Fed up with Anglo-American orchestrated attacks, China finally draws a line in the sand
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Source: Xi Jinping - China's Exceptional President (A Facebook Group)
China spells out the bottom line to US: stop your master/slave mindset in relations with the nations of the world. "If the US has not learned to treat other countries equally, China and the international community have the responsibility to help the US learn how to do this."--China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Credit: Luciana Bohne)
China spells out the bottom line to US: stop your master/slave mindset in relations with the nations of the world. "If the US has not learned to treat other countries equally, China and the international community have the responsibility to help the US learn how to do this."--China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Credit: Luciana Bohne)
CHINA VS. USA: A TURNING POINT
After putting up with nearly four years of relentlessly provocative assaults from the US, China has made a decisive, historic change in its approach to bilateral relations.
The two high-level meetings in Anchorage and Tianjin will be seen as watersheds marking Beijing's genuine pushback to Washington's trademark bullying -- a turn from defensive to full counteroffensive mode.
As a new, keynote editorial in the CPC-run Global Times puts it (link 1 below):
"We will no longer make unilateral efforts to maintain the public opinion atmosphere in China-US relations.
Using illegal sanctions as a pretext, the US, aided by Canada, has effectively kidnapped a high-ranking Chinese corporate official, Meng Wanzhou, and is still threatening her with possible imprisonment. No other nation behaves so brazenly in defiance of international norms.
"The basis for such changes is that Chinese society has become fed up with the bossy US and we hold no more illusion that China and the US would substantially improve ties in the foreseeable future. The Chinese public strongly supports the government to safeguard national dignity in its ties with the US and firmly push back the various provocations from the US. In the face of the malicious China containment and confrontational policy adopted by the two recent US administrations, the Chinese people are willing to form a united front, together bear the consequences of not yielding to the US, and win for the country's future through struggles.
"In other words, Chinese society would unconditionally support whatever tough counterattacks the Chinese government would launch in the face of US-initiated conflicts in all directions toward China. The US should abandon forever the idea of changing China's system and policies through sanctions, containment and intimidation."
And for the allies-vassals faithfully following Washington's Sinophobic moves, a warning:
"We hope US allies in the Asia-Pacific, especially Japan and Australia, can weigh the situation. They should not act as accomplices of the US' China containment policy and place themselves at the forefront of confronting China, or they are betting their own future."
After the tongue-lashing by her counterpart Xie Feng (link 3 below), US State Department No. 2 Wendy Sherman was received by FM Wang Yi. Wang spelled out further China's requirements for improved ties. According to Global Times (link 2), they were:
"The US should not challenge, smear or seek to subvert the Chinese path and system, should not seek to interrupt or disrupt China's development, should not violate China's national sovereignty or territorial integrity."
Over to you, Washington.
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Bobo Choi
Beijing thrusts long lists of demands at Biden administration. China shows no sign of toning down the harsh rhetoric with the U.S. during the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who on Monday held “frank and open” talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and one of his deputies in the Chinese city of Tianjin.
北京向拜登政府提出了一長串要求。 在副國務卿溫迪·謝爾曼訪問期間，中國沒有表現出緩和對美強硬言論的跡象，謝爾曼週一在中國天津市與外交部長王毅及其一名副手進行了“坦率和公開”的會談. By Stuart Lau
Underscoring an increasingly adversarial relationship between the world’s two richest superpowers, Chinese officials accused the U.S. of “coercive diplomacy,” questioned the moral high ground with which the U.S. has mustered a coalition of international partners against it and warned the U.S. to stop meddling in Taiwan or Xinjiang issues.
They also presented Sherman with two lists of action — the lists included revoking sanctions on Communist Party officials, lifting visa bans for students, making life easier for state-affiliated journalists and reopening the door for Confucius Institutes — in the hope that Washington, D.C., will follow through.
“The U.S. side is in no position to lecture China on democracy and human rights,” Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman, adding that the U.S. was once “engaged in genocide against Native Americans.” [He could have just as well quoted the record of US foreign policy since the close of WW2—an unbroken chain of international crimes of appalling magnitude.—Eds.)
