Harsh comments in front of reporters at the first major meeting between the United States and China of the Biden era. “The United States is not qualified to speak to China from a position of power”

The first round of bilateral talks between senior representatives of the United States and China took place in Alaska on Thursday, for the first time since Joe Biden entered the White House. The two parties accused each other in front of journalists, according to adevarul.ro.

It does not happen very often at a high level that the tension between the two states is so obvious and especially in front of the representatives of the press. However, it happened in Alaska, where Antony Blinken, the head of US diplomacy, and Jake Sullivan, Biden’s top security adviser, exchanged reproaches with the head of Chinese diplomacy, Yang Jiechi, and state adviser Wang Yi.

“We will discuss our serious concerns about China’s actions, including the situation in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyberattacks against the United States, and economic coercion against our allies. Each of these actions threatens the rule-based order that maintains the global stability. “Blinken said, with Chinese officials across the table, from the opening moments of the speech.

Then it was Yang’s turn, who, in a 15-minute speech, pointed out his main problems with the United States. He spoke of what he called the questionable state of democracy in the United States, the treatment of minorities in the United States, and criticized Washington’s foreign and trade policy.

“The United States uses its military force and hegemony to control and suppress other states. It abuses so-called notions of national security to obstruct normal economic exchanges and incites some countries to attack China,” Yang said.

The tone of his speech is perhaps best summed up by the following observation: “I want to point out that here, vis-a-vis the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from above, from a position of power … ) America was not qualified to say such things even 20 or 30 years ago because that is not the way you interact with the Chinese people. “

“The United States is not qualified to speak to China from a position of power”

The statements continued in the same tone for more than an hour, until the press left the room. Quite a mess was created by this issue, the two sides could not agree on when the press would withdraw and continued to exchange sharp comments in front of journalists.

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