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In March, we reported on a meeting in Anchorage, AK with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his team meeting with their Chinese counterparts.
We noted that after Blinken’s opening remarks, warning the Chinese to follow “rules-based international order,” and the follow-up by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who told the delegation the U.S. would not tolerate Chinese “economic and military coercion to assaults on basic values,” the Chinese delegation, in Mandarin, told them to go “F” themselves.
It was the first between the two countries since President Biden took office. We had forecast that, as with the Trump administration, China would not submit to U.S. demands and will do as it pleases.
One of the key topics discussed was human rights. Blinken mentioned Xinjiang and the crackdown in Hong Kong. His Chinese counterpart mentioned the Black Lives Matter movement and how “many people in the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.”
Yang Jiechi, the top diplomat from China, said the U.S. took a “condescending” approach to the meeting and essentially said Washington should get its house in order before accusing other countries of human rights abuses.
“I don’t think the overwhelming majority of countries in the world would recognize the universal values advocated by the United States, or that the opinions of the United States could represent international public opinion,” Jiechi said. He also said it was unlikely the “international order” would follow the guidelines put in place by a “small number of people.”
FU Again
Last week, it was reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made three attempts to request a meeting with his Chinese counterpart as tension grows in the South China Sea, but Beijing has refused the meetings on all three occasions, according to a report.
The Financial Times, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, reported that U.S. officials want the meeting with General Xu Qiliang, the vice-chair of China’s Central Military Commission, to help ease tension between the two countries, especially after the tense meeting in Alaska last March.
“The Chinese military has not been responsive,” a U.S. defense official to the FT.
The Associated Press reported last Thursday that China voiced its displeasure over U.S. naval activity in the South China Sea. Beijing accused the USS Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, of illegally entering its waters around the Paracel Island group.
The U.S.’s Seventh Fleet said in response that it has the right to navigate the waters.
“Unlawful and sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas, including the freedoms of navigation and overflight, free trade and unimpeded commerce, and freedom of economic opportunity for South China Sea littoral nations,” a statement read.
The FT reported that China flew more fighters and bombers into Taiwan’s airspace in March than ever.
TREND FORECAST: In January, China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Wu Qian, said, “The PLA will take all necessary measures to resolutely defeat any attempt by the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists, and firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity” and that Taiwan is an “inalienable part of China.”
In our 30 March article, “CHINA TO TAKE TAIWAN: A MATTER OF TIME,” we forecast that at some point, China, as with Hong Kong, would take complete control of Taiwan, and no one – including the U.S. military, which has not won a war since World War II – would stop them.
As we have also reported in the Trends Journal, President Biden and his administration view China as the top threat to the U.S. over the next decade. Biden went so far as to say he would not allow Beijing to surpass Washington on his watch. (See our 23 February article, “TOP TRENDS 2021: THE RISE OF CHINA” and our 16 February article, “CHINA TASK FORCE: U.S. APPROACH TO BEIJING.”)
This latest incident illustrates that China will do as it wishes when it wishes, as they move toward global domination. Not only is the U.S. military no threat to China, before this decade’s end, they will also outgun the United States as the world’s #1 economic powerhouse.
As we have forecast, the 20th century was the American century; the 21st century will be China’s.
The business of China is business. The business of America – as clearly spoken by President Dwight Eisenhower in his 17 January 1961 farewell address – is war. The two-term president, five-star general, and Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during World War II warned the nation that the military-industrial complex was robbing the nation of “the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [and] the hopes of its children.”
Indeed, as America keeps sinking lower, this year, despite the financial devastation that has ruined millions of lives and livelihoods, President Biden is