{"id":1147500,"date":"2021-12-23T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1147500"},"modified":"2021-12-23T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:49:26","slug":"china-declares-biden-administration-has-failed-in-the-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-declares-biden-administration-has-failed-in-the-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"China Declares Biden Administration Has \u2018Failed in the First Year\u2019"},"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-declares-biden-administration-has-failed-in-the-first-year%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=1147500&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\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243153.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Wednesday declared the Biden administration has \u201cfailed in the first year in office\u201d in the battle against the Wuhan coronavirus, especially the recent omicron variant outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese Communist newspaper dismissed Biden\u2019s plans to distribute 500 million at-home test kits and encourage vaccine booster shots as a \u201cplacebo-like\u201d approach and \u201ctoo little, too late.\u201d<\/span><\/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><span>\u201cYou know there\u2019s 330 million Americans right?!?!? Your number of tests seems awfully insufficient. Why wasn\u2019t this sorted MONTHS ago?\u201d a Chinese social media user shrieked at Biden, as quoted approvingly by the <\/span><i><span>Global Times.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The point of the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>critique was to frighten the United States back into lockdowns, with subsequent complaints about America\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d determination to hold family Christmas celebrations:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Yang Zhanqiu, a deputy director of the pathogen biology department at Wuhan University, told the Global Times that rapid tests can only detect patients.&nbsp;<\/span><span>How to quarantine and treat patients, and how to prevent wide transmission, require comprehensive measures, such as the social measure of staying at home, rather than what Biden said regarding Christmas celebrations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>L\u00fc Xiang, an expert of US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday that Biden\u2019s plans had no new measures and are just some comforting words.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Controlling an infectious disease requires strict measures in society, but even the president cannot follow the simple step of wearing a mask at public venues, L\u00fc said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>mixed in a grab bag of other unhappy facts about Biden\u2019s first year, including his plummeting approval ratings and soaring U.S. inflation rates, to predict he is \u201clikely to conclude his first year in office as the first U.S. president who so failed in the first year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19174418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19174418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/us-president-joe-biden-speaks-meeting-white-house-covid-19-response-team-roosevelt-of.png\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 16, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 16, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>China currently has about 13 million people under lockdown in the city of Xi\u2019an to control a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-city-records-211-cases-12502669\"><span>coronavirus surge<\/span><\/a><span>, which is rather dramatic given the Chinese Communist Party claims to have almost completely eradicated the Chinese coronavirus over a year ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Supposedly, these immense lockdowns were triggered by a very small number of cases, including just seven omicron infections across the entire country. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/12\/22\/china-covid-border-supply-chains\/\"><i><span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>noted on Thursday that China locked down Dongxing, a city on the Vietnam border with a population of 200,000, because allegedly a single coronavirus infection was reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese Communist Party claims its ability to impose these draconian lockdowns on short notice demonstrates the superiority of its authoritarian system to messy, disobedient Western democracies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-covid-19-lockdowns-starting-to-sting-11639569604\"><i><span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>(WSJ) posited China\u2019s \u201czero Covid\u201d lockdown-heavy approach is doing more damage to its economy than the regime wants to admit, as a growing number of factories report delayed shipments, reduced production, and complete shutdowns. Some Chinese border and port cities have reported significant economic contractions as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Wednesday declared the Biden administration has \u201cfailed in the first year in office\u201d in the battle against the Wuhan coronavirus, especially the recent omicron variant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-1147500","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\/1147500","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147500\/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=1147500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}