Wang Yi’s conditions, Cui Tiankai’s red line, what did Yu Maochun say?

On February 22, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai shouted at the Biden administration on the same occasion. Wang Yi asked Biden to reverse Trump‘s former North Korea policy and demanded that the U.S. abandon tariffs, lift sanctions on Chinese companies, and release Chinese Communist technology companies. And Cui Tiankai stressed that issues related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet are “red lines that must be held fast”. In response, Yu Maochun, former Secretary of State Pompeo‘s China Policy staffer, told the Chinese and British media, including Free Asia, the following.

According to a report by Free Asia and other media, Yu Maochun said, “Wang Yi said this without any bottom line, without any logic. The problem China is facing now is not just that the United States is not getting along with China, but that China is not getting along with the whole world, so China does not have many friends in the world now. It is not fundamentally justified to put this on the head of the United States, which is a thief crying out for a thief.

The Chinese government has no bottom line in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Taiwan, and it has no bottom line at all. But the international community has set up a lot of red lines, and claimed that “as the international community, we do not allow you to say anything, otherwise you are disrespecting our Chinese Communist Party, you are crossing our red line. This is actually bullying, and the world has to wake up to the fact that we can’t approve of such red lines from the CCP.

Yu Maochun also argued that Beijing‘s “red line is not based on international law, nor is it based on international conventions, and in fact China has signed on to all of these, but it never enforces them.” Therefore, “it is not an intervention in China’s internal affairs, it is not an intervention in China’s national sovereignty, because one cannot kill others and commit genocide in the name of sovereignty. Since 1940, the international community has set such rules. This is what I know about the red line of the Chinese Communist Party. The international community should have the red lines it should have, and we must demand that the CCP go and abide by those red lines.”