{"id":1583015,"date":"2022-08-01T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583015"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:04:05","slug":"biden-admin-taps-china-apologist-for-foggy-bottom-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-taps-china-apologist-for-foggy-bottom-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Taps China Apologist for Foggy Bottom Post"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-taps-china-apologist-for-foggy-bottom-post%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=1583015&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Quincy Institute scholar Jessica Lee has lambasted the administration&#8217;s rhetoric toward China, arguing it fuels anti-Asian hate crimes<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tChinese and U.S. flags fly in front of the White House (Jewel Samad\/AFP via Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 1, 2022 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The State Department is tapping a China apologist who has blamed the Biden administration\u2019s rhetoric toward the Communist country\u00a0for a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and called for &#8220;a cooperative relationship&#8221; with North Korea, according to two sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Lee, a scholar at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an isolationist think-tank bankrolled by George Soros and Charles Koch,\u00a0is joining the administration as senior adviser for legislative affairs at the State Department, two sources familiar with the matter told\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been one of the most strident\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quincyinst.org\/2021\/05\/25\/u-s-china-policy-anti-asian-discrimination\/\">critics<\/a>\u00a0of what she called the Biden administration\u2019s &#8220;anti-China&#8221; foreign policy, advocating\u00a0for closer ties with the CCP and arguing\u00a0that &#8220;over-the-top&#8221; warnings about China\u2019s malign activities\u2014including widespread hack attacks and domestic spying incidents\u2014increase the likelihood of war with the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The continual naming and blaming of China as a bad actor on seemingly every front, as the source of all of America\u2019s problems, cultivates real fear and insecurity among Americans,&#8221; Lee said in a May 2021 video.\u00a0 &#8220;And it directly fuels violence against Americans of Asian descent. From physical attacks to outright murder, evidence of violent racism fueled by our anti-China policy is alarming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s move from the Quincy Institute to the State Department is a sign the American foreign policy community\u2019s most dovish voices are making inroads with the Biden administration. She is one of several Quincy Institute members to join the administration, including Rachel Esplin Odell, a State Department employee who has claimed &#8220;the military threat posed by China to U.S. interests is limited in nature.&#8221; Former Quincy Institute official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/progressives-notch-victory-in-biden-national-security-council\/\">Sasha Baker<\/a>, is a senior official at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes at a precarious time for the organization, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/the-koch-soros-crackup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/the-koch-soros-crackup\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659464013423000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2VOnV21Nx1otVIZGkJu3dI\">has seen<\/a> two top staff members resign over its calls for a speedy resolution to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and its opposition to the Biden administration&#8217;s support for the Ukrainian resistance. In addition to China and Russia, the think tank is also home to several scholars who are calling for a more accomodationist posture toward Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been one of the most prominent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/quincy-institute-blames-anti-asian-violence-on-china-hawks-in-congress\/\">pro-China<\/a>\u00a0voices working at the Quincy Institute. In a May 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hBb_sTBxB8A&#038;t=39s\">video<\/a>\u00a0posted online, Lee claimed that &#8220;a hostile relationship with China will make Americans less safe.&#8221; She also bemoaned the potential to lose &#8220;cultural and student exchanges&#8221; with China, but did not mention that the CCP uses these programs to infiltrate U.S. institutions and spy on them.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;most troubling&#8221; result of America\u2019s &#8220;anti-China&#8221; foreign policy, according to Lee, is the rise in racist violence. &#8220;There is a clear link between the militaristic foreign policy that we\u2019re seeing today and the rise of anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes,&#8221; the Quincy Institute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quincyinst.org\/2021\/05\/25\/u-s-china-policy-anti-asian-discrimination\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in an introduction to Lee\u2019s video.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s rumored hire comes at a pivotal point in the U.S.-China relationship and against the backdrop of the White House&#8217;s softening stance toward China. While President Joe Biden has said in the past that the United States would defend Taiwan if it is invaded by China\u2014comments that administration officials walked back\u2014Biden recently warned Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi against visiting the contested island during her trip to Asia this week.<\/p>\n<p>Lee also has advocated for the United States to end the Korean War and develop a &#8220;cooperative relationship&#8221; with the country\u2019s dictator, Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the long-term, Washington should also be open to the possibility of not just normalization of relations but to a cooperative relationship with Pyongyang as part of closing the chapter of the Korean War and stemming the growing arms race between the two Koreas,&#8221; Lee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2022\/07\/19\/how-the-us-should-respond-if-north-korea-conducts-another-nuke-test\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a July 2022 analysis for the Quincy Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said that North Korea\u2019s nuclear missile testing &#8220;makes sense&#8221; and that &#8220;over-emphasizing the nuclear threat fosters deterrence-centric solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who will liaise with Congress as part of her role at the State Department, publicly griped in 2021 that Capitol Hill staffers are unable to comprehend North Korea policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw firsthand the inherent challenges of getting 545 Hill offices to play a constructive role in [North Korea] related matters,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210326002648\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessLee_DC\/status\/1375203205823483908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. There is a &#8220;lack of expertise, high staff turnover, and lack of sustained attention to Asia, just to name a few.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Quincy Institute scholar Jessica Lee has lambasted the administration&#8217;s rhetoric toward China, arguing it fuels anti-Asian hate crimes  Chinese and U.S. flags fly in front<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"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-1583015","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\/1583015","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583015\/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=1583015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}