{"id":1117232,"date":"2021-12-14T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117232"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:28:33","slug":"china-points-and-laughs-after-biden-admin-censors-taiwanese-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-points-and-laughs-after-biden-admin-censors-taiwanese-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"China Points and Laughs After Biden Admin Censors Taiwanese Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fchina-points-and-laughs-after-biden-admin-censors-taiwanese-minister%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=1117232&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--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s state-run&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> propaganda outlet published an editorial on Monday mocking the government of Taiwan after the administration of President Joe Biden censored a Taiwanese minister at its \u201cSummit for Democracy\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s State Department invited Taiwanese government officials to address the virtual event, meant to create a forum for democratic leaders to discuss growing threats from authoritarian governments and how to maximize freedom. America does not formally recognize Taiwan as a country \u2013 despite its fully independent sovereign government, military, and social institutions \u2013 as doing so would anger China, which falsely claims the island nation as a rogue \u201cprovince.\u201d The invite outraged China, however, as Taiwan appeared on a list of invitee names that only included other sovereign states, implying that Taiwan was among them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese also protested that the Communist Party, a totalitarian institution currently engaging in genocide, was not invited to discuss how to strengthen democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s pride in participating in the event was rapidly tarnished after the State Department abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/13\/reuters-biden-censored-taiwan-map-at-digital-authoritarianism-panel-on-purpose\/\">cut<\/a> Taiwanese Minister Audrey Tang\u2019s feed \u2013 ironically, during a panel discussion on \u201cdigital authoritarianism\u201d \u2013 when her screen showed a map created by an NGO classifying East Asia based on degree of civilian freedoms in each country. As Taiwan is a free democratic state and China is one of the world\u2019s most repressive dictatorships, the two countries appeared in different colors.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and State Department both formally claimed that technical errors and an \u201chonest mistake\u201d caused the feed to cut out. Reuters reported on Monday, however, that Biden officials panicked at the sight of the map and abruptly cut the feed for fear of offending the Communist Party of China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The State Department has since shared a link to the video of Tang\u2019s address in full, including the map, on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021-12-10 Summit for Democracy \u2014 Affirming Democratic Values with Technology\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkewUzZKanU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Neither Tang nor the Taiwanese government has formally objected to the incident. Tang called the Summit for Democracy \u201cstellar\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1241388.shtml\">responded<\/a> to the embarrassment by celebrating the Biden administration\u2019s humiliation of sovereign Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany [Chinese] netizens on Monday morning mocked Taiwan authorities after reading the report by Reuters. It was the natural pleasure of seeing a traitor slapped in the face by his master,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> editorial declared. \u201cYet [China] does not really care about this incident. [China] is very clear about the kind of US policy toward Taiwan island.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWashington tries to avoid crossing the red line drawn by [China], which is a result of increasing strength of the latter. [China] has more faith in its own strength, instead of illusions about the \u201crationality\u201d of the U.S.,\u201d the editorial continued. The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, like all Chinese regime propaganda, referred to the legal territory of China as \u201cthe Chinese mainland,\u201d a colonialist term implying that things outside of what is legally China also belong to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you\u2019re a running dog. The Tsai Ing-wen authority has no leverage over the US and can only hope to be embraced by the US, which can kick the island around at will,\u201d the propaganda outlet asserted, referred to the president of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> accused the United States of benefitting diplomatically from Taiwan receiving neither sovereign recognition nor being seen as a Chinese province, a position at odds with Taiwan\u2019s reality as an independent country.<\/p>\n<p>America, the outlet claimed, \u201cwants to keep the situation in which the island of Taiwan is neither reunified with [China], nor \u2018independent,\u2019 in a bid to control the pressure it piles on [China] with the Taiwan question.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19125594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237144792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19125594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237144792-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the closing remarks of the virtual Summit for Democracy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, in Washington, DC, December 10, 2021. (SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is inevitable that the U.S. will say one thing today, another thing tomorrow, and make up for the situation if it goes too much in one direction. Taiwan should not be held hostage by the DPP authority to be a bargaining chip of the U.S.,\u201d the editorial concluded. The DPP, or Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), is the ruling party in Taiwan.<br \/>While Chinese propagandists gloat about the incident at the Summit for Democracy, the situation has caused significant outrage in the United States. On Monday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) demanded that the individuals responsible for censoring the Taiwanese government official lose their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe for a minute that it was merely a technical issue. I believe that this is an example of the president and the administration kowtowing to Beijing,\u201d Cotton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/13\/cotton-someone-should-be-fired-for-cutting-taiwans-feed\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News. \u201cJoe Biden should apologize for what happened. Someone should be held accountable in his administration. Someone should be fired for what happened. But Joe Biden should apologize for what happened today. It shouldn\u2019t have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has yet to apologize, or address in any way, the events at the Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Under dictator Xi Jinping, China has become increasingly belligerent against Taiwan. Xi himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/14\/bones-ground-to-powder-xi-jinping-threatens-gruesome-death-for-hong-kong-taiwan\/\">threatened<\/a> in a speech in 2019 that anyone who supports Taiwan\u2019s status as a free country would have their \u201cbones ground to powder,\u201d offering the same promise to Hong Kong anti-communist protesters.<\/p>\n<p>A study published this month by the NGO Safeguard Defenders found that Beijing has significantly increased its persecution of Taiwanese nationals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/02\/report-beijing-using-extradition-to-force-hundreds-of-taiwanese-into-china\/\">abducting<\/a> over 600 of them between 2016 and 2019 through forced extraditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run\u00a0Global Times propaganda outlet published an editorial on Monday mocking the government of Taiwan after the administration of President Joe Biden censored a Taiwanese minister at its \u201cSummit for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-1117232","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\/1117232","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117232\/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=1117232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}