{"id":1972112,"date":"2023-07-13T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahead-of-beijing-trip-john-kerry-refuses-to-call-chinas-xi-a-dictator\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:17:28","slug":"ahead-of-beijing-trip-john-kerry-refuses-to-call-chinas-xi-a-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahead-of-beijing-trip-john-kerry-refuses-to-call-chinas-xi-a-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry avoids labeling China&#8217;s Xi as a dictator before Beijing visit."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fahead-of-beijing-trip-john-kerry-refuses-to-call-chinas-xi-a-dictator%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=1972112&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Ahead of Beijing Trip, John Kerry Refuses to Call China's Xi a Dictator\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails\" data-post-url id=\"print-1766580\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>In congressional testimony, Biden&#8217;s climate envoy doesn&#8217;t want to get tied up in &#8216;labels and names&#8217;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n          Getty Images<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate envoy John Kerry criticized Biden&#8217;s description of Chinese President Xi Jinping as a &#8220;dictator&#8221; during congressional testimony on Thursday, saying the Biden administration shouldn&#8217;t get &#8220;tangled up in labels and names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry&#8217;s comments come ahead of his visit to Beijing next week to discuss climate change issues. The former secretary of state who now serves as the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-walks-away-when-asked-about-the-sacrifices-hes-asking-american-workers-to-make-as-he-kills-thousands-of-jobs-video\/\" title=\"Biden Walks Away When Asked About the Sacrifices He\u2019s Asking American Workers to Make as He Kills Thousands of Jobs (VIDEO)\">special presidential envoy<\/a> for climate also told Congress that China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-announces-california-gubernatorial-run-as-newsom-recall-nears-threshold\/\" title=\"Republican Announces California Gubernatorial Run as Newsom Recall Nears Threshold\">human rights violations<\/a> shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;showstoppers&#8221; that hinder climate negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>When Kerry was asked by Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) if he agreed with Biden&#8217;s recent statement that Xi was a dictator, Kerry declined to say but conceded that Xi &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-transdemic\/\" title=\"America\u2019s Transdemic\">wields enormous power<\/a> as the leader of China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frankly, all of that is water off a duck&#8217;s back, and I don&#8217;t think we ought to get tangled up in labels and names,&#8221; said Kerry during the hearing for the House Foreign Affairs Committee&#8217;s oversight and responsibility subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has stood by his description of Xi as a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; a comment that sent Beijing into a fury last month, with the Chinese embassy denouncing it as &#8220;political provocation against China\u2019s top leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry has advocated for soft treatment of China by overlooking its human rights violations. He supports increased imports of solar panels, an industry linked to China&#8217;s Uyghur slave labor. He said the Biden administration plans to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-court-jails-womens-rights-activist-posing-challenge-for-biden\/\" title=\"Saudi court jails women\u2019s rights activist, posing challenge for Biden\">human rights issues<\/a> separate from his climate meetings in Beijing. The climate envoy appeared to stand by his comments to Congress two years ago, when he said he didn&#8217;t believe human rights issues should have a role in climate negotiations because life is &#8220;full of tough choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t talk about them, but it means that they&#8217;re not going to become showstoppers,&#8221; Kerry said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry got into a testy exchange with Republican congressman Scott Perry (Pa.), who accused the climate envoy of &#8220;grifting&#8221; by exaggerating the threat of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>When Kerry claimed all world leaders agreed with his views on climate change, Perry shot back, &#8220;because they&#8217;re grifting like you, sir.&#8221; The comment drew disapproving murmurs from Democratic committee members.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Tex.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pressed Kerry over China&#8217;s self-declaration that it is a &#8220;developing nation,&#8221; which has allowed Beijing to avoid the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahead-of-beijing-trip-john-kerry-refuses-to-call-chinas-xi-a-dictator\/\" title=\"John Kerry avoids labeling China's Xi as a dictator before Beijing visit.\">tough carbon emissions reduction policies agreed<\/a> to by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How in the world can the second largest economy maintain to you and the rest of the world, with a straight face, that they&#8217;re a developing nation, giving them preferential treatment?&#8221; asked McCaul. &#8220;The American people understand fairness, and honestly they do not see this as fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry agreed with McCaul but said there was no chance that China would agree to drop its &#8220;developing nation&#8221; status during his upcoming visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen in this visit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In congressional testimony, Biden&#8217;s climate envoy, John Kerry, expressed disapproval of President Biden&#8217;s labeling of Chinese President Xi Jinping as a &#8220;dictator.&#8221; Kerry emphasized the need for the administration to avoid getting caught up in &#8220;labels and names.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1972113,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972112","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\/1972112","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}