The Chinese Foreign Ministry appeared to confirm reports this week that American Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China in February, firmly asserting Beijing expects Blinken to “perceive China correctly” and “work with China in the same direction.”
Senior Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi berated U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to make Washington “correct its strategic perceptions of China” and “make the right choices” in a reportedly four-and-a-half-hour meeting on Monday that the White House and Chinese state media both reported featured little input from Sullivan.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned America on Tuesday it would “welcome with shotguns” and “jackals” anyone seeking to support Taiwan. The threat came a day after President Joe Biden claimed America had a “commitment” to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion and less than a month after a man opened fire on a Taiwanese church group in California, allegedly driven by Chinese nationalist “hate.”
Multiple top Chinese diplomats threatened that America would “pay the price” if it continued to support the government of Taiwan and said that accepting the existence of a Taiwanese state would lead to “dangerous situations” – less than a week after a suspected Chinese nationalist opened fire at a Taiwanese church luncheon in California.
High-ranking Chinese Politburo official Yang Jiechi – the hardline attack dog China unleashed against a stunned Biden administration back in March 2021 – penned an op-ed for Chinese state media on Monday in which he insisted, despite copious evidence to the contrary, that China’s economy is doing just fine despite the grueling coronavirus lockdowns imposed on Shanghai and other cities.
Senior Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi berated U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan over America’s support for Taiwan and opposition to genocide in an “intense” meeting on Monday that lasted seven hours, according to Chinese state media.
The Pentagon on Monday warned China there would be “consequences” if Beijing provides material support to Russia in its war against Ukraine.
China’s Foreign Ministry demanded the United States end “systemic racial discrimination” and “do some soul-searching” on Thursday in response to news that the U.S. Justice Department is reviewing a program to combat Chinese Communist Party espionage.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday touted the growing alliance between China and Russia as an opportunity to correct the “dangerous trend of disorder” spread around the world by U.S. policy under the Trump administration.
The Chinese government is using “racial themes” pushed by organizations like Black Lives Matter to undermine America, noted Gordon Chang.
China’s latest exercise of “sharp power” – using economic leverage to impose its political agenda on the free world – targets H&M, a Swedish fashion company. The clothing company was surprised to find itself threatened with boycotts and banned by major Chinese e-commerce platforms Wednesday over months-old social media posts expressing concern about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor in Xinjiang province.
Chinese state media was very enthusiastic about the confrontation between U.S. and Chinese diplomatic representatives in Alaska this weekend, churning out a blizzard of editorials that congratulated Politburo member Yang Jiechi and other members of the Chinese team for humiliating U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Chinese state-run media celebrated the performance of senior diplomats Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi on Thursday in which they berated American counterparts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, on America’s alleged human rights abuses.
State Secretary Blinken announced that he and National Security Advisor Sullivan would stop in Alaska to meet with Chinese counterparts.
Senior Chinese foreign policy official Yang Jiechi, one of the top aides to dictator Xi Jinping, on Monday instructed President Joe Biden to abandon the “misguided policies” of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper, a mouthpiece for the more aggressive strain of Communist Party propaganda, published an outraged column on Thursday protesting that President Donald Trump’s diplomatic overtures do not match his strong stance against Chinese human right abuses.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody Johnson has placed blame on China for the coronavirus pandemic devastation that is sweeping the world, saying the country “tried to suppress the news.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo conveyed “strong objections” to Yang Jiechi, Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China, on Monday over what the State Department described as “PRC efforts to shift blame for COVID-19 to the United States.”
There was much anticipation over the expected rivalry between the United States and China at a global security conference in Munich over the weekend, given a sense among global elites that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and China is growing in stature.
