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2021-02-03 China-Japan-Koreas
China Top Diplomat Warns Biden Not To Cross "Red Line" Of Interests
[Stars and Stripes] In a much anticipated speech which marked the first time China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, addressed an American audience under the new administration at the New York based National Committee on US-China Relations, the top Communist Party official warned the US it must stop interfering Beijing's "core interests" in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet affairs or else it risks crossing China's "red line".

Ostensibly a gesture signaling China wants cooperation with the US under Biden, Yang as director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission and member of the powerful 25-member Politburo, urged that Biden abandon Trump's "misguided policies against China" which has plunged the relationship into its "most difficult period since the establishment of diplomatic ties".

In the remote video address Yang laid out, "We believe that peace and development are still the prevailing trend of the times, and that peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation remain the shared aspiration of all peoples," according to Bloomberg.

Listing a number of flashpoints where already since his Jan.20 inauguration President Biden has eyed pressuring Beijing over human rights issues and anti-democracy crackdown, most notably Hong Kong and the Uighur persecution in northwest Xinjiang province (and of course Taiwan continues to loom large), Yang said forcefully:
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-03 02:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 Whatcha gonna do? Stop taking US dollars? Stop stealing US technology? Stop bribing US elite?
Posted by Snineling Flotle8716 2021-02-03 03:38||   2021-02-03 03:38|| Front Page Top

#2 XI Joe will not challenge his masters in China. His brother and son are set to make a lot of money from them.
Posted by Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-03 03:51||   2021-02-03 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 They're just giving him his cue to begin to fret and fume for the masses. Not Kabuki, Chinese opera. Almost everyone, from the Russians to the islamics, have to do this for every president.

The 'huff-and-puff' hostility will spiral down in time to some kind of 'understanding' so regular business can be legitimized despite the hatred for China.

'win-win cooperation' - Key words.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-02-03 05:41||   2021-02-03 05:41|| Front Page Top

#4  kow•tow kou-tou′, kou′tou″►

intransitive verb
To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.

To show servile deference. synonym: fawn.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-03 06:53||   2021-02-03 06:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Did this type of speech occur while the great Trump was in office?
Posted by Ulomomp Hupimble9527 2021-02-03 07:30||   2021-02-03 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems odd. I would have thought they'd just pass Jo-Jo's orders to him under the table. I guess they also want to make sure everyone knows who's running the show.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-02-03 07:37||   2021-02-03 07:37|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Andy Cromort3294 2021-02-03 09:56||   2021-02-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8  Did this type of speech occur while the great Trump was in office?

When he was pushing decoupling, Ulomomp Hupimble9527, absolutely. And the bien pensants shrieked and fainted (well beyond pearl clutching, they were) at his uncouth ignorance that was going to end up beggering us as a country beyond any hope of repair. But he persisted, and other nations took notice that there are options beyond supine surrender. That was when the world started looking for non-Chinese solutions, about a year ahead of the Covid debacle — and in fact Covid might well have been China’s "Après moi, le déluge" response.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-03 10:11||   2021-02-03 10:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Or China will release the next virus on us.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-03 10:59||   2021-02-03 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Or China will release the next virus on us.

Or copies of endorsed checks and bank transactions.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-02-03 11:24||   2021-02-03 11:24|| Front Page Top

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