{"id":1355892,"date":"2022-03-02T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1355892"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:53:18","slug":"china-teases-biden-for-sending-officials-to-taiwan-during-mike-pompeo-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-teases-biden-for-sending-officials-to-taiwan-during-mike-pompeo-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"China Teases Biden for Sending Officials to Taiwan During Mike Pompeo Visit"},"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\">24<\/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-teases-biden-for-sending-officials-to-taiwan-during-mike-pompeo-visit%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=1355892&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><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>on Tuesday heckled the Biden administration for supposedly sending a delegation of defense officials to Taiwan to upstage former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived for his own visit Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This little jab of sarcasm was mixed with the usual blood-curdling threats about America potentially starting World War III by supporting the hopelessly lost cause of Taiwanese independence.<\/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>Pompeo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/politics\/202203020023\"><span>arrived<\/span><\/a><span> in Taiwan on Wednesday for a four-day visit that will include meetings with top Taiwanese officials, including President Tsai Ing-wen, who will present Pompeo with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/english.president.gov.tw\/Page\/101\"><span>Order of Brilliant Star<\/span><\/a><span> commendation Thursday.<\/span><i><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Pompeo said it was \u201cwonderful\u201d to make his long-planned trip to Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been looking forward to coming to visit with the people of Taiwan for a very long time. I\u2019m so much looking forward to my trip, to meeting with business people, people from government, people all across your great nation,\u201d he said upon arriving at Taoyuan International Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy Minister Tseng extended the warmest of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taiwan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taiwan<\/a> welcomes to former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikepompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MikePompeo<\/a> &#038; his wife Susan. We wish our good friends a wonderful &#038; enlightening 4-day visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IslandOfResilience?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IslandOfResilience<\/a>. \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8T91b6LSTU\">pic.twitter.com\/8T91b6LSTU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u5916\u4ea4\u90e8 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc (@MOFA_Taiwan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOFA_Taiwan\/status\/1499005196340391940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Communist China agrees that Pompeo\u2019s contributions to U.S. relations with Taiwan were prodigious, but is rather less happy about it. The regime in Beijing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/20\/958996415\/china-slaps-sanctions-on-28-trump-administration-officials-including-mike-pompeo\"><span>leveled<\/span><\/a><span> \u201csanctions\u201d against Pompeo and 27 other outgoing Trump administration officials in January 2021, within minutes of President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A delegation of former top U.S. defense officials arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, led by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen and including officials from the Bush and Obama administrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minister Wu welcomed the high-level bipartisan delegation of former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> security officials led by Adm Mike Mullen &#038; comprising <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micheleflournoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@micheleflournoy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OSullivanMeghan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OSullivanMeghan<\/a> Michael Green &#038; Evan Medeiros. We thank the Biden administration for its timely show of rock-solid support for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taiwan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taiwan<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R5sm9lvN2x\">pic.twitter.com\/R5sm9lvN2x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u5916\u4ea4\u90e8 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc (@MOFA_Taiwan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOFA_Taiwan\/status\/1498596745512914962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The quickly-arranged visit, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/exclusive-biden-sends-former-top-defense-officials-taiwan-show-support-2022-02-28\/\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> by the Biden White House on Monday, was meant as a show of continuing American support for Taiwan during Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. The White House was aware of Pompeo\u2019s previously scheduled visit but chose not to comment on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20076370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/speech-via-joe-biden-address.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20076370 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speech-via-joe-biden-address-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on March 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. In his first State of the Union address, Biden spoke on his administration\u2019s efforts to lead a global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, work to curb inflation, and bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on March 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>halfheartedly tried to manufacture a little drama about the two visits, briefly citing unnamed \u201cChinese experts\u201d convinced the Biden administration wanted to \u201coffset the impact of the former secretary of state, who has ambitions for the 2024 presidential election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19994810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/China-Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19994810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/China-Russia.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing for the Winter Olympics and talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, amid soaring tensions with Ukraine.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, February 4, 2022. