Biden Crashes Down the Stairs of United States-China Reset By Finian Cunningham!
(2023-06-23 at 03:34:01 )

Biden Crashes Down the Stairs of United States-China Reset By Finian Cunningham!

Forked-tongued American politicians should be repudiated until Washington,D.C. actually begins to behave as a law-abiding entity!

Joe Bidens penchant for tripping over his feet - and verbally - could not have happened at a most unfortunate moment. Mocking Chinas president as a "dictator" just when his administration attempted a big reset in United States-China relations has to rank as one of President Bidens clumsiest gaffes.

A day after United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China in a high-profile attempt to mend frayed relations, Biden kicked those efforts in the teeth by telling a crowd in California that Chinese President Xi was a dictator.

Beijing responded furiously, denouncing the American presidents "extreme" disrespect and lack of etiquette. Chinas anger is no doubt reinforced because it showed magnanimity in receiving Blinken and affording him a top-level diplomatic meeting with President Xi Jinping.

President Bidens latest gaffe is made all the more absurd because he was referring to the incident of a Chinese weather balloon that had strayed over United States territory in February, which Biden ordered an F-16 fighter jet to shoot down with a sidewinder missile. Biden is still claiming that it was a Chinese spy balloon even though the Washington Post had reported earlier that it was a meteorological aircraft blown off course whose errant trans-Pacific course was being monitored in real-time by the Americans.

That crass overreaction by Biden resorting to a military attack over a balloon sent United States-China relations into a further tailspin. Blinken canceled a visit to Beijing in February in what was a cheap protest stunt against an alleged Chinese breach of United States national security. His trip last weekend was meant to signal a new reset in relations. There was much talk during the United States diplomats visit about improving communications between Washington,D.C. and Beijing to avoid a military confrontation.

Then there came the crash, bang, wallop from President Bidens strange outburst insulting his Chinese counterpart.

During the California fundraising foray this week, Biden claimed that Xi knew nothing about the "spy balloon", implying that he was being kept in the dark by Chinese intelligence officials as befitting a hapless "dictator".

In reality, it looks like President Biden is the one who is hopelessly benighted. Ordering the shoot-down of an errant balloon with million-dollar air-to-air missiles and to continue insisting that it was a spy vehicle shows an abject lack of judgment. Could anyone trust a balloon-popping commander-in-chief who has access to grabbing the nuclear football? This is Doctor Strangeloves twilight stuff. All the more frightening because it is real life, not a movie.

But on top of that, President Biden then goes on to gratuitously insult the Chinese leader.

Bidens loose tongue and legs at this frail stage in his half-century political career are beyond parody. Falling on the stairs of Air Force One and tripping over podiums is an embarrassing routine spectacle for this president.

His congenital bad manners of referring to Russian and Chinese leaders as "thugs", "killers" and "dictators" shows President Bidens low class as a person, as well as extreme hypocrisy for a politician who is responsible for causing millions of deaths from promoting United States criminal wars down through the decades.

One good thing, however, is the impeccable clarity that all this provides (if that were needed).

China - and Russia - by now know beyond doubt that Washington,D.C. cannot be trusted in anything it says. President Biden is just the decrepit embodiment of the treacherous and duplicitous politics inherent in Washington,D.C. It is blinded and stupefied, incapable of meaningful dialogue because of Washington,D.C.s insufferable delusions, its arrogance, hubris, and self-righteous propaganda. And its total addiction to war for fixing its corporate capitalist junkie economy!

Top United States diplomat Antony Blinken went on a mission to appease China with ostensible declarations of wanting to normalize relations, avoid confrontation and professing adherence to the One China policy with regard to abjuring Taiwans independence and recognizing the island territory as being under Chinas sovereign control. In other words, respecting international law.

Chinas leadership warily shook hands with Blinken and appeared to give him the benefit of doubt for a public reset in United States bilateral relations.

President Bidens subsequent rush to the brain and his rash, churlish words demonstrate that Washington,D.C. is not capable of adhering to decorum, decency and diplomacy, or anything for that matter, apart from a handrail on a staircase. And even that is unreliable.

After Mr. Blinkens smarmy visit to China, one can bet the farm that in the coming weeks there will be more provocative United States naval maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait; there will be more provocative United States multi-billion-dollar arms sales to Taiwan; and there will be more provocative United States political delegations ostentatiously traveling to Taipei in order to foment instability and the offensive notion of independence from China.

Thus, it is altogether better that Beijing does not waste time by engaging Washington,D.C. with disingenuous diplomacy. Forget smarmy, florid rhetoric about improving relations, and smiley handshakes. The only proof needed is deeds and practical compliance with already established legal treaties.

Washington,D.C. says it respects the One China policy and three legally binding treaties that it has signed with Beijing since 1979 on that. That should mean the United States ending all interference in Chinas sovereignty. No more arms sales to Taiwan and no more "freedom of navigation" maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait by United States warships.

It is a rather straightforward obligation that avoids ambiguity and equivocation. It is almost incredible that this has to be spelled out which illustrates just how rogue the United States is.

Moscow can make the same arguments and conclusions with regard to the United States-led NATO expansion up to its borders and the infiltration of Ukraine with NeoNazi proxies.

But here is the deplorable rub: the United States is agreement incapable, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has caustically noted. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also recently lamented the complete dearth of American political integrity, at least for the past few generations.

Joe Biden figuratively falling down the stairs of the United States-China reset attempts is the latest confirmation that forked-tongued American politicians should be repudiated until Washington,D.C. actually begins to behave as a law-abiding entity!

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