{"id":1115514,"date":"2021-12-13T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115514"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:43:39","slug":"anonymous-biden-officials-scramble-to-place-blame-for-pro-china-censorship-at-democracy-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anonymous-biden-officials-scramble-to-place-blame-for-pro-china-censorship-at-democracy-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Biden Officials Scramble To Place Blame For Pro-China Censorship At Democracy Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanonymous-biden-officials-scramble-to-place-blame-for-pro-china-censorship-at-democracy-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>U.S. government officials are scrambling to place blame after Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang had her video feed abruptly cut Friday during the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cSummit for Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A map depicting the nations of Taiwan and China in different colors allegedly prompted a flurry of angry emails from the White House National Security Council (NSC) to the State Department, according to an anonymous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/curious-case-map-disappearing-taiwan-minister-us-democracy-summit-2021-12-12\/\">Reuters<\/a> source. The source claimed that the feed was cut on day two of the summit and replaced with audio at the behest of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey choked,\u201d the source explained, with another source claiming it was an internal overreaction, according to Reuters. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/13\/china-owns-us-hollywood-censorship-rick-berman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018China Owns Us\u2019: Rick Berman On How China Forces American Industries Into \u2018Self-Censorship\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sources said that the action was seen as counter to the mission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/schedule-the-summit-for-democracy\/\">segment<\/a> labeled \u201cCountering Digital Authoritarianism And Affirming Democratic Values,\u201d according to Reuters. They also claimed that the White House was nervous about contradicting its stance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiu.state.gov\/cartographic_guidance_bulletins\/37-Taiwan-2020.pdf\">One China policy<\/a> by depicting Taiwan and China as separate nations during the U.S.-hosted conference, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The map reportedly did not appear in a dry run of the presentation, which prompted the abrupt response, not the concerns regarding the One China policy dispute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/east-asia\/taiwan-minister-map-democracy-summit-b1974968.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Independent, raising questions about whether the Taiwanese government left it out on purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.477508650519\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My admin sources tell me the decision to temporarily interrupt the Taiwanese official\u2019s video feed at the Democracy Summit was made at the technical level at the State Dept, not directed by the White House or the NSC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oUH2bxP4b8\">https:\/\/t.co\/oUH2bxP4b8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin\/status\/1470433453787299840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2021\/12\/13\/josh-rogin-on-the-reuters-report-on-us-democracy-summit-state-department-threw-white-house-under-the-bus\/\">Brian Kilmeade show<\/a> that his sources told him that the State Department ordered the feed be removed, and subsequently tried to throw the White House under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>However, an NSC spokesman said, \u201cAt no time did the White House direct that Minister Tang\u2019s video feed be cut,\u201d asserting that the Reuters account of events was inaccurate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/13\/wh-cut-video-feed-of-taiwanese-minister-at-biden-summit-report\/\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summit, China <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/24\/joe-biden-administration-invite-taiwan-summit-democracy-su-tseng-chang-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> inviting Taiwan, but not China itself, \u201ca mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. government officials are scrambling to place blame after Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang had her video feed abruptly cut Friday during the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cSummit for Democracy.\u201dA map depicting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}