Washington Examiner China demands Biden ditch allies: US ‘not qualified’ to speak from position of strength

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Chinese officials are demanding President Biden ditch U.S. allies facing economic pressure from Beijing in a testy opening encounter at a high-stakes Alaska meeting characterized by barbs over recent upheaval in the United States.
© Provided by Washington Examiner “So let me say here that, in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength,” Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi said. “The U.S. side was not even qualified to say such things even 20 years or 30 years back, because this is not the way to deal with the Chinese people.”

That truculent comment came in an off-script contretemps that followed the opening remarks that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan exchanged with Chinese officials in Anchorage. Yang delivered an extensive statement, speaking longer than the two minutes allotted by agreement, according to U.S. officials, featuring jibes about the putative weaknesses of American democracy.
“And the United States has its style, United States-style democracy, and China has the Chinese-style democracy,” Yang said during his opening remarks. “It is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world. Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States, and they have various views regarding the government of the United States.”
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Sullivan did not appear impressed. “I do hope this conversation will be one carried out with confidence on both sides," he replied. "So it’s not lectures or long, winding statements; it’s the opportunity for us to explain where we’re coming from, to hear where you are coming from, and to indicate, at bottom, what our principles, our priorities, and our long-term strategies are.”
That unexpected rebuttal sparked a new round of commentary from the Chinese officials, who made clear their irritation at the way U.S. officials prefaced the meeting with a week of travel to meet allies in the Indo-Pacific.
“It brings in China’s relationship with the United States, with Japan, and with Australia,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. “If the United States would indiscriminately protest and speak up for those countries just because they are your allies or partners, we believe for the long term ... then it will be very difficult for international relations to develop properly.”
China has imposed a series of economic punishments on Australia over the last year in retaliation for Australia’s call for a credible investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are not going to leave Australia alone on the field,” Kurt Campbell, Sullivan’s top lieutenant for Indo-Pacific issues at the White House National Security Council, told Australian media this week. “We have made clear that the U.S. is not prepared to improve relations in a bilateral and separate context at the same time that a close and dear ally is being subjected to a form of economic coercion.”
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Blinken, speaking moments before Sullivan, delivered his own extemporaneous rejection of Yang’s rebukes.
“I’m hearing deep satisfaction that the United States is back, that we’re re-engaged with our allies and partners,” he said. “I’m also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government has taken, and we’ll have an opportunity to discuss those when we get down to work.”
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Original Author: Joel Gehrke
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Xi sees weakness in the fiden criminal cabal - and he is correct

DPST leadership is focused on dividing America along racial lines and hatred to facilitate their takeover - and will be promptly taken over by Xi - the lord and master of the lapdog fiden.

DPST's do love their 'Big Brother'!!!

our media is just now becoming adept at using double speak and perverse interpretations of events in favor of dimocrat political position, techniques all learned from the chinese state media

and the chinese? they are using "wokeness" and "systemic racism" and "cancel culture" developed by our own communists against us

a symbiotic relationship

No worries. President Harris gots this.

NGIT - the LSM doublespeak comes from Orwell, and even further back with Lenin, marx and Engles propaganda about their 'marxism' - which is only a fairy tale cover for totalitarian dictatorship.

a fairy tale swallowed whole by the DPST nomenklatura and their minions.

Lenin, mao, Stlain, maduro, etc, - all murderers of millions of people

Respectfully - IMHO.