November 13, 2024
Who exactly is Beijing trying to fool?
The Communist regime may be used to lying to its own people, but it is finding it can’t use the same tactics with the rest of the world.
The Communist regime may be used to lying to its own people, but it is finding it can’t use the same tactics with the rest of the world.

China’s government appears set to launch itself into the post-COVID future committed to a diplomatic approach based on some simple notions: if insults don’t work, try threats. If that fails, go back to insults.

Geng Shuang, Beijing’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, got in an early bit of abuse when he responded to a German envoy’s plea to release Canada’s two Michaels, Spavor and Kovrig, as a Christmas gesture. Noting that the German diplomat’s tenure on the Security Council was about to end, Geng sneered: “Out of the bottom of my heart: good riddance.”

China also used the festive season to start the trial of 12 people arrested in Hong Kong for the crime of trying to flee to Taiwan. The accused hoped to escape draconian new security laws imposed by Beijing to stop locals from claiming the right to say what they think. That’s pretty much forbidden now, if it happens to offend Beijing’s official view on acceptable thought.

As if to emphasize how little it thinks of things like rights, the trial was held in secret and adjourned without a word about the outcome. When a U.S. official criticized the situation, China issued the usual demand to “immediately stop interfering in China’s internal affairs.”

Given that this is supposed to be a time of year of contemplation and assessment, you have to wonder what President Xi Jinping and his coterie of heavies think they are accomplishing. It’s generally known that Xi is set on elevating China’s international stature, but doing so by attacking, insulting, threatening or persecuting people, either at home or abroad, seems an odd way of doing it.

[Interesting Read]

See Also:

(1) A United Europe Aligning With China Would Be A Disaster For The United States

(2) China ‘simply a fragile dictatorship, afraid of its own people’ says US Sec. of State after jailing of activists

(3) HKFP Lens: Hong Kong in 2020 – four waves of Covid-19 and a crackdown on dissent

(4) Trump was briefed that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack U.S. forces in Afghanistan

(5) China to cut subsidies on electrified vehicles by 20% in 2021

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BTDT
BTDT
January 2, 2021 1:36 pm

Multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded agencies, CIA/FBI/NSA etc. are tasked with protecting the United States from enemies both foreign and domestic. For too many years, and especially under 8 yrs of Obama, these agencies were politicised, corrupted and re-focused on domestic political opponents. All the while China enjoyed pretty much a free pass to do what China knows how to do best. Infiltrate, corrupt, bride and blackmail it’s enemy’s political leaders and public influencers (media). It is not conspiracy thinking to suggest that China has also got its dirty hands deep inside Canada just as it does America. China is not a ‘one trick pony’. There are plenty of points of interest on China’s One Belt One Road map. Canada will assuredly be one of them. Only a damn imbecile would think otherwise. China is a much bigger threat to America (and Canada) that the public can possibly imagine.

The National Pulse today is publishing a comprehensive list of all current and former elected U.S. officials who participated in sponsored trips to China on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party-tied China-United States Exchange Foundation.

The full list follows a National Pulse exposé on media participants of the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) sponsored trip to China – the Communist Party-linked propaganda group seeking “favorable coverage” from U.S. institutions.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/former-reps-sponsored-trips-to-china/