, no matter how beefed up NATO, it’s in no position to confront Beijing or Russia militarily. Unlike Trump that raised unfair trade deals that could be corrected, Blinken has asked the EU to join the condemnation of Russia and China’s human rights history. Stoltenberg told Blinken that NATO does not “regard China as an adversary, but of course the rise of China has direct consequences for our security.” EU officials, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel, know that Russia and China are strategic partners both economically and for global security With Germany and Russia completing the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, the EU plans to expand its already 40% of natural gas it buys from Russia. Asking the EU to join Biden’s insulting foreign policy, just doesn’t work.
