President Joe Biden, 79, came into office pointing both barrels at Russia and China, resulting in both countries joining a new alliance against the United States. When Biden decided to boycott the Beijing Winter Games, he pushed U.S.-Chinese relations to the lowest level since the 1949 Maoist Revolution. Biden came into office accusing China of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China, then calling 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin as “Soulless Killer,” wrecking for all practical purposes any relationship with the Kremlin. When the Feb. 24 Ukraine War started, Biden had been arming Ukraine for months, with Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky begging for NATO membership. Biden didn’t know that destroying U.S. ties with Russia and China would present extreme complications for U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Chinese Amb. to Moscow Zhang Hanhui told the TASS state news agency today that Washington caused the Ukraine War by letting NATO encroach on Russian national security but, more importantly, arming Ukraine to the teeth, forcing Putin’s hand to invade Ukraine. “As the initiator and main instigator of the Ukrainian crisis, Washington, while imposing unprecedented comprehensive sanctions on Russia, continues to supply arms and military equipment to Ukraine,” Zhang told TASS. Zhang told TASS that the White House was trying to degrade the Russian military, a point made April 26 by 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “Their ultimate goal is to exhaust and crush Russia with a protracted war and the cudgel of sanctions,” Zhang told TASS. When it comes to Russia, China has found a parallel with how the U.S. deals with Taiwan, saying recently Biden would defend Taipei from a Mainland attack.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin pledged their loyalty in a new military and economic alliance to confront U.S. aggression. China and Russia feel that Washington has overstepped its boundaries, especially supplying unlimited cash-and-arms to Ukraine. Biden put Putin in a dilemma leading up to the Ukraine War, refusing to discuss new security arrangements for months before Putin moved the Russian army into Ukraine. Putin stated his conditions for ending the conflict for months ago, asking Ukraine to accepted the independence of Donetsk and Luhans, as acknowledge Crimea as a Russian territory. Zelensky rejected Putin’s ceasefire conditions, prompting the war to go full steam ahead. Zhang says the “ultimate goal” of the Ukraine War, something repeated by Biden and Austin. Zelsensky really has little to do with prosecuting the war, other than taking cash-arums-and-orders from the White House.
Biden’s belligerent diplomacy with Russia and China drove both nuclear-armed superpowers into an alliance against the United States. When Putin went to the Beijing Winter Games, it cemented the alliance against the U.S. Pelosi’s Aug. 2 visit to Taiwan and all her hostile public remarks since returning has driven another nail into U.S.-Chinese relations. Calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “scared bully,” Pelosi has pushed Beijing closer to invading Taiwan than every before. Why she keeps making incendiary remarks is anyone’s guess. Knowing the fragile situation in the wake of her Taiwan trip, you’d think Pelosi would be careful what she says publicly. But no, she congratulates herself on standing up to Beijing, resisting the weeks of threats coming out to Beijing for her expected Taipei visit. Wrecking U.S.-Chinese relations does nothing for world peace and stability.
Confirming a new era of Sino-Russian relations, Zhang said that Beijing and Moscow were on the same page when it came to Washington. Zhang said Chinese-Russian relations were “the best period in history, characterized by the highest level of mutual trust, the highest degree of interaction, and the greatest strategic importance,” Zhan said, letting Washington know that there was nothing that could get in the way of the Beijing-Moscow bond. Biden doesn’t seem too concerned that the U.S. under his leadership has lost pragmatic, working relations with Russia and China, something every president since WW II worked guaranteed. Getting back the trust won’t be easy for Washington, who’s alienated Russia and China to the point that they’ve joined a new military and economic alliance. It’s no accident that China buys Russian oil, boycotted by the United States because of the Ukraine War.
Zhang’s message to Washington is that Biden has burnt his bridges to China and Russia for the foreseeable future. As long as the U.S. pays Ukraine to fight a proxy war against the Russian Federation, there’s little hope restoring diplomatic relations. Biden hoped he could pull of a prisoner swap to get WNBA star Brittney Griner out of Russian prison now that she’s convicted for cannabis possession and trafficking. With the U.S. supplying unlimited cash-and –arms to Ukraine, why should Putin even consider any goodwill gesture to the White House? “Non-iintervention in internal affairs is the most fundamental principle of maintaining peace and stability in the world,” Zhang told TASS, pointing to Washington’s involvement in the Ukraine War. Zhang also sees a strong parallel with how Biden and Pelosi have antagonized Beijing on the issue of Taiwan independence, damaging U.S.-Chinese relations.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnistt.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
