Team Biden has been talking loudly about China, but so far Beijing has been more shameless than ever on all fronts, bullying Hong Kong and Taiwan while pretending to suspect the United States gave birth to the deadly coronavirus.
“Last night I was on the phone with Xi Jinping for two hours straight,” President Biden revealed Thursday, calling his conversation with the Chinese president “a good one.” (Still waiting for an initial call to US ally Israel.)
The White House says Biden has filed a litany of complaints with Xi: “are fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unfair economic practices, the crackdown in Hong Kong, the atrocities in Xinjiang and the increasingly assertive actions in the region, too. against Taiwan. ” They also “exchanged views on countering the COVID-19 pandemic and the shared challenges of global health security, climate change and preventing weapons proliferation.”
Hours before the call, Biden announced a Pentagon task force to recommend answers to the Chinese military’s “growing challenges”.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly told lawmakers that China is “the greatest long-term national security threat to the United States.” Yes, do you think?
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, since Beijing destroyed the evidence long ago), China’s Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin seized the opportunity to again accuse Washington of unleashing the deadly virus, calling on America to be “open and transparent” and “to invite WHO experts to the US to conduct research and inspection in the field of origin tracing.”
That follows his colleague Hua Chunying’s demand last month that Uncle Sam “open the biology lab in Fort Detrick, provide greater transparency on things like the more than 200 overseas biolabs” and “invite WHO experts” to the country.
The communist regime showed its own disdain for openness last week by withdrawing bail for pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces false accusations of “foreign conspiracy” under the new national security law, which could mean life. Meanwhile, Carrie Lam, Beijing’s puppet leader, confirmed that the mainland now rejects dual sovereignty so that the many residents with British overseas passports cannot get British consular assistance.
Beijing continues to plague Taiwan as well. Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, it spent a weekend sending dozens of fighters and bombers into Taiwanese airspace, servicing the breaches on an almost daily basis. A Reuters analysis of satellite imagery also exposed China’s “relentless campaign of sand dredging, which often invades Taiwan-controlled waters” in an attempt to divert the island’s defenses and preserve the livelihoods of the residents of a series of Taipei-controlled islands. ruin.
Nor have the communists stopped torturing civilians. Biden’s State Department said reported “atrocities” such as the systematic rape of Uyghur women in Beijing concentration camps “shock the conscience and face dire consequences.”
Biden’s team talks the right conversation. We look forward to seeing it actually have “serious consequences” for all of Xi’s horrors.