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US President Joe Biden (78) is improving rhetorically. That appeared twice this week.
In the first high-ranking meeting between the United States and China since Biden took office, shreds flew between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (58) and his Chinese colleague Yang Jiechi (70) for diplomatic purposes.
He was “deeply concerned” about the human rights situation in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region, where the Uighur ethnic minority lives, Blinken said at the beginning of the talks in Alaska.
Blinken: “China threatens global stability”
Instead of the usual polite phrases, Biden’s husband accused the People’s Republic of cyberattacks, extortion of US allies and politics in Taiwan. “Each of these actions threatens the rule-based framework that preserves global stability,” Blinken said. In January, the United States had already sent the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to the South China Sea, which China largely claims.
China gave back. Xinjiang and Taiwan are “internal affairs,” said Yang Jiechi, the Communist Party’s top foreign policy official. Americans should look at themselves.
China criticizes the human rights situation in the US.
“There are many human rights problems in the United States,” Yang said of racism and police violence. US Secretary of State Blinken objected.
The United States government was as conflicted with Moscow as it was with Beijing. In a television interview, Joe Biden threatened Russia for interfering in the US elections and called Putin a “murderer.”
Biden wants to strengthen his negotiating position
The head of the Kremlin responded quickly. Vladimir Putin said that Biden should not infer from others. For the first time in more than 20 years, Russia ordered its ambassador to the United States to return to Moscow. Biden’s words were a mistake, many media commented.
Russian expert Susan Stewart disagrees. “For a good starting position in the upcoming negotiations, Biden has to show that he is following a hard line towards Russia,” Stewart told SonntagsBlick. «Russia respects force. If the Russian leadership recognizes the weakness, it will use it to its advantage. “
He knows the head of the Kremlin “very well,” emphasized Biden in an interview. That is the most important thing when it comes to foreign heads of state and government.
In that case, everything should go according to plan in China too: as vice president, Biden had already had around 25 private meetings with Xi Jinping (67). Probably no Western politician knows the president of China better than he.
Posted: March 21, 2021, 7:00 pm
