Biden Crashes Down the Stairs of U.S.-China Reset, by Finian Cunningham

Biden would manage to lose a game of poker with five aces. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.org:

Forked-tongued American politicians should be repudiated until Washington actually begins to behave as a law-abiding entity.

Joe Biden’s penchant for tripping over his feet – and verbally – couldn’t have happened at a most unfortunate moment. Mocking China’s president as a “dictator” just when his administration attempted a big reset in U.S.-China relations has to rank as one of Biden’s clumsiest gaffes.

A day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China in a high-profile attempt to mend frayed relations, Biden kicked those efforts in the teeth by telling a crowd in California that Chinese President Xi was a dictator.

Beijing responded furiously, denouncing the American president’s “extreme” disrespect and lack of etiquette. China’s anger is no doubt reinforced because it showed magnanimity in receiving Blinken and affording him a top-level diplomatic meeting with President Xi Jinping.

Biden’s latest gaffe is made all the more absurd because he was referring to the incident of a Chinese weather balloon that had strayed over U.S. territory in February, which Biden ordered an F-16 fighter jet to shoot down with a sidewinder missile. Biden is still claiming that it was a Chinese spy balloon even though the Washington Post had reported earlier that it was a meteorological aircraft blown off course whose errant trans-Pacific course was being monitored in real-time by the Americans.

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One response to “Biden Crashes Down the Stairs of U.S.-China Reset, by Finian Cunningham

  1. Paperbag Writer's avatar Paperbag Writer

    It signs the orders with its pen or else it gets the stairs again.

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