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cMany Taiwan people, who have witnessed endless U.S. arms sales and the DPP authority\u2019s decision to lift import bans of ractopamine-enhanced pork from the U.S., suspect that the U.S. is trying to raise the price of its protection fee for Taiwan during this trip,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>muttered.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14535612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/09\/wi\/ap\/23\/taiwan-china-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-speaks-visit-penghu-magong-military-air-base-outlying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14535612 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/taiwan-china-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-speaks-visit-penghu-magong-military-air-base-outlying-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a visit to the Penghu Magong military air base in outlying Penghu Island, Taiwan Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (AP Photo\/Johnson Lai)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The DPP is President Tsai\u2019s party, the Democratic Progressive Party. The Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party, which is friendly to China and fared poorly in the last few elections, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Politics\/Taiwan-sticks-with-U.S.-pork-in-contentious-referendum\"><span>criticized<\/span><\/a><span> the DPP for lifting a ban on U.S. pork imports last year. The ban was imposed because many American pork producers use an additive called ractopamine banned in Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The DPP won a referendum in December on the pork issue in another political setback for KMT, but ractopamine remains a contentious issue in Taiwan, giving the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>a raw nerve to poke at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese propagandists are laboring mightily to present Ukraine as a negative lesson for Taiwanese \u201csecessionists,\u201d telling them America can no more protect Taiwan than it could protect the Ukrainians.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>took a little victory lap over the Biden delegation containing only long-retired former officials, a detail it took as a sign of weakness and climbdown from the strong support President Donald Trump and his secretary of state Pompeo showed toward the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome analysts said Biden\u2019s sudden dispatch of the delegation may have been an attempt to \u2018draw red lines\u2019 for the upcoming meeting between Tsai and Pompeo to avoid angering China at a time of instability, while at the same time offsetting the impact of Pompeo\u2019s trip,\u201d the Chinese Communist paper sneered.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15978946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-138943413.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15978946 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-138943413-1024x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"US Vice President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, February 14, 2012. Xi, who arrived in Washington on Monday, is expected to succeed President Hu Jintao in 2013. Chinese presidents generally serve two five-year terms, meaning Xi could be in charge when some experts forecast that China will surpass the United States as the world&#039;s largest economy. AFP PHOTO\/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, February 14, 2012. (JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1253670.shtml\"><span>taunted<\/span><\/a><span> Taiwanese officials for \u201cgroveling\u201d before Biden\u2019s symbolic emissaries:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>This comes at a time when the morale of the DPP authority remains low and its confidence in the US has been seriously eroded. The panic of the DPP authority is very self-evident. The Biden administration has become aware of this mind-set and is worried that the small pawn of the US in East Asia to \u201ccontain Beijing\u201d will be shaken. To this end, Biden suddenly made up his mind to send this delegation in a bid to ease the DPP authority\u2019s panic. Although members of the delegation are former senior Washington officials, Biden\u2019s \u201cdispatch\u201d has given the group an official status. Just as a spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said previously, the so-called distinction of \u201cofficial\u201d and \u201cunofficial\u201d is just a cover for their \u201cdeception.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Why are those sent to Taiwan all former military officers and senior national security officials? The Biden administration has taken great pains in making the decision. Such an arrangement has an \u201cadvantage\u201d \u2013 these people can talk as big as possible. They can say whatever the DPP authority hopes to hear and the US government does not have to take any responsibility for it. One can even imagine the kind of conversation that would take place between them. It will be nothing more than lines just like \u201cDon\u2019t worry too much, we won\u2019t leave you alone.\u201d But apart from the self-deceiving DPP authority and the \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d secessionist forces, very few people on the island of Taiwan believe such a trick. This is simply because as long as the DPP authority does not stop its \u201cindependence-seeking\u201d moves, no one can guarantee their safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cOf course, with the DPP authority in such a desperate situation, as long as some Americans can visit the island and put on a show, they will feel excited. There are even crowds of people in Taiwan rushing to curry favor with an infamous troublemaker like Pompeo,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>huffed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe US has in recent years ratcheted up its actions to \u2018use Taiwan to contain China,\u2019 which has objectively instigated the \u2018Taiwan independence.\u2019 But the attempt to \u2018rely on the US to seek independence\u2019 is doomed to fail. Tsai probably has become aware of this, otherwise why has she practiced how to escape in many exercises? When that day comes, whether the Americans would help Tsai flee the island depends on her usefulness,\u201d the belligerent editorial concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Tuesday heckled the Biden administration for supposedly sending a delegation of defense officials to Taiwan to upstage former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1355892","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\/1355892","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355892\/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=1355892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}