The U.S.-China talks, with Yang Jiechi forcing his speaking Time, were seriously overtime.
The U.S.-China high-level talks ended at noon on March 19 without a joint statement or a press conference. What left a deep impression on the outside world was the “wolf-like” performance of Yang Jiechi, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee, during the talks, which Yu Maochun, former chief China Policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State, said was a big failure of the CPC’s diplomacy.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Yu said that the Chinese Communist Party officials broke the rules and spent more than 10 minutes attacking the United States, showing that the Communist Party representatives did not come to the table with good faith, but only wanted to use the cameras to attack the United States.
He said, “The Chinese Communist Party (officials) spoke for ten minutes unruly and rude, and the diplomatic officials did not have the posture of diplomats. This is not the first time, it is obvious to everyone. China (CCP) has blamed the U.S. for all the crux of Sino-U.S. relations and has no sincerity to do its own introspection, which is a big failure in (CCP) diplomacy.”
Yu believes that the CCP is so arrogant because it has “made a serious error in its estimation of the world situation.
Yu Maochun said, “In the past, the War Wolf diplomacy was on relatively low-level people, like the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, which might represent the grassroots officials and the masses of people eating melons, but now it is said by the highest-level diplomat of the CCP, which reflects the strategic strength of the CCP. I think it will only be more isolating for the CCP’s image internationally, it won’t help at all, and it shows that he [the CCP] is very rigid in his diplomatic approach.”
Yu Maochun also affirmed the Biden administration’s continuity in its policy toward the CCP and its strengthening of ties with allies to deal with the CCP’s challenges. “China is not a democracy and rules by personal will. They like to blame fluctuations in policy toward the CCP on the philosophy of one individual. For example, the last administration (which the CCP blamed) blamed Pompeo. They fail to see that the underlying principle stems from what the CCP did and also according to American public opinion. So no matter what administration comes to power in the United States, the tone (of policy toward the CCP) will be pretty much the same.”
Currently, there is strong bipartisan agreement in the U.S. on the CCP.
At the 19th hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, former U.S. administration officials and lawmakers from both parties showed strong consistency in their policies toward the CCP. The topic of the nearly two-hour hearing was on uniting Indo-Pacific allies and adjusting strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan.
Randall Schriver, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs under former President Trump, and Richard Nathan Haass, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department under George W. Bush Jr. both expressed positive views on the continuity of the Biden Administration‘s policy toward the CCP.
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Texas), a Republican, expressed outrage at the unreasonableness of Communist diplomats at the U.S.-China talks. He said, “While I know that the United States has had a very difficult year and we have our own problems. But I want to highlight the moral differences between the U.S. and China. Does the U.S. have internment camps that are being used to ethnically cleanse its own population? Has the United States been stealing intellectual property from companies that do business here and providing it to the military? Has the U.S. imprisoned people who advocate for democracy and human rights?”
On March 18, at a meeting of senior U.S. and Chinese officials, Yang Jiechi made a 17-minute accusation against the United States, which some commentators believe went far beyond the diplomatic bottom line.
According to current affairs commentator Zhang Tianliang, Yang Jiechi’s remarks were prepared, not improvised, but for the propaganda needs of the mainland.
The Chinese Communist Party’s official media, Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily, made a big deal of it, and the video of Yang Jiechi’s speech was widely circulated on the Chinese Internet, but the words of the U.S. side criticizing the Chinese Communist Party were cut out.
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