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On Thursday, Biden officials will participate in the administration's first face-to-face high-level meeting with their Beijing counterparts, in Anchorage. China's representatives are not coming to have meaningful discussions. They are coming to lecture Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
China goes to Alaska to dictate terms and interests to America "The Chinese are offering zero accommodations to the U.S.,"
said "a former defense official" to Foreign Policy. "They're offering only expectations for the U.S. side to change and no change on their part." That assessment looks consistent with the hardline tone that China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, took in his phone call with Blinken last month. Yang will be in Alaska with his subordinate, Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
In the past, Beijing's officials at meetings like this one would make concessions to Americans - or at least say they would - because they perceived the United States to be strong. Those days are gone. Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, now believes the balance of power will soon tip in his favor if it has not already. His propaganda line, expressed in a speech at the end of last year, is "
the East is rising and the West is declining."
This narrative directly serves his political interest, especially because it bolsters the claim that he's leading the country to historic success. Communist Party foreign policy has always been tightly tied to domestic political intrigue, but especially now with China's willful supremo. To make significant concessions to America would undermine that appearance of national strength - and threaten Xi's hold on power.
Americans, furthermore, do not understand the inherent hostility of the Communist Party, something evident in a declaration in 2019 of a "
people's war" against the U.S. How can Chinese officials openly accommodate a power announced to be an enemy? Compounding these problems, the Chinese regime at the moment neither respects nor fears America. Why should Beijing?
President Biden has already made unilateral concessions to China in a series of executive orders and other actions, such as his
lifting a ban on Chinese electrical equipment,
postponing rules against investments in China's military-linked companies, rejoining the Beijing-dominated World Health Organization, and
delaying prohibitions on Chinese apps. No surprise then that the Chinese elite think they don't have to make concessions to Biden to get what they want. As evident from the explosive November comments of Beijing academic Di Dongsheng, the Chinese
openly talk about owning the new president.
American officials are boxed in. Washington cannot make concessions to a regime that is, among other things, committing genocide and other crimes against humanity, is attempting to break apart other countries, is exercising dominion and control over the global commons. That Chinese regime is also conducting risky experiments to
create a new master race of Chinese. China, from all indications, is working on
pathogens to sicken only foreigners. Xi allowed the coronavirus to beyond his borders. His China steals somewhere on the order of a half trillion dollars of American intellectual property each year.
Even more fundamentally, there is no room for compromise on overarching issues. The United States defends the existing Western international system of competing sovereign states, and China's leaders are trying to replace it with worldwide Chinese rule. Wang Yi, in a landmark 2017
article in the Central Party School's Study Times, in effect argued for the abolition of state sovereignty, code for making everyone else China's subjects. Talking cannot dissolve this core difference.
In these circumstances, why should Blinken and Sullivan even bother going to Alaska? Perhaps they are making the effort because just about everyone wants the two powers to talk, and the Biden team undoubtedly does not want to appear intransigent. As Rand Corporation senior political scientist Scott Harold told me, Tokyo, Canberra, Taipei, and Delhi want Washington to commit itself to a "leading role in the region" but not make competition with China "the only framing that is relevant, because many of these actors also look to cooperate with China, at least tactically, on issues ranging from economic development to avoiding armed conflict."
The Biden team has spent this month building relations in the region, for instance participating in the "Quad" meeting with the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan last Friday. Moreover, Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are renewing friendships in Tokyo and Seoul this week before the high-profile Alaska meeting. Austin will be heading to New Delhi next week.
Washington needs to do more than just talk to friends, however. For instance, it has yet to make good on its many promises to hold the Chinese accountable for clearly unacceptable - and deteriorating - behavior. There have been so many rounds of useless discussions between the two countries in the last three decades, so Xi will be impressed only if Biden takes action to defend American interests.
Not much to add - Xi sees the fiden criminal cabal as weak - and he is right - the DPST /ccp acolytes want to spend America into oblivion and Chinese subjugation - and are well on their way
ThankU - nazi pelosi, commie, schumer, senilefiden, KumHoela and all your Xi Loving Big Brother minions.
China goes to Alaska to dictate terms and interests to America
