{"id":1952847,"date":"2023-06-21T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinkens-beijing-trip-accomplished-nothing-but-u-s-humiliation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:14:05","slug":"blinkens-beijing-trip-accomplished-nothing-but-u-s-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinkens-beijing-trip-accomplished-nothing-but-u-s-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken&#8217;s Beijing visit yielded no results, only humiliating the U.S."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fblinkens-beijing-trip-accomplished-nothing-but-u-s-humiliation%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=1952847&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=\"article-content\">\n<h2>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s Trip to Beijing: A Humiliating Experience<\/h2>\n<p>United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his two-day trip to Beijing. Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/xenmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post-meeting readouts and reports<\/a>, there was little breakthrough. Beijing took full advantage of the opportunity to humiliate Blinken and the United States from the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken was supposed to visit Beijing in early February. He postponed his trip after Americans spotted a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/06\/in-spy-balloon-faceoff-between-the-u-s-and-red-china-everyone-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese spy balloon<\/a> floating in the sky, which sparked public fury. But since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-claims-spy-balloon-floating-over-us-nuclear-sites-is-for-scientific-research\/\" title=\"China Claims Spy Balloon Floating Over US Nuclear Sites Is for 'Scientific Research'\">spy balloon incident<\/a>, the CCP has done little to improve the Sino-U.S. relationship. The senior leadership of the Chinese military refused to pick up their U.S. counterpart\u2019s phone calls or requests for meetings. Instead, the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s fighter jets and warships conducted several aggressive maneuvers near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/30\/united-states-calls-out-china-unnecessarily-aggressive-maneuver-00099309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a U.S. Navy surveillance plane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9743650\/china-warship-nearly-hits-us-destroyer-taiwan-strait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a destroyer over the South China Sea<\/a>, endangering all parties involved. Yet the Chinese defense minister justified the PLA\u2019s provocative actions with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilyZFeng\/status\/1665185397779955713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflammatory remarks<\/a>, warning the U.S. to \u201cmind your own business.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, U.S. media discovered the Chinese spy balloon shot down by the U.S. military in February was not some kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinkens-beijing-trip-accomplished-nothing-but-u-s-humiliation\/\" title=\"Blinken's Beijing visit yielded no results, only humiliating the U.S.\">low-tech \u201csilly balloon<\/a>,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/02\/16\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-united-states-response-to-recent-aerial-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Biden<\/a> claimed. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/03\/chinese-spy-balloon-gathered-intelligence-from-sensitive-us-military-sites-despite-us-efforts-to-block-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stefanik-demands-intel-briefing-on-chinese-spy-balloon\/\" title=\"Stefanik Demands Intel Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon\">spy balloon \u201c<\/a>was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites. \u2026 China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, the American public also learned that China is going to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CKBtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">establish an electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba<\/a>, which \u201cwould allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S., where many military bases are located, and monitor U.S. ship traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are all troubling signs that the CCP is determined to make Americans feel unsafe in our own backyard.<\/p>\n<p>But despite Beijing\u2019s provocative words and behaviors, Biden decided that engagement with Beijing without any set preconditions is what is needed now. In return, Beijing has treated the Biden administration\u2019s olive branch as an incentive to behave even more antagonistically.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Before Blinken began his trip, he received a strongly worded rebuke from China\u2019s Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china-foreign-minister-tells-blinken-us-should-respect-chinas-core-concerns-2023-06-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed<\/a> the U.S. for the two nations\u2019 worsening relationship and told Blinken to \u201cstop interfering in China\u2019s internal affairs\u2026\u201d China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earlier-detection-could-have-helped-contain-the-outbreak-who-finds-92-people-had-virus-like-symptoms-in-china-in-october-2019\/\" title=\"\u2018Earlier Detection Could Have Helped Contain The Outbreak\u2019: WHO Finds 92 People Had Virus-Like Symptoms In China In October 2019\">foreign ministry spokesman<\/a> followed up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/NEWS\/CHINA\/DIPLOMACY\/ARTICLE\/3224381\/AHEAD-BLINKEN-VISIT-CHINA-URGES-US-AVOID-ILLUSION-STRENGTH?MODULE=LEAD_HERO_STORY&#038;PGTYPE=HOMEPAGE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> \u201cthe U.S. should not have the illusion of dealing with China from a position of strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After Blinken touched down in Beijing, the CCP humiliated him \u2014 and, consequently, the U.S. \u2014 in optics and language. Every senior Chinese official Blinken met has put the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/xenmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">onus<\/a> on the U.S. to \u201creverse the downward spiral\u201d in Sino-U.S. relations. To snub the U.S. diplomat further, the CCP\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, met with U.S. businessman Bill Gates before Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s much-anticipated meeting with Xi lasted only about half an hour, and the optics were terrible. Like an emperor receiving a representative from a tributary state, Xi waited for Blinken to walk toward him. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArthurSchwartz\/status\/1670796011529175048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handshake image<\/a> between the two showed Xi standing tall and looking arrogant while Blinken was in an awkward, almost half-bow position.<\/p>\n<p>During their meeting, Xi repeated his subordinate\u2019s accusations that the U.S. was solely responsible for the deterioration of relations between the two countries, and he lectured Blinken to \u201cmake more positive contributions to stabilize U.S.-China relations,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/xi-jinping-to-meet-blinken-monday-as-u-s-china-resume-high-level-engagement-c898f541?st=g41f3ccypafd2zb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration wants us to believe that optics with the CCP don\u2019t matter. Instead, they tell us what\u2019s said behind the scene really counts. But how can the U.S. maintain the confidence of our allies and its role as the leader of the free world when our officials are consistently being humiliated and scolded by CCP officials so publicly?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/18\/china\/blinken-china-visit-wang-yi-meeting-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> his trip to China had made \u201cprogress,\u201d but there were no real breakthroughs. Although Beijing agreed to resume some high-level exchanges (Beijing needs the U.S. market to rescue China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Kqcxp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struggling<\/a> economy), it rejected the Biden administration\u2019s request to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-beijing-in-talks-over-yellen-and-raimondo-trip-to-china\/\" title=\"US and Beijing in talks over Yellen and Raimondo trip to China\">military communication channel<\/a> between the two nations to address issues such as those dangerous close encounters near the Taiwan Strait. It\u2019s unclear whether Blinken even mentioned the Chinese spy balloon incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chinese state-run media gleefully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202306\/1292885.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a> that Blinken\u2019s recent declaration \u2014 \u201cWe [the U.S.] don\u2019t support the independence of Taiwan\u201d \u2014 was a sign of \u201cmove[ment] toward China\u2019s position.\u201d Of course, the Chinese media conveniently neglected to mention that Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/why-bidens-contradictions-on-taiwan-are-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly committed<\/a> the U.S. military to Taiwan\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration and its supporters insist that engagement with Beijing is always a good thing, even when it generates no meaningful result. Such a belief demonstrates a willful ignorance of the CCP and historical evidence. The CCP usually demands concessions from the other side before it even agrees to engage. Often, party representatives engage solely to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/23\/3-key-takeaways-from-the-u-s-china-summit-in-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">score public relations points<\/a> with domestic and international audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the party manipulates engagement to buy the time it needs to achieve its real objective. For example, the CCP used its \u201cpeace talks\u201d with the Nationalist Party in 1945 to buy time to build up the CCP\u2019s military strength before launching a full-throated <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/09\/the-ccp-didnt-fight-imperial-japan-the-kmt-did\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">civil war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The West\u2019s more than three decades of engagement with China have neither changed the CCP\u2019s behavior nor have they made China democratic and free. Instead, the CCP has used these engagements to accumulate impressive economic and military resources. Now the emboldened Xi is seeking to rewrite the world order to his liking. To the CCP, engagement with anyone is always a \u201czero-sum\u201d game that one party wins. Or, as Heritage China expert Dean Chen famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cUls04aM92w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, a \u201c\u2018win-win\u2019 deal for China means China \u2018winning twice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a WSJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/zombie-engagement-with-beijing-biden-xi-spy-cuba-tech-human-rights-b79bc890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a>, Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., criticized the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agenzianova.com\/en\/news\/biden-opens-up-to-d%C3%A9tente-with-china-with-xi-soon-experiencing-a-thaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">d\u00e9tente<\/a> with Beijing as nothing more than reviving a zombie engagement policy that has failed before. He quoted Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn who once said: \u201cThe Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues to ignore history and is unwilling to learn.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his brief visit to Beijing, with minimal progress achieved. Reports suggest that Beijing seized every chance to embarrass both Blinken and the United States throughout the meetings. Originally scheduled for early February, Blinken&#8217;s trip was delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1952848,"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":[],"tags":[4290,25605,26689,6538,7238,7241,14355],"class_list":["post-1952847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-beijing","tag-blinkens","tag-humiliating","tag-results","tag-u-s","tag-visit","tag-yielded"],"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\/1952847","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}