Biden’s nominee for national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said he is very concerned about the U.S.-China policy of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his national security adviser nominee.
On Fox News’ “Life Liberty & Levin” on Sunday night (Dec. 20), host Mark Levin said Biden is “the wrong person at the wrong time, [and] a hundred thousand miles away from being able to create and lead U.S. foreign policy” because his family “has been bought in many ways by the Chinese Communist government.
Grinnell, who was interviewed on the show, replied, “I’m very concerned not only about Biden and his family, their past reaction to the Chinese (Communist Party), but also the people around him.” “Look at Jake Sullivan, he’s really trying to compliment Beijing.”
Sullivan is currently Biden’s senior policy adviser and was nominated by Biden as national security adviser on Nov. 23. He was a top aide to Hillary Clinton and also served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration (2013-2014).
Sullivan, who has criticized President Trump‘s China policy and called for closer cooperation with Beijing, said in a 2017 interview with the Wall Street Journal that he opposes containing Communist China and advocates a middle path that “encourages the rise of China through an open, fair, rules-based regional order” and “creates a more favorable environment for China. He also wanted to “create an environment more conducive to the peaceful and positive rise of China.
In December of the same year, he appeared on the Communist Party-controlled news outlet China Global Television Network (CGTN) to criticize Trump’s policies in Israel.
In a co-authored article in the September/October 2019 issue of Foreign Affairs, he said that “despite the many differences between the two countries, both sides need to be prepared to live with each other as one great power.”
The article, titled “Competition Without Catastrophe,” worried that the Trump administration’s “competition” could turn into confrontation.
In August, Sullivan also talked about what foreign policy would look like if Biden were elected.
“(Biden) would seek to compete on advantages, but he would also seek to work with China and any other country on issues that advance the basic tenets of U.S. foreign policy.” He said in an interview.
Biden himself did not respond to the recent arrests of Lai Chi-ying and other Hong Kong pro-democracy figures, and Sullivan only tweeted last week that he was concerned about the “continued arrest and imprisonment of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures,” but did not mention names. In a Dec. 18 editorial, the Wall Street Journal said Xi should be pleased with the vague response from Biden at this point.
Grenell stressed that the United States should recognize the CCP as a crisis and a real danger.
“We have to be more proactive in realizing that China (the CCP) is the crisis, but too many Democrats are trying to tell us that Russia is the crisis.” He said, “We must realize with certainty that China (the CCP) has been playing us. It’s time to say this fact out loud: the international community has failed; the United States has failed to recognize that they (the CCP) are a clear and present danger.”
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