{"id":1747047,"date":"2022-11-21T13:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747047"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:33:37","slug":"my-apologies-michael-bloomberg-apologizes-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-apologies-michael-bloomberg-apologizes-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Apologies\u2019: Michael Bloomberg Apologizes to China"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fmy-apologies-michael-bloomberg-apologizes-to-china%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=1747047&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>Michael Bloomberg, who leads the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Innovation Board, apologized to attendees of his annual economic forum after former British prime minister Boris Johnson called the Chinese government a &#8220;coercive autocracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Bloomberg on Thursday said that Johnson&#8217;s remarks were &#8220;his thoughts and his thoughts alone&#8221; and were not cleared with him personally. &#8220;Some may have been insulted or offended last night by parts of the speaker&#8217;s remarks referencing certain countries and their duly elected leaders,&#8221; the former New York City mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/nov\/18\/mike-bloomberg-forced-to-apologise-after-boris-johnson-speech-criticising-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the crowd at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. &#8220;To those of you who were upset and concerned by what the speaker said, you have my apologies.&#8221; Johnson had referred to China and Russia as &#8220;two former communist tyrannies in which power has once again been concentrated in the hands of a single ruler&#8221; in a blistering speech to an audience that included China&#8217;s vice president and Chinese business leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg has long defended the Chinese government, but his apology takes on new significance given his position as an adviser to President Joe Biden&#8217;s Defense Department. As chairman of the Defense Innovation Board, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/innovation.defense.gov\/About1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advises<\/a> the secretary of defense and other Pentagon leaders on &#8220;emerging technologies and innovative approaches that [the Defense Department] should adopt to ensure U.S. technological and military dominance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his opening address at the forum, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3JWk-YdyGV4?t=352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> Chinese vice president Wang Qishan as a &#8220;troubleshooter,&#8221; &#8220;problem solver,&#8221; and &#8220;longtime friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden earlier this year tapped Bloomberg to lead the board. Bloomberg, who in 2020 ran for president as a Democrat, contributed millions of dollars to support Biden&#8217;s campaign and to Democratic committees. He serves on the Pentagon board with Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/new-liberal-truth-brigade-has-ties-to-billionaire-who-peddled-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has funded<\/a>\u00a0disinformation initiatives to help Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon did not respond to questions about Bloomberg&#8217;s defense of China. But the billionaire has a long record of defending Chinese leaders against Western allegations of authoritarianism. Bloomberg insisted throughout his presidential bid that Chinese president Xi Jinping &#8220;is not a dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China and they listen to the public,&#8221; Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/bloomberg-xi-jinping-is-not-a-dictator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;When the public says, \u2018I can&#8217;t breathe the air,&#8217; Xi Jinping is not a dictator. He has to satisfy his constituents, or he&#8217;s not going to survive.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/bloomberg-xi-isnt-a-dictator-because-the-chinese-dont-seem-to-want-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doubled down<\/a> on the defense during presidential debates in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Xi has cemented his grip on the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg, who leads the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Innovation Board, apologized to attendees of his annual economic forum after former British prime minister Boris Johnson called the Chinese government a &#8220;coercive autocracy.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post \u2018My Apologies\u2019: Michael Bloomberg Apologizes to China appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1747050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747047","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}