{"id":1842846,"date":"2023-02-11T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842846"},"modified":"2023-02-11T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:25:23","slug":"former-official-calls-for-biden-administration-to-apply-clarity-in-policy-towards-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-official-calls-for-biden-administration-to-apply-clarity-in-policy-towards-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Official Calls for Biden Administration to Apply Clarity in Policy Towards China"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fformer-official-calls-for-biden-administration-to-apply-clarity-in-policy-towards-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=1842846&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Steve-Yates-1200x744-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An ex-official has asked the Biden administration for clarity regarding its policy toward Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/if-china-threatens-our-sovereignty-we-will-act-biden-in-state-of-the-union_5041710.html\">China briefly<\/a> During his one-hour-long State of the Union speech, February 7, 2007, He began by declaring that the United States was \u201cin the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world,\u201d U.S. investments in industries and alliances, as well as working with allies and U.S. military modernization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am committed to work with China where we can advance American interests and benefit the world,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>He cited his Feb. 4 order to shoot down a Chinese spy ball that flew for days over the United States as an example of how he was protecting U.S. sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut make no mistake about it: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina only got almost 30 seconds to a minute mention in the entire State of the Union that went for an hour and 20 minutes. So it was kind of astonishing that way,\u201d Steve Yates, former Deputy National Security Advisor at the White House stated in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/china-in-focus-full-broadcast-feb-8_900158.html\">China in Focus<\/a>\u201d NTD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t directly address the balloon [incident]. He sort of alluded to it, though, saying \u2018if China were to challenge our sovereignty, I would respond and I did,\u2019\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Initially detected on Jan. 28, the balloon entered the United States twice with a brief incursion over Canada\u2019s airfield, traveling through multiple sensitive military sites before an F-22 fighter jet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinese-spy-ballon-shot-down-falling-toward-atlantic_5034316.html\">It was taken down<\/a> One week later, the Carolina coast was seen from the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows a little bit of weakness in terms of protecting American sovereignty, our homeland. It doesn\u2019t really matter what was on the balloon, if it was doing visual surveillance, obviously, the ability to carry something like that across our territory was deeply provocative,\u201d Yates spoke of the U.S. response to the Chinese spy balloon incident.<\/p>\n<h2>Ambiguity persists<\/h2>\n<p>He cited Biden\u2019s comment that he prefers competition rather than conflict with China, noting that Chinese Communist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp\">CCP<\/a>Xi Jinping, head \u201chas proven by his actions that he doesn\u2019t shy away from conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sent his wolf warriors to bark different criticisms at his Secretary of State National Security Adviser, he crushed Hong Kong with impunity, he has threatened Taiwan somewhat with impunity from the United States,\u201d Yates said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has spoken up, but there\u2019s a lot of ambiguity in what the United States is prepared to do about it,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think a lot of mixed signals, and unclear priorities, leave an advantage for Beijing,\u201d Yates said.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times reached out to the White House in order to receive comments.<\/p>\n<h2>Reciprocity<\/h2>\n<p>He called for the United States&#8217; use of \u201creciprocity\u201d Its China approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to right-size U.S.-China policy to be consistent with what they\u2019re doing with us. They don\u2019t allow us to own agricultural land in China, so they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to own agricultural land in the United States. They control access to their markets and their platforms, and they force transparency. Well, we should do the same,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>Yates stated that the state governors and legislatures should be proactive in defending China from threats, citing South Dakota&#8217;s example.<\/p>\n<p>South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/kristi-noem-proposes-legislation-to-restrict-chinese-purchase-of-us-farmland_4923294.html\">Proposed<\/a>\u00a0China has passed legislation that will restrict foreign purchases of farmland, including China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this new process, we will be able to prevent nations who hate us\u2014like Communist China\u2014from buying up our state\u2019s agriculture land,\u201d Noem stated this in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many states that are passing laws to ban particular CCP activities or investments. And I think as the states aggregate those moves, the federal government, by way of the Congress will be forced to accommodate, too,\u201d Yates said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank Fang contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-official has asked the Biden administration for clarity regarding its policy toward Iran. China. President Joe Biden China briefly During his one-hour-long State of the Union speech, February 7, 2007, He began by declaring that the United States was \u201cin the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1842849,"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":[547],"tags":[4106,10497,3620,3755,4501,18337,4808,4326],"class_list":["post-1842846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-administration","tag-apply","tag-biden","tag-calls","tag-china","tag-clarity","tag-official","tag-policy"],"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\/1842846","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=1842846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}