The Biden administration’s first high-level talks with the Chinese Communist Party ended on March 19. Outsiders described the talks as opening with saber-rattling and hostility between the U.S. and China. But Apollo.com chief commentator Wang Duran has a different view. The U.S. State Department released verbatim statements from both sides, while the Chinese Foreign Ministry only released statements from Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi.
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China-US opening saber rattling! The U.S. side boldly arranged to hide signals
If relations between the two sides were icy before the meeting, the first round of meetings on March 18 brought a strong smell of gunpowder. The U.S. side rarely invited reporters and cameras into the venue, and the two sides even broke out in a heated argument during the initial warm-up speech.
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, representing the United States, demonstrated a position by inviting cameras and reporters into the room to capture their war of words with the Chinese Communist Party representatives. -They abandoned the subtlety and subtlety that traditional diplomacy demands.
The meeting was scheduled to open with a two-minute statement from each side, after which the media would leave, according to reports. But in practice, the two sides quickly overstepped the boundaries of what an opening exchange should be. The Chinese Communist Party accused the U.S. delegates of being “condescending,” while the U.S. side criticized the Chinese delegation for “trying to make a spectacle of itself.
In his opening remarks, Blinken said the Chinese Communist Party’s actions threaten global stability and order, and that “we will raise topics of deep concern to us, including what the Chinese Communist Party is doing in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States and economic coercion against our allies.
He said, “These actions all threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability. That’s why they are not just internal matters, and why we have an obligation to raise them here today,” he said, opening by challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s frequent use of “internal matters” as an excuse for refusing to discuss sensitive topics.
Sullivan noted that the United States does not want to provoke conflict, but welcomes fierce competition, and “we will stand up for our principles, for our people, for our friends.
Yang Jiechi, the Communist Party’s top foreign affairs official, attacked ethnic Africans as being “slaughtered” by Americans for too long, and the U.S. criticized the Communist Party’s human rights record and accused it of cyber espionage as “hypocritical. The U.S. criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights record and accused it of cyber espionage as “hypocritical”; and said the U.S. is the global “Cyber Attack champion” and that Blinken and others “have no right to criticize others” in this regard.
He also said the U.S. uses military power and financial superiority to oppress other countries, abusing national security to threaten the future of international trade, and that Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan are integral parts of China’s territory, and that the Chinese Communist Party firmly opposes U.S. involvement in its domestic affairs.
Chinese Communist Party Foreign Minister Wang Yi also struck an offensive posture asking rhetorically, “Has the United States made up its mind to win a hand in dealing with the CCP?” “This, of course, is a miscalculation of the situation and only shows the vulnerability and weakness within the U.S. It will not sway the CCP from its position or solutions on these issues.”
The Sydney Morning Herald featured a photo showing Sullivan gesturing for a camera to remain in the room during the heated argument between the two sides. The report concluded by quoting a senior Biden administration official as saying that the Chinese Communist Party officials were “making a spectacle of themselves.
Chinese Communist Party official media “pumped up” the mainland public as the “War Wolves” performed for the domestic audience
The U.S. State Department published a full verbatim transcript of the U.S.-China talks on its website on Friday (19), recording in full the statements made by both sides at the first round of talks. The official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) also contains news of the talks, but the speeches of Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi are included throughout, except for the opening sentence “After the U.S. side delivered its opening remarks,” mainland netizens cannot find a single statement from the U.S. side.
Photo shows Yang Jiechi (first from left), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (second from right) leaving the meeting.
Immediately after the above opening remarks, the Chinese Communist Party’s media made high-profile propaganda in the mainland. Official media such as the Communist Party’s Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and China Daily were the first to publish the remarks of Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi.
Immediately afterwards, the Internet in mainland China showed what it called “mass outrage,” and nationalist and anti-American sentiment instantly rose. As of this writing, the topic of the U.S.-China talks topped the Weibo hot search list, with 4.4 million hits.
Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s Global Times, posted two posts in a row on his Weibo account, saying, “This fight in Alaska today is really a very good fight.” “The U.S.-China dialogue in Alaska will likely go down in history.” The China Daily said on its WeChat public website, “1901 and 2021 are both Xinchu years, but China is not the same China.”
The People’s Daily posted more than a dozen posts on its official microblogging site, biting back at “the U.S. side for seriously overstaying its welcome” and claiming that the U.S. was “unreasonably attacking and accusing China’s domestic and foreign policies and stirring up disputes.” “The U.S. is not qualified to speak to China from above”, “The Chinese don’t eat this”, and so on. The number of comments on these posts is in the thousands, if not tens of thousands.
“Wang Dan, the leader of the June 4 Movement, said on Facebook that Yang Jiechi’s wolf-like speech has made the pinkies high again. If the CPC was really tough enough, it should have announced the cancellation of the talks after the announcement of new sanctions the day before the US talks, but it still came dutifully.
Weibo netizen “花开富貴奋发” said, “There are many performance elements and no substantive meaning to the country.”
Taiyuan international relations scholar Zhang Yong told Radio Free Asia that it has been proven many times that the tougher Chinese Communist Party officials are with the U.S., the more they can stir up anti-American sentiment among the people. He said, “Being tough on the outside world has also become the CCP’s political correctness. In this case, just show the party and outside that we are tough and, in Xi Jinping‘s words, be men. This has been interpreted by mouthpieces as China being strong. For China to talk to the U.S., no matter how it ends, he has a set of explanations.”
