March 23, 2021 - Epoch Times
06:08
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| The first US-China meeting under the Biden administration got off to a rocky start on March 18, when the diplomats of both countries traded sharp criticism against each other's policies in front of reporters. | |
| The two-day meeting in Anchorage, Alaska was the first high-level in-person talks We'll also discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, | |
| including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion toward our allies. | |
| Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability. | |
| That's why they're not merely internal matters and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today. | |
| Sullivan said, A confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly seek to improve. | |
| Soon after, Yang, via an interpreter, said, It was my bad. | |
| When I entered this room, I should have reminded the US side of paying attention to its tone in our respective opening remarks, but I didn't. | |
| He accused the US side of speaking in a condescending way. | |
| Yang then lashed out at the democracy of the United States, which he referred to as a struggling democracy. | |
| He also criticized the poor treatment of minorities in the United States and the US foreign and trade policies. | |
| We believe that 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, he said. | |
| China will not accept unwarranted accusations from the U.S. side. | |
| Wang also blasted the United States slapping sanctions on Chinese officials over Beijing's rollback of democracy in Hong Kong a day before the talks. | |
| I don't think this is the way you should normally treat a guest. | |
| Blinken appeared to be annoyed by the tenor and length of the comments, which went on for more than 15 minutes. | |
| He said his impressions from speaking with world leaders and on his just-concluded trip to Japan and South Korea were entirely different from the Chinese position. | |
| I'm hearing deep satisfaction that the United States is back, that we're reengaged. | |
| I'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking. | |
| Following the heated exchanges, a senior administration official issued a statement criticizing the Chinese side for violating the meeting's protocol that each diplomat would limit his opening statement to about two minutes. | |
| Yang ended up speaking for more than 15 minutes. | |
| The Chinese delegation seems to have arrived intent on grandstanding. | |
| Focused on public theatrics and dramatics over substance, the official said. | |
| Exaggerated diplomatic presentations often are aimed at a domestic audience. | |
| Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, expressed his view on Twitter about the drama at the high-level meeting. | |
| In the past, China's diplomats were cunning, pretending to be friendly and responsible. | |
| Now, however, they are arrogant beyond belief. | |
| Yang Jiechi in Alaska just dropped the mask to show Beijing's true ugly face, Cheng wrote. | |
| In an email exchange with The Epoch Times, Cheng wrote, The regime is off the charts arrogant at the moment. | |
| Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been pushing the propaganda narrative that the East is rising and the West is declining. | |
| James J. Carafano, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at Washington-based think tank Heritage Foundation, told the Epoch Times that the CCP's aggressive display is typical of Beijing's wolf-warrior diplomacy, which has gained steam over the past year. | |
| Carafano pointed out that the CCP has recently drawn a lot of global blowback over various actions including its cover-up of the pandemic, crackdown in Hong Kong, as well as threats posed by Chinese technology such as Huawei. | |
| Their response to that blowback is to try to bluster their way through it, Carafano said. | |
| If the US administration expected them to walk in the door and play nice, I think that was pretty naive. | |
| Carafano said the Chinese diplomats' remarks should help the Biden administration recognize that there is no room for cooperation with the CCP. The reality is on all the key issues. | |
| China and the US are at very different places. | |
| And the healthiest, most constructive thing is to recognize that, he said. | |
| Similarly, Chang also criticized the Biden administration's expressed willingness to cooperate with China where possible, such as on climate change and nuclear non-proliferation. | |
| Unfortunately, Biden has yet to realize that communists to China and the democratic United States cannot coexist over the long term, Chang said. | |
| Republican Senator Rick Scott from Florida told the Epoch Times that he was not surprised that the meeting didn't go well. | |
| Communist China is our enemy, plain and simple, and cannot be trusted. | |
| The Biden administration cannot appease General Secretary Xi. | |
| They must stay strong and be clear that the United States will not waver in its commitment to human rights and the protection of our national security, he said. | |
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