China has not yet released details of Wang’s meeting with Sherman, which took place in a hotel compound modeled on millenia-old Chinese architecture in Tianjin, a coastal city not far from Beijing.
U.S. attempts to separate climate change cooperation from economic competition or human rights criticisms wouldn’t work, according to Chinese officials.
“Chinese people look at things with eyes wide open. They see the competitive, collaborative and adversarial rhetoric as a thinly veiled attempt to contain and suppress China,” Xie said. “They feel that the real emphasis is on the adversarial aspect.”
“U.S. policy seems to be demanding cooperation when it wants something from China; decoupling, cutting off supplies, blockading or sanctioning China when it believes it has an advantage; and resorting to conflict and confrontation at all costs,” Xie said.
The strong response came despite Sherman’s attempt to reassure her Chinese interlocutors that the U.S. was trying to prevent confrontation.
“The Deputy Secretary and State Councilor Wang had a frank and open discussion about a range of issues, demonstrating the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our two countries,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. “They discussed ways to set terms for responsible management of the U.S.-China relationship. The Deputy Secretary underscored that the United States welcomes the stiff competition between our countries — and that we intend to continue to strengthen our own competitive hand — but that we do not seek conflict with the PRC.”
Sherman raised several human rights issues with Wang, according to Price. Those included Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, as well as “concerns about Beijing’s conduct in cyberspace; across the Taiwan Strait; and in the East and South China Seas.”
Bobo Choi
Beijing thrusts long lists of demands at Biden administration. China shows no sign of toning down the harsh rhetoric with the U.S. during the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who on Monday held “frank and open” talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and one of his deputies in the Chinese city of Tianjin.
北京向拜登政府提出了一長串要求。 在副國務卿溫迪·謝爾曼訪問期間，中國沒有表現出緩和對美強硬言論的跡象，謝爾曼週一在中國天津市與外交部長王毅及其一名副手進行了“坦率和公開”的會談. By Stuart Lau
Underscoring an increasingly adversarial relationship between the world’s two richest superpowers, Chinese officials accused the U.S. of “coercive diplomacy,” questioned the moral high ground with which the U.S. has mustered a coalition of international partners against it and warned the U.S. to stop meddling in Taiwan or Xinjiang issues.
They also presented Sherman with two lists of action — the lists included revoking sanctions on Communist Party officials, lifting visa bans for students, making life easier for state-affiliated journalists and reopening the door for Confucius Institutes — in the hope that Washington, D.C., will follow through.
“The U.S. side is in no position to lecture China on democracy and human rights,” Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman, adding that the U.S. was once “engaged in genocide against Native Americans.” [He could have just as well quoted the record of US foreign policy since the close of WW2—an unbroken chain of international crimes of appalling magnitude.—Eds.)
China has not yet released details of Wang’s meeting with Sherman, which took place in a hotel compound modeled on millenia-old Chinese architecture in Tianjin, a coastal city not far from Beijing.
U.S. attempts to separate climate change cooperation from economic competition or human rights criticisms wouldn’t work, according to Chinese officials.
“Chinese people look at things with eyes wide open. They see the competitive, collaborative and adversarial rhetoric as a thinly veiled attempt to contain and suppress China,” Xie said. “They feel that the real emphasis is on the adversarial aspect.”
“U.S. policy seems to be demanding cooperation when it wants something from China; decoupling, cutting off supplies, blockading or sanctioning China when it believes it has an advantage; and resorting to conflict and confrontation at all costs,” Xie said.
The strong response came despite Sherman’s attempt to reassure her Chinese interlocutors that the U.S. was trying to prevent confrontation.
“The Deputy Secretary and State Councilor Wang had a frank and open discussion about a range of issues, demonstrating the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our two countries,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. “They discussed ways to set terms for responsible management of the U.S.-China relationship. The Deputy Secretary underscored that the United States welcomes the stiff competition between our countries — and that we intend to continue to strengthen our own competitive hand — but that we do not seek conflict with the PRC.”
Sherman raised several human rights issues with Wang, according to Price. Those included Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, as well as “concerns about Beijing’s conduct in cyberspace; across the Taiwan Strait; and in the East and South China Seas.”
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