Outcome of U.S.-China Talks: Biden Cabinet May Ease Visa Restrictions for Chinese Citizens?
Biden administration officials said after Thursday’s (March 18) talks between U.S. and Chinese officials that they are open to easing some visa restrictions imposed on Chinese citizens under Trump, but not to easing tariffs and sanctions on Communist Party officials as demanded by China.
The second meeting of the day was fairly low-key after the top brass from the U.S. and China met face-to-face for 2 days in Alaska starting Thursday, after the first session was caught in a hard fight in front of the cameras right from the start.
According to a Biden administration briefing received Thursday night, a senior official said the day’s two sessions were “substantive, serious and direct,” with talks lasting well beyond the two hours originally scheduled.
The main thing they wanted to do was make their respective domestic audiences feel like they were being tough,” said James Berger, a partner in the international regulatory and compliance group at law firm JLG. In the U.S., Biden wants to show that he still defends American workers and defends what Americans consider to be human rights values, among other issues. For China, they may want to show as firm a position as possible on foreign policy issues like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and on those trade policy issues that have been pursued under the Trump Administration.”
Yu Maochun: Xi Jinping Makes Serious Miscalculation of World Situation
Yu Maochun, former chief China Policy planning adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, told Radio Free Asia, “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’s there for all to see.”
The CCP representative did not come with sincerity to solve the problem, but only wanted to use the camera to attack the U.S. He heavily criticized, “China blames 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 Maochun further analyzed, “Xi Jinping speaks of this east rise and west fall, like Mao Zedong did back then, a serious misestimation of the world situation.” “Previously, the War Wolf diplomacy was on a relatively low level, like the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, which may represent the grassroots officials and the masses of people eating melons, but now it is spoken by the highest level Chinese diplomat, reflecting the strategic strength of China. I think it will only help China’s image in the international arena by isolating it even more, not at all, and it also shows that his (the Chinese Communist Party’s) diplomatic methods are very rigid.”
Yu Maochun also believes that the Chinese government has tried every possible way to “sow discord” between the previous and current U.S. administrations, and had expected the Biden administration to fully repudiate the Trump administration’s China policy, “It seems (the CCP’s ploy) has failed, and now it is still a bit annoyed.”
But Apollo.com chief commentator Wang Duran had a different view.
Blinken was deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration, Wang Duran said. Email records released by the U.S. State Department in 2019 show that Blinken had a close relationship with Biden’s son, Hunter.
Not only is Blinken connected to the Biden Family, which is suspected of being paid by the Chinese Communist Party, but he himself comes from WestExec Advisors, a Washington-based strategic consulting firm with a dubious background and expertise in opening up the Chinese market. The firm’s website describes its business as including “managing China-related risks in an era of strategic competition” and providing strategic advice to U.S. companies operating in the Chinese market.
The Biden administration is under pressure from both Anti-Communist public opinion in the United States and the constraints of some anti-communist members of Congress, and Xi Jinping needs to take a tough stance to show the people at Home that, despite the saber-rattling in the first round, the key is to see the subsequent actions.
Top NATO Scientist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Spying for Communist China
A senior Estonian scientist working for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been found to be a spy employed by China’s military intelligence agency, U.S. news site The Daily Beast reported Friday (March 19). The man was sentenced last week in Estonia to three years in prison.
Aleksander Toots, deputy director of Estonia’s National Security Agency (KAPO), said Kuters was recruited there in 2018 by the Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. Also recruited by China was an Estonian. Both were arrested by Estonian authorities on Sept. 9, 2020. The report said Kutters himself confessed to his intelligence activities for China.
Japanese LCD maker announces closure of Suzhou plant at the end of the year
Japanese LCD maker Kyocera recently announced that it will close its production plant in Suzhou this November. It is reported that seven hundred and forty people will be laid off at that time. However, Kyocera’s factory in Dongguan still maintains normal operations.
Jiangsu Kunshan High-Tech Industrial Park, a business leader Wang Ning said in an interview with Radio Free Asia, the future will be more Japanese companies out of China: “Japanese planning to leave, not a year, two years, and The Japanese do this kind of thing is not to say today ready to go, tomorrow, they are going to plan a long time, of course, with the current international trend is still relevant. He will not be like us (Chinese) so pat on the head on the decision, he decided, will not say this month’s decision, the next month to go, once decided, the implementation process will be very long. If it’s the Koreans, they make decisions very quickly.”
Over the past three years, many display manufacturers have withdrawn from China, including Samsung Electronics, Omron, Nitto Denko and Epson and other internationally renowned brands.
Delta prepares to cut 90 percent of mainland China workforce
Delta (2308) Chairman Hai Yingjun said in an interview with the Financial Times that Delta aims to reduce the company’s direct employment in mainland China by 90 percent, and is now on track to have cut its manpower by 40 percent.
Hai Yingjun told the Financial Times that even without a U.S.-China trade war, mainland China is no longer a good place for manufacturing. He cited the example of rising wages and high staff turnover rate in mainland China; while Delta is building four large factories in India, Hai Yingjun said, in comparison, the stability of Indian employees is relatively high.
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