{"id":1952702,"date":"2023-06-21T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-beijing-used-blinken-visit-as-great-propaganda-coup-analysts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:26:41","slug":"in-depth-beijing-used-blinken-visit-as-great-propaganda-coup-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-beijing-used-blinken-visit-as-great-propaganda-coup-analysts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts claim Beijing turned Blinken&#8217;s visit into a successful propaganda coup."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fin-depth-beijing-used-blinken-visit-as-great-propaganda-coup-analysts-say%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=1952702&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0621\/c80a4731-4990-4672-b6cf-dc7f4b2498a8\/audio.mp3?length=5963373&#038;duration=497\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s trip to China gave Beijing the perfect opportunity to stage a propaganda coup while bringing little benefit to America, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day trip\u2014marking the first such visit by a U.S. top diplomat in five years\u2014ended on June 19 with Blinken holding talks with Chinese foreign minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/blinken-meets-chinese-foreign-minister-in-a-rare-trip-to-beijing-amid-criticism-and-dim-hopes-for-progress_5340477.html\">Qin Gang<\/a>, Beijing\u2019s top-ranking diplomat Wang Yi, and for just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/blinken-had-robust-conversation-with-chinas-xi-wrapping-up-a-rare-trip-to-beijing-amid-criticism_5341732.html\">over half an hour<\/a>, the regime leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has cast these meetings in a positive light. Blinken, who has raised issues from Taiwan to human rights to the Chinese spy base in Cuba, has described the conversations as \u201crobust\u201d and \u201cconstructive,\u201d and a chance to inject greater stability into an increasingly unstable relationship.<\/p>\n<p>But for long-time China watchers and those who have been advocating for a stronger stance on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the meetings seem far from fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly those who equate dialogue with accomplishment could believe that Blinken\u2019s visit was a success,\u201d June Teufel Dreyer, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-back-on-court-packing-attempts-in-us-history\/\" title=\"A Look Back On \u2018Court Packing\u2019 Attempts in US History\">political science professor<\/a> at the University of Miami, told The Epoch Times. \u201cThe chief takeaway, if one can call it that, from the meeting was the decision to hold more meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018More Symbolic Than Substantial\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/xi-rejects-us-bid-for-a-military-crisis-hotline-blinken_5342478.html\">rejected repeated calls<\/a> from Blinken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-beijing-used-blinken-visit-as-great-propaganda-coup-analysts-say\/\" title=\"Analysts claim Beijing turned Blinken's visit into a successful propaganda coup.\">resume bilateral military exchanges<\/a>, which was one of the key objectives the United States had aimed to achieve. Be it about the fentanyl precursor outflow from China, the arbitrary detention of Americans such as Texas businessman Mark Swidan who is now on death row, or other issues Blinken has flagged, few tangible commitments appeared to have come out of the roughly 11 hours of talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to have success on every issue between us on any given day, but in a whole variety of areas\u2014on the terms that we set for this trip\u2014we have made progress and we are moving forward,\u201d Blinken told reporters after meeting with Xi, arguing that resolving issues with China is \u201ca process.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5346040\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/21\/id5346040-GettyImages-1258808116-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Several Republican lawmakers and former Trump administration officials don\u2019t see it this way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trip is more symbolic than substantial,\u201d Miles Yu, the principal China policy adviser to Blinken\u2019s predecessor, Mike Pompeo, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina always wants to have a process, and in the process, China will impose onto the United States the terms of the cooperation in their favor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The same holds true for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-trip-a-great-propaganda-coup-for-beijing-analysts\/\" title=\"Blinken Trip Boosts Beijing's Propaganda: Analysts\">creating bilateral military communication lines<\/a>, said Yu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, China wants to extract as much concession from the U.S. as possible by delaying this, while behaving cantankerously and dangerously provocative in the meantime to raise the tension,\u201d he said, noting that just hours after Blinken left China, Beijing had stepped up its now near daily military harassment of Taiwan, the democratic island it has sought to seize as its own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is almost like slow-move blackmailing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Propaganda Coup\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s reception was fairly muted upon his arrival in Beijing. Greeting him at the airport was one lone Chinese foreign ministry official, with no red carpet nor welcoming, flower-carrying crowds. Curious spectators also drew attention to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-claimed-she-received-threatening-letters-video-footage-showed-she-sent-them-to-herself\/\" title=\"She Claimed She Received Threatening Letters. Video Footage Showed She Sent Them To Herself.\">red line drawn<\/a> on the runway, musing on social media whether it was a signal from the regime on the \u201cred line\u201d issues\u2014including Taiwan\u2014it has warned Washington not to cross.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5346034\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/21\/id5346034-APTOPIX_China_US_Blinken_23169000504699-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Despite Xi, the regime leader, pronouncing it \u201cvery good\u201d that the \u201c\u200b\u200btwo sides have also made progress and reached agreement on some specific issues,\u201d he held off confirming the expected meeting until the very last moment: an hour before it started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s successful for the Chinese because China used this opportunity to show its contempt for America,\u201d said Yu, who saw Beijing\u2019s greeting for Blinken as a deliberate snub.<\/p>\n<p>Even the seating arrangement appeared to denote a subtle power play. Xi, during the June 19 meeting, presided as the head of the table while having Blinken sit to his right. It was a departure from Xi\u2019s meeting with Pompeo in June 2018, where the two sat side by side with a table in between, an arrangement that put the two more on equal footing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5342267\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/19\/id5342267-GettyImages-1258808843-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2562692\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14\/GettyImages-974307150-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>In Yu\u2019s eyes, it was as if Xi was presenting himself as an \u201cemperor lecturing Americans, imposing his image on the secretary of state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all for optics for the Chinese,\u201d he said. \u201cThey believe the Biden team is kind of weak and eager to get China\u2019s cooperation, so they exploited that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Blinken had \u201caccepted it without complaint\u201d showed the \u201cweakness of Biden administration policy,\u201d according to Gordon Chang, author of \u201cThe Coming Collapse of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Westerners might not think much of the image elements, for the regime and its neighbors in Taiwan, these hidden meanings are not lost, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bIt says that China basically believes the U.S. was no longer a force in global affairs,\u201d Chang said in an interview on EpochTV\u2019s Crossroads program.<\/p>\n<p>The view is the same from Peter Navarro, who served as a trade adviser under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great propaganda coup for the dictator Xi Jinping,\u201d he told The Epoch Times. \u201cIt\u2019s puzzling to understand why Blinken even went, because other than paving the way for more face-to-face meetings between Biden and Xi, which will do nothing, there\u2019s nothing there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Dialogue Is a \u2018Trap\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Lawmakers like Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who believes in the need for a tougher China stance, also take a dim view of the prospect of engaging with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] diplomats told Secretary Blinken that the US must choose between cooperation with China and conflict,\u201d Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, told The Epoch Times. \u201cThe CCP seeks to paint any competitive action that does not further its authoritarian vision as a provocation. The Biden Administration must push back against this insidious framing, and not-so-veiled threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly one party seeks to upend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-promises-strong-and-resolute-measures-in-response-to-mccarthy-meeting-in-taiwan\/\" title=\"China Promises \u201cStrong and Resolute Measures\u201d in Response to McCarthy Meeting in Taiwan\">peaceful status quo<\/a> in the Taiwan Strait, only one party is committing genocide, only one<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts argue that Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s recent visit to China allowed Beijing to orchestrate a propaganda victory, offering minimal gains for the United States. 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