Yang Jiechi greets then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at Beijing Capital International Airport on Aug. 17, 2011, during his visit to China.
On Monday night (Feb. 1), the U.S. NGO National Committee on U.S.-China Relations held a meeting at which Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Working Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered a video address. But U.S. expert Tom Rogan pointed out that Yang Jiechi’s speech revealed more lies.
In his speech, Yang Jiechi called for “more cooperation” between the U.S. and China on a range of issues, including cybersecurity, but Rogan, a prominent foreign policy commentator for the Washington Examiner, noted that Yang Jiechi’s statement summed up the absurdity of his speech, saying hopes to restart relations with the United States, but the arrogance and hypocrisy of his message will only surprise the White House.
Logan noted that in his speech, Yang Jiechi put the standard Chinese Communist Party deception on full display. First, he called for “peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. This “win-win” is Beijing’s standard “snake-oil salesman” scam for Americans. The Chinese Communist Party wants to undermine and suppress American interests at every turn. Of course, the Chinese Communist Party denies this, as Yang Jiechi claimed, “The Chinese Communist Party has no intention of challenging or replacing the United States in the world.
Measured against the realities of the CCP’s foreign, economic and security policies, the facts are clear, Logan said, that the CCP seeks a world in which a feudal mercantilist order dominated by Beijing replaces a liberal international order dominated by the United States. Yet Yang Jiechi and his Communist brethren are clearly worried. While Yang Jiechi was attacking the Trump administration for “strategic miscalculation,” he knew that then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken had praised Trump for taking a tougher stance against the Communist Party.
Logan further explained that in order to coerce the Biden Administration into returning to the U.S. policy of appeasement, Yang drew “a red line that cannot be crossed. Yang demanded that Washington not interfere with the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the Hong Kong issue and the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Logan noted that Yang’s similarly silly remarks were numerous, such as his assertion that “the Chinese Communist Party has never interfered in the international affairs of the United States” (despite its theft of hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. intellectual property and efforts to influence U.S. elections); his demand that the United States end its supervision of Chinese students on U.S. soil (many of whom are intelligence agents and operatives); and his request that the United States end its supervision of Chinese students on U.S. soil (many of whom are intelligence agents and operatives). An end to suspicion of Chinese Communist technology companies such as huawei (which are actually intelligence collectors).
Yang Jiechi made clear that if Washington is willing to appreciate the CCP’s intentions on these issues, then new cooperation on trade and climate change will follow. Rogan warned against underestimating such rhetoric, especially on climate change, where Beijing rightfully believes it can win the U.S.’s undying gratitude with high commitment and low investment.
Yang Jiechi also continued his speech by participating in a private Q&A session with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Rogan questioned why the Q&A was held privately in a non-public setting.
However, Rogan was optimistic about Yang Jiechi’s high level of stupidity, saying it gave the United States hope and that President Biden, Secretary Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan would see Yang Jiechi’s speech for what it was, and that his black comedy only continued to prove the deceitfulness of the Chinese Communist Party.
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