{"id":1567339,"date":"2022-07-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567339"},"modified":"2022-07-23T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T11:05:58","slug":"douglas-murray-biden-is-letting-putin-and-xi-dictate-our-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/douglas-murray-biden-is-letting-putin-and-xi-dictate-our-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Murray: Biden Is Letting Putin and Xi Dictate Our Foreign Policy"},"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\">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%2Fdouglas-murray-biden-is-letting-putin-and-xi-dictate-our-foreign-policy%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=1567339&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Douglas Murray\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Who runs our foreign policy? Is it the White House, State Department and Senate? Or is it the Chinese Politburo and the Kremlin?<\/p>\n<p>Going on events this week I\u2019d say it\u2019s starting to look like the latter. Consider the reaction of the Chinese Communist Party to news that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/19\/china-warns-pelosi-taiwan-trip-would-have-severe-negative-impact-on-relations\/\">planning a congressional delegation <\/a>to Taiwan. As The Post reported this week, the Communists said that any such trip would have a \u201csevere negative impact\u201d on relations between the US and Beijing. The CCP spokesman said that China \u201cfirmly\u201d opposes any interactions between the US and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Well that may be. But the question for the President, Speaker Pelosi and others is whether the communists in Beijing should have the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/20\/biden-urges-pelosi-to-cancel-taiwan-trip-talking-soon-with-xi\/\">right to dictate <\/a>their travel schedule.<\/p>\n<p>True, Beijing thinks that Taiwan belongs to them. But the government and free people of the thriving island think otherwise. And just because you want to own territory does not mean you are allowed to. Or at least that used to be the consensus held since World War II. But in recent years a different agreement has begun to emerge. Partly thanks to Communist China. Partly thanks to Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Putin\u2019s Russia believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/21\/photos-show-devastation-in-kharkiv-after-russian-airstrike\/\">Ukraine belongs to it<\/a>. Like Taiwan and China there are long historical arguments that can be had. But once a country is independent and free all such territorial claims used to be regarded as dead. Then in 2014, during the last Democrat Presidency, the Russians <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/20\/official-russia-expanding-its-war-focus-to-southern-ukraine\/\">invaded a portion of Ukraine.<\/a> They stormed in and annexed the Crimean peninsular. America and her allies allowed it to happen. There were those who said \u201cit\u2019s none of our business.\u201d Others said \u201cthey believe they own it so who are we to say.\u201d More commonly people said \u201cwe don\u00b4t want a fight.\u201d And Vladimir Putin watched us and learned a lot.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Sputnik\/Aleksey Druzhinin\/Kremlin\/REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He is a man famously good at spotting the weaknesses of his counterparts. There is a famous story about his first meeting with the then new German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The former KGB officer made sure that he did his homework on his new German counterpart and he turned up the discovery that Merkel had a long-established and deep-seated fear of large dogs. So what did Vladimir Putin make sure of when Merkel in 2007? He made sure that a couple of huge dogs joined them at the start of the meeting, putting Merkel into a barely disguised terror and himself in a position of happy dominance.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same with America and the West today. Putin eyed us up after his annexation of Crimea, watched our weakness, bided his time and then this year went out to gobble up more territory.<\/p>\n<p>Of course to some extent he miscalculated. He underestimated the extent to which NATO could pull itself together and the way in which the Western alliance could rediscover some purpose. He also overestimated the abilities of his own corrupt armed forces and senior military who got <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/21\/cia-estimates-15000-russian-troops-killed-in-ukraine-war\/\">bogged down in Ukraine<\/a> fast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting\" class=\"wp-image-23152598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Mikhail Klimentyev\/Kremlin Pool\/Planet Pix\/ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the easy defeat which many Americans hoped for did not happen. The Russians have not slunk out of Ukraine. They have kept fighting, throwing their young troops into the meat-grinder, and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/20\/ukrainian-dad-holds-hand-of-son-killed-in-russian-aistrike\/\"> shelling civilian population centers<\/a> in a way not seen in Europe for decades. We in the West congratulated ourselves on our unity. We patted ourselves on the back for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/20\/ukraines-first-lady-olena-zelenska-to-address-us-congress\/\">providing limited munitions to the Ukrainians<\/a>. And we overestimated the extent to which sanctions which deter Putin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tKeep up with today&#8217;s most important news\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tStay up on the very latest with Evening Update.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In fact Putin has been watching us more closely than we have been watching him. He knows that European gas relies on him. He knows that when winter comes the Europeans are likely to suffer shortages and fall out with each other. He knows that sanctions have actually pushed up the price of gas and oil. Meaning that Putin is actually becoming even richer because of the sanctions. And he knows that while we are willing to equip Ukraine with relatively light munitions, we will not arm them with anything heavier. That is because of our fear of how he will react if we do.<\/p>\n<p>And so now it looks like the Kremlin is actually planning to expand its war in Ukraine. According to declassified intelligence released by the National Security Council, Putin now plans to gobble up even more of the country. What is the response of the NSC spokesman John Kirby? Apparently any further land grab by Putin \u201cwill only make things worse for Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ukraine-war-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ukraine-war-4.jpg\" alt=\"A local resident helps firefighters to put out a fire in a yard of a house on July 19.\" class=\"wp-image-23153599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ukraine-war-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ukraine-war-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ukraine-war-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A local resident helps firefighters to put out a fire in a yard of a house on July 19. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"> IGOR TKACHEV\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of the stoning scene in Monty Python\u2019s \u201cLife of Brian.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake it worse for ourselves? How much worse can it get?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>America and her allies have already done everything they dare do to Russia. And Russia knows it. And it seems Russia can withstand it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"China&#039;s President Xi Jinping\" class=\"wp-image-23152597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/biden-xi-putin-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The US had previously scolded China for providing military aid to Russia earlier this year.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Selim Chtayti\/Pool\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China is watching this, and it knows that much of the words coming out of Washington are just that \u2014 words. Sure there are consequences to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/14\/biden-to-meet-xi-virtually-us-confronts-china-over-russia-aid\/\">going against America.<\/a> But they\u00b4re not lethal. And they\u2019re not limitless. They are in fact very limited and very easy to predict. It starts with allowing annexations. It ends by foreign governments telling American officials what their travel plans can be.<\/p>\n<p>If I were advising Nancy, I\u00b4d tell her to bring her flights forward a bit. Book to fly to Taiwan fast. And book often.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Twitter\u2019s double standard<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Everybody is aware of Twitter\u2019s claim that they are a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/21\/inside-the-shadowy-delaware-court-set-to-decide-musk-v-twitter\/\">completely even-handed,<\/a> totally non-partisan platform. One which treats any bad behavior by left or right with equal seriousness. And everybody knows this is totally sincere and totally believes Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>So can anyone explain why the group <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/09\/shutdowndc-offering-bounty-for-scotus-justices-intel\/\">Shut Down DC are still on Twitter?<\/a> The group recently offered bounties for public sightings of conservative Supreme Court Justices. Earlier this month it offered $50 for confirmed sightings and $200 if the justice was still at the location 30 minutes after being reported.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is this? Is this incitement or not? It certainly looks like it. But I guess Twitter doesn\u2019t think so. After all, the bounty is on conservative justices, not liberals. So the Twitter rules don\u2019t apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who runs our foreign policy? Is it the White House, State Department and Senate? Or is it the Chinese Politburo and the Kremlin?<\/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-1567339","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\/1567339","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=1567339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567339\/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=1567339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}