US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited China in an attempt to mend troubled relations between the two countries. Just a day after the end of the trip, a statement again caused discrepancies.
Less than two days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s “icebreaker trip,” where he was received in Beijing first by the Secretary of State, then by his superiors, the Communist Party’s top foreign politician, and finally by even state and party leader Xi Jinping is, US President Joe Biden is once again pouring oil into relations, which are just beginning to thaw again.
During a fundraiser for his Democratic Party in California, the US president unnecessarily compared his Chinese counterpart to a dictator.
“Embarrassing for Dictators”
The statement was about the suspected spy balloon from China, which was shot down over the United States in February, about which Xi would not have known. Biden said, “It’s very embarrassing for dictators when they don’t know what’s going on.”
Beijing reacted very angrily: by comparing Xi to a dictator, Biden had seriously violated the political dignity of the People’s Republic. This amounts to a public political provocation. China is very dissatisfied and rejects the statement.
Found food for Russia
The Russian leadership, which is increasingly trying to close ranks with China in the course of the war in Ukraine, immediately criticized it. The reference to Biden’s dictator once again shows how inconsistent, contradictory and unpredictable US foreign policy is, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow. “We have our own bad relationship with the United States of America and our very good relationship with the People’s Republic of China.”
Source: Krone
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