On Tuesday evening (Feb. 16), President Joe Biden spoke at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee about human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party. His comments were condemned as an “understatement” of criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
At the event, Biden said, “I’m not going to speak out against what he [Xi Jinping] has done to Hong Kong, to the Uighurs, to western China and to Taiwan, and I’m not going to speak out against what he [Xi Jinping] has said about one China …….” While Biden has said that he must speak out and let China (the Communist Party) face “consequences” for its actions, he then said that Xi understands this. At the same Time, he excused Xi, saying, “Culturally, [each] leader has his or her own different norms to follow.”
Biden’s “different norms” argument against Xi was immediately condemned by many. Critics argued that Biden’s criticism of the Chinese Communist Party made too much of an understatement of the situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, before leaving office, defined China’s persecution of the Uighurs in Xinjiang as a “crime against humanity” and “genocide.
Biden just recently spoke with Xi Jinping by phone and said Xi is now focused on maintaining a “unified, tightly controlled” China, and that this focus is guiding Xi’s power.
Boris Epshteyn, former adviser to President Trump‘s 2020 strategy, called Biden’s remarks above “terrible. He played a live clip of Biden’s speech to let people hear what he actually said.
Epshteyn also wrote.
- It was horrible.
- Why did Biden’s team put him on this occasion?
3, Bedingfield (Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director) and the White House press secretary did a horrible job.
The BBC recently published a report on allegations of forced labor and sexual abuse in the Xinjiang region, saying that there is a formal legal opinion in the U.K. that publicly states that there is a “very credible case” that Beijing is committing genocide against the Uighur people, which the Chinese (Communist Party) has denied.
Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said last month that the U.S. should “be prepared to act, and at the same time invest, in response to what China is doing to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the belligerence and threats it has shown to Taiwan.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier this month that he had phone calls with senior Chinese officials and mentioned the country’s behavior toward Uighurs, Hong Kongers and other issues, according to the Voice of America.
Blinken tweeted, “I made clear that the United States will defend our national interests, defend our democratic values, and hold Beijing accountable for its abuse of the international system.”
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