{"id":1951893,"date":"2023-06-20T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-cnn-cant-help-but-admit-the-biden-admin-just-got-steamrolled-by-china\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:33:45","slug":"even-cnn-cant-help-but-admit-the-biden-admin-just-got-steamrolled-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-cnn-cant-help-but-admit-the-biden-admin-just-got-steamrolled-by-china\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN reluctantly acknowledges Biden administration&#8217;s defeat against 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\">16<\/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%2Feven-cnn-cant-help-but-admit-the-biden-admin-just-got-steamrolled-by-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=1951893&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--><h2>Sometimes the truth leaks out even in a CNN report.<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened on Monday when CNN anchor Jim Sciutto acknowledged just how weak the Biden administration appeared with Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s trip to China.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn\u2019t bode well for a United States dealing with the ever-more-aggressive Asian power \u2014 no matter how Biden and his allies try to spin it.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s two-day trip that ended Monday has gotten some positive headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/06\/20\/1183098899\/antony-blinken-beijing-china-trip-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a> claimed it \u201cclears a diplomatic path.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/blinken-wrap-up-rare-visit-china-may-meet-xi-jinping-2023-06-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported the two countries agreed to \u201cstabilize their intense rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But CNN anchor Jim Sciutto noted that China had made it clear it intended to show Biden who was really the boss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimsciutto?\">@jimsciutto<\/a>: \u201cThere was an almost scolding tone\u201d to how Chinese officials treated <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken?\">@SecBlinken<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5HZiplynXj\">pic.twitter.com\/5HZiplynXj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1670862194836111371?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere was an almost scolding tone from the Chinese president to Secretary Blinken in advance of their meeting, in which he said something along the lines of, \u2018I hope you, Secretary Blinken, and America, will do more to improve the relationship.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, putting the onus on the U.S., and therefore implying that it\u2019s the U.S. that has been the problem here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sciutto didn\u2019t come out and say it, but that \u201conus\u201d doesn\u2019t happen in international relations unless one country knows it can steamroll its rival without fear of repercussion. It doesn\u2019t happen unless one country perceives the other as too weak to stand up for itself.<\/p>\n<p>And the brutal truth is, that\u2019s what the world\u2019s only superpower, under a president disgracefully unfit to be in the White House, has become.<\/p>\n<p>That moment of honesty was quickly papered over when Sciutto went on the call the meeting \u201cprogress, compared to where we were just a few weeks ago, when a similar visit was canceled in the wake of the Chinese spy balloon, so they\u2019re talking. And talking, considering how serious the divisions are right now, that is something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt provides channels to discuss these issues and hopefully don\u2019t allow them to escalate. But those issues \u2026 still exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, those issues still exist \u2014 like, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doj-reveals-charges-dozen-alleged-enemy-spies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rampant Chinese spying<\/a> on the United States (it isn\u2019t just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/troubling-report-chinese-spy-balloon-successfully-gathered-key-military-intel-flew-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance balloons<\/a> arrogantly flown over the continental United States or the occasional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/eric-swalwell-didnt-learn-lesson-chinese-spy-now-seen-shirtless-camel-middle-east-special-interest-group-affair-explodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fang Fang fling<\/a>), China threatening Taiwan, not to mention supporting \u2014 both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-biden-faces-foreign-policy-nightmare-ignoring-henry-kissingers-rule-russia-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tacitly and actively<\/a> \u2014 the Russian war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>China is also becoming increasingly belligerent in its more direct challenges to the U.S., moving forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/china-finalizing-plans-put-troops-100-miles-us-mainland-day-meeting-biden-admin-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to station<\/a> its own military personnel only 100 miles from the U.S. mainland, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/beijing-plans-a-new-training-facility-in-cuba-raising-prospect-of-chinese-troops-on-americas-doorstep-e17fd5d1?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the tone of contacts between the two countries since Biden came into office.<\/p>\n<p>The president had been sworn in barely two months when a bellicose Chinese delegation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-china-humiliates-bidens-secretary-state-us-soil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humiliated Blinken<\/a> and his diplomatic team during a high-level meeting in Alaska in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In short, China is dominating the Biden administration and the relationship between Washington and Beijing in a way it couldn\u2019t even dream of when former President Donald Trump was in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Tom Elliott summed up the situation nicely in a painfully accurate Twitter post:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To summarize:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blinken canceled a trip to China after Chinese spying on U.S. bases<br \/>\n\u2014 China does nothing to thaw relations<br \/>\n\u2014 Blinken nonetheless goes to China &#038; kowtows, knifing Taiwan in the back<br \/>\n\u2014 China berates Blinken<br \/>\n\u2014 U.S. leaves looking weak, having accomplished nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sPZv7dJ4JT\">https:\/\/t.co\/sPZv7dJ4JT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1670864624399405056?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Plenty of social media users agreed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you need more proof of how ridiculously fragile America is now:<\/p>\n<p>China has learned how to perfectly mimic the \u201cDo better!\u201d complaining from the Left and is now using it against the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>For which Biden and Blinken will be only too happy to bend the knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 And Don\u2019t Call Me Shirley. (@Meme_Behavior) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Meme_Behavior\/status\/1670867291573977100?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Biden administration has accomplished this kind of thing all over the world. It\u2019s part of their \u201cWar through Incompetence\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JohnOU81 (@Stopthemadns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stopthemadns\/status\/1670900866633588737?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden admin in a nutshell<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wombat65 (@Wombat652) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wombat652\/status\/1670865307525578793?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And since leftists the world over \u2014 but particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/david-harsanyi-dems-spent-4-years-comparing-trump-hitler-now-offended-nazi-analogies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats in Congress<\/a> \u2014 were so happy to draw Nazi analogies to the White House during the Trump years, there was this one, which was particularly appropriate:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eerily similar to how Hitler treated the Allied ambassadors and even Chamberlain\u2026minus the \u201ceerily\u201d part. This is the totalitarian playbook.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gwhizkids (@gwhizkids) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gwhizkids\/status\/1670936370360057857?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEerily similar to how Hitler treated the Allied ambassadors and even Chamberlain\u2026minus the \u2018eerily\u2019 part,\u201d the user wrote. \u201cThis is the totalitarian playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reference, of course, is to the Munich Agreement of 1938, where then-British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to German dictator Adolph Hitler\u2019s homeland to receive a tongue-lashing and sign a humiliating document he claimed would guarantee \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/chamberlain-declares-peace-for-our-time-75-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peace for our time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t, of course, because appeasing dictatorships guarantees nothing more than further aggression \u2014 of the kind China is engaging in now.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with bullies requires the strength and determination to do it \u2014 something Biden should remember from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-compulsive-liar-fits-definition-keeps-telling-fake-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his \u201cCorn Pop\u201d days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the country, the man in the White House has neither.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s because the president is compromised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-strange-response-reporter-confronts-alleged-bribery-tapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own corruption<\/a> or whether it\u2019s because he\u2019s inculcated too much of the \u201cblame America first\u201d ethos of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dan-crenshaw-blasts-dem-response-soleimani-killing-blame-america-first-crowd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a>, it\u2019s all too clear that China has taken the upper hand in its relationship with the United States, and the people of its targeted countries \u2014 starting with Taiwan \u2014 who are going to pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>If CNN is seeing weakness, it\u2019s a rock-solid bet that the rest of the world is seeing it, too.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-cnn-cant-help-admit-biden-admin-just-got-steamrolled-china\/\">Even CNN Can&#8217;t Help But Admit the Biden Admin Just Got Steamrolled by China<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how hard they try to spin it. CNN anchor Jim Sciutto admitted the Biden administration&#8217;s vulnerability during Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s visit to China. This revelation raises concerns about the US&#8217;s ability to handle an increasingly assertive Asian power, regardless of their efforts to downplay the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":1951894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[548],"tags":[10179,7337,3620,4501,9373,5505,28098],"class_list":["post-1951893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-acknowledges","tag-administrations","tag-biden","tag-china","tag-cnn","tag-defeat","tag-reluctantly"],"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\/1951893","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\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}