{"id":568941,"date":"2021-06-20T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568941"},"modified":"2021-06-20T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:36:15","slug":"does-that-sound-like-not-taking-it-lying-down-dana-bash-challenges-bidens-national-security-adviser-on-pressuring-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-that-sound-like-not-taking-it-lying-down-dana-bash-challenges-bidens-national-security-adviser-on-pressuring-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Does That Sound Like Not Taking It Lying Down?\u2019: Dana Bash Challenges Biden\u2019s National Security Adviser On Pressuring 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\">38<\/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%2Fdoes-that-sound-like-not-taking-it-lying-down-dana-bash-challenges-bidens-national-security-adviser-on-pressuring-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=568941&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-20-at-11.52.05-AM-e1624209533529.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash challenged National Security adviser Jake Sullivan Sunday on President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to put pressure on the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/13\/pelosi-blocks-dana-bash-attempt-comment-nuking-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bash<\/a> spoke with Sullivan on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union\u201d and asked for specifics on what the Biden administration would do to ensure cooperation from the Chinese government in the continued search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/dana-bash-presses-cedric-richmond-biden-no-progressives-socialist-agenda\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Those Are His Words\u2019: Dana Bash Presses Cedric Richmond After Biden Says \u2018No\u2019 To Progressives\u2019 \u2018Socialist Agenda\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is stonewalling an investigation and you said we just can\u2019t take this lying down,\u201d Bash began. \u201cWhat does that mean in practical terms? If China won\u2019t allow access, will the U.S. consider action against China to increase the pressure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/18\/chris-wallace-challenges-jake-sullivan-comparison-iraq-withdrawal-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sullivan<\/a> said that there were two investigations being pursued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-balks-peter-doocy-chinese-president-xi-old-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden administration<\/a> \u2014 one run by the intelligence community and overrun by the World Health Organization (WHO) \u2014 and he acknowledged that access to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/dagen-mcdowell-mocks-g-7-members-posing-photos-demanding-answers-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China<\/a> was necessary to get answers. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/former-state-dept-investigator-david-asher-china-knows-covid-origins\/\">(RELATED: Former State Dept. Investigator Says If China\u2019s Not Asking For Help, They Probably Know COVID-19\u2019s Origins)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not, at this point, going to issue threats or ultimatums,\u201d Sullivan continued. \u201cWhat we\u2019re going to do is continue to rally support in the international community and if it turns out that China refuses to live up to its international obligations, we will have to consider our responses at that point and we will do so in concert with allies and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that sound like not taking it lying down?\u201d Bash pressed. \u201cSounds like giving them a lot of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, this is not a question of time, Dana,\u201d Sullivan replied. \u201cFirst of all, we are in the process of using our own capacities, our own capabilities to begin to develop a clearer picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan went on to say that Biden was working on strengthening diplomatic ties with the allies and partners he would need on his side if he determined that it was necessary to put additional pressure on China in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to simply accept China saying no,\u201d Sullivan concluded. \u201cBut we will work between now and when this second phase of the WHO investigation is fully underway to have as strong a consensus in the international community as possible because it is from that position of strength that we will best be able to deal with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others, such as former CDC Director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/robert-redfield-lab-leak-world-health-organization-china-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Redfield<\/a>, have raised the concern that the WHO is too \u201ccompromised\u201d to take charge of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, they were incapable of compelling China to adhere to the treaty agreements that they have on global health, because they didn\u2019t do that,\u201d Redfield told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/robert-redfield-cdc-covid-19-lab-leak-who-compromised\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cClearly, they allowed China to define the group of scientists that could come and investigate. That\u2019s not consistent with their role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash challenged National Security adviser Jake Sullivan Sunday on President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to put pressure on the Chinese Communist Party.Bash spoke with Sullivan on Sunday\u2019s broadcast &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280810,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-20-at-11.52.05-AM-e1624209533529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Does That Sound Like Not Taking It Lying Down?\u2019: Dana Bash Challenges Biden\u2019s National Security Adviser On Pressuring China","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-20-at-11.52.05-AM-e1624209533529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Does That Sound Like Not Taking It Lying Down?\u2019: Dana Bash Challenges Biden\u2019s National Security Adviser On Pressuring China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568941","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=568941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}