Yang Jiechi, the highest-ranking diplomat in the Communist Party of China (CPC), delivered a video address via the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations on Monday night (Feb. 1), the first Time the CPC has sent a member of the CPC Central Committee’s Politburo to deliver a public speech to the United States since President Biden took office two weeks ago.
Yang Jiechi’s speech on Monday night was delivered via Zoom, which was teased by American journalists as the worst news video ever because of the extremely poor signal and several interruptions in between; other netizens seriously suggested that Yang should change to a VPN software, thus mocking the CCP’s use of firewalls to block foreign Internet.
Yang’s speech was a rehash of the CCP’s Foreign Ministry statement, repeating the CCP’s usual positions, such as the so-called “mutual respect and win-win cooperation,” and referring to those who do not want to be pressured as “respecting internal affairs.
Yang Jiechi expressed his expectation that after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, he would promote a return to a predictable and constructive track in U.S.-China relations, while emphasizing that Taiwan is a red line for the Chinese Communist Party and that the U.S. side should implement its commitment to the U.S.-China Joint Communiqué and abide by the “One China Principle”. In addition to Taiwan, Yang also mentioned the issues of Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, and asked the U.S. to stop exerting pressure.
Yang also lashed out at the former Trump administration’s China Policy and the U.S. hawks in particular, calling it a strategic miscalculation and the old thinking of a zero-sum game that is doomed to failure.
Yang Jiechi called on China and the United States to restore their embassies abroad, think tanks, higher Education institutions, media, local and corporate contacts, and also hoped that the Biden Administration would lift its policy of restricting mainland Chinese students in the United States and mainland Chinese media in the United States, as well as lifting the closure of Confucius Institutes and punishing Chinese companies.
Westerners on the Internet chortled as if Yang believed that if he blamed everything on Trump, then Biden would magically eliminate many of the Trump Administration‘s past policies toward China.
Apparently, the organizer, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, feared that netizens would have negative comments on Yang’s speech and closed the comment section under Youtube from the beginning. Moreover, after the speech, the organizer arranged an unrecorded, off-the-record question-and-answer session between concerned members and Yang.
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations describes itself as a U.S. non-governmental organization that aims to promote the development of U.S.-China relations and have a positive impact on the world; it was founded in 1966. Many of its members are former U.S. government officials, such as Henry Alfred Kissinger and Maurice R. Greenberg, old friends of the Chinese Communist Party.
China hopes to work with Biden on Epidemic and climate change
Yang Jiechi’s speech also mentioned that the two sides could cooperate in areas such as fighting epidemics, economic recovery and climate change.
The Wall Street Journal previously cited sources familiar with the matter as saying that Beijing is pushing for Yang Jiechi to travel to the United States to meet with senior staffers of new President Joe Biden and discuss future summits between the two leaders in an effort to restart the troubled U.S.-China relationship.
Beijing has reportedly been proposing Yang Jiechi’s trip to Washington since last December, hoping that Yang would send a signal to Washington that, unlike the Trump administration, Yang would consider Biden’s policy focus on climate change and the epidemic, and would focus on these new foci of U.S.-China cooperation, as well as facilitate an initial meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping.
But the Chinese Embassy in Washington denied that this was the case.
A Chinese official was quoted in the China Daily report as saying it was crucial for Xi to resume working relations with the U.S. president as he tries to ensure a smooth development over the next two years (in China’s economy and politics) as he prepares to serve his unprecedented third term. He could face criticism within his party if he does not handle relations with the United States well.
New Secretary of State: Communist China Poses Most Significant Challenge to U.S.
Docking with Yang Jiechi is new U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He has repeatedly said that the Chinese Communist Party is the biggest challenge to the United States, but that there is still room for cooperation between the United States and China in areas such as climate change.
Biden’s chief medical adviser Fauci has confirmed that he will discuss outbreak prevention and control with Chinese Communist Party medical adviser Zhong Nanshan.
In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Blinken said that despite the arrival on the scene in Wuhan, China, of investigators sent by the World health Organization (WHO) to investigate the source of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19, the Chinese Communist Party virus), Beijing’s performance in allowing experts access to the site where the virus was found is still “far below par.
There is no doubt that China (the CCP), more than any other country, poses the most significant challenge to us, but it is a complex challenge. There is a confrontational aspect to this relationship, and of course there is a competitive aspect, and there is also something that can be cooperative,” he said. he said. “But whether we are dealing with any of these aspects of the relationship, we have to be able to approach China (the Chinese Communist Party) from a position of strength, not weakness.
On many fronts, from trade and technology to the CCP’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic to territory and human rights, the Trump administration has spent the past four years reversing the customary Perception of the U.S. political and business community’s engagement policy with China over the past several decades, that economic liberalization would lead to a more democratic China. That idea is now widely believed to be false.
Trump has also imposed tariffs on tens of millions of Chinese exports, sending U.S.-China relations to an all-time low in decades.
J. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategic policy at the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, DC-based think tank, told the Epoch Times that former President Trump’s greatest achievement was that he “revolutionized the U.S. strategy for dealing with communist China.
The Trump administration’s policy toward the Chinese Communist Party is based on the principle of “distrust + confirmation. Outsiders believe that the Biden administration has just taken office, and how it handles relations with the CCP will be crucial to the future of the United States.
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