Team Biden has been talking harshly to China, but so far Beijing is more shameless than ever on all fronts, harassing Hong Kong and Taiwan while pretending to suspect the United States had given birth to the deadly coronavirus.
“Last night I was on the phone for two hours straight with Xi Jinping,” President Biden revealed on Thursday, calling his chat with the Chinese president “good conversation.” (Still waiting for a first call to Israel, a US ally).
The White House says Biden rejected a litany of complaints with Xi: “His fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unjust economic practices, repression in Hong Kong, atrocities in Xinjiang, and increasingly vindictive actions in the region , including those in Taiwan “. They also “exchanged views on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the shared challenges of global health security, climate change and the prevention of arms proliferation.”
Hours before the call, Biden announced a Pentagon task force to recommend responses to the Chinese army’s “growing challenges.”
According to reports, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told lawmakers that China poses “the greatest long-term national security threat to the United States.” Do you think so?
Beijing will do or say anything in its quest for power and influence. Last week, when a World Health Organization team announced what it had learned about COVID-19 in Wuhan (very little, as Beijing destroyed the tests a long time ago), Wang Wenbin of the Ministry of Health Chinese Foreign Minister seized the opportunity to re-accuse Washington of triggering the deadly virus, calling on the United States to be “open and transparent” and “invite WHO experts to the United States to conduct investigations and inspections on tracking of origin “.
This comes after last month’s demand from his colleague Hua Chunying that Uncle Sam “open the biological laboratory in Fort Detrick, give more transparency to issues such as his more than 200 bio-laboratories abroad” and ” invite WHO experts ”to the country.
The communist regime showed its own contempt for the opening last week, and revoked bail for Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper editor Jimmy Lai, who faces false charges of “foreign collusion.” under the new national security law, which could carry a life sentence. Meanwhile, Hong Kong leader Beijing puppet Carrie Lam confirmed that the mainland region now rejects dual sovereignty, so many residents with British overseas passports cannot obtain British consular assistance.
Beijing is still harassing Taiwan, too. Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, he spent a weekend sending dozens of fighters and bombers into Taiwanese airspace and has maintained the gaps almost daily. A Reuters analysis of satellite images also exposed China’s “relentless sand dredging campaign, which frequently entered Taiwan-controlled waters,” to try to distract the island nation’s defenses and ruin the media. of subsistence of residents of a number of islands controlled by Taipei.
Nor have the Communists stopped torturing civilians. Biden State Department said “atrocities,” such as the systematic rape of Uighur women held in Beijing’s concentration camps, “shocked the conscience and must have serious consequences.”
Biden’s team speaks correctly. We hope to see it really produce “serious consequences” for all of Xi’s horrors.