The first high-level U.S.-China talks began with a heated debate and ended on a low note in the Alaskan capital of Anchorage on March 19. The Communist Party’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, went on a rampage in his opening remarks, saying things that would not normally appear in a traditional diplomatic setting. It drew bitter criticism from Republican members of the U.S. Congress, who said that Chinese Communist Party officials lack self-awareness and that only strength and action can make the Chinese Communist Party understand.
On Thursday and Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Alaska. Blinken and Yang Jiechi opened their meeting with a public exchange of words and heated rhetoric.
At the beginning of the U.S.-China talks on Thursday night, Yang Jiechi spoke for 17 minutes out of the original two-minute opening remarks each; his American counterpart was shocked by the bullying behavior of the Chinese representative, and Yang Jiechi blurted out, “You are not qualified to say in front of China that you are talking to China from a position of strength,” and “Are we eating foreigners? Yang Jiechi also said that “you are not qualified to talk to China from a position of strength in front of China” and “do we suffer less from the foreigners”, which are not normally found in traditional diplomatic occasions.
U.S. officials said the Chinese officials were putting on a dramatic show and for a mainland Chinese audience.
Rep. Micharl McCaul (R-Ariz.), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted Thursday evening criticizing the actions of Chinese Communist Party officials.
McCaul wrote that the CCP’s behavior exposes itself as a regime that lacks self-awareness and projects its weakness and cruelty onto others… Clearly the CCP has no intention of changing its behavior.
“The only thing the CCP can understand is strength and action,” McCall said. McCaul said.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Texas) said Friday that the Anchorage incident showed that “the U.S.-China relationship doesn’t need to be ‘reset,'” (and that the so-called “reset relationship “) as Beijing has wanted since Biden took office.
Blackburn told the Epoch Times in an email, “Just as the Chinese delegation refuses to abide by the agreed-upon rules of the conference, Beijing refuses to abide by the rules-based international order.”
Voice of America reports that on Friday, Republican Congressman Andy Barr (R-Texas) told a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to discuss the Indo-Pacific strategy that “there are moral differences between the United States and the Chinese [Communist Party] government.”
Barr asked former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Randy Schriver, who testified at the hearing, “At the U.S.-China meeting in Alaska yesterday (March 18), the Chinese (Communist Party of China) delegation tried to portray the United States as hypocritical because we directly raised some international concerns about the Chinese Communist Party. While I know the U.S. has had a very difficult year and we have our own problems, I do want to ask you a few questions to highlight the differences, the moral differences between the U.S. and China. Is the United States currently ethnically cleansing its own people in state-run detention camps? Yes or no?”
“No,” Shreveport replied.
“Is the United States currently stealing intellectual property from companies doing business here and then providing that technology to our military? Yes or no?” Barr continued to ask.
“Certainly no federally supported ones,” Shreveport said.
“Is the United States imprisoning people who are speaking out for democracy and human rights? Yes or no?”
“No.”
“We are not. As we discuss the way forward in the Indo-Pacific, I want to emphasize these differences, and we have to make it clear to our partners and allies that it has to be morally clear what China (the Chinese Communist Party) is like and what kind of behavior they have,” Barr continued.
“Frankly, the moral superiority of the Western way, the Western approach to open free and democratic societies, versus the closed communist police state, the Chinese Communist Party. I don’t think that’s racist rhetoric, it’s a statement about the challenges we face, it’s about taking a sober look at the problem.”
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Texas), a Republican congressman who is a hawk on the Chinese Communist Party, also tweeted Friday calling for a new strategy for the U.S. government to deal with the Chinese Communist challenge.
“The behavior of the Chinese (Communist Party) delegation is completely unacceptable.” Cotton said, “It’s Time for the Biden Administration to adopt a strategy to defeat China (CCP).”
On Friday, senior U.S. and Chinese officials continued in Anchorage, Alaska, to complete the final round of negotiations in the current talks. Experts say the talks show that U.S.-China tensions will be difficult to ease in the short term.
James Jay Carafano, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, told The Epoch Times that the aggressive attitude of the Chinese Communist Party in the run-up to the talks was a display of the same “War Wolf” diplomacy that it has been turning into over the past year. ” diplomacy over the past year.
Carafano said the remarks by Chinese (Communist Party of China) diplomats should help the Biden administration realize there is no room for cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party.
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