This was a test of how solidly the Biden administration's foreign policy is shaping up, an encounter with perhaps the most challenging actor on the world stage for the US. And China ate the US team's lunch:
Democrat President Joe Biden faced significant backlash on Friday following a meeting that his administration had with Chinese communist officials on U.S. soil, a meeting that was widely panned as tense, chaotic, and disastrous.
The meeting in Alaska came at the request of the Biden administration and was their attempt at trying to restart bilateral relations with China. Instead, after addressing some issues that the administration had with China, China openly mocked and attacked the U.S.
Chinese officials told Biden’s administration that the U.S. “does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength” and that “whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion.”
China analyst Gordon Chang responded to the meeting by saying that China did “not come to Alaska to talk to the Biden administration.”
“They came to dictate,” Chang said. “China’s arrogant and insecure leaders are at their most dangerous. Deterrence is failing. Biden’s most urgent task is to reestablish it.”
You can be sure that North Korea and Iran read the tea leaves.
Blinken et al need to do some retooling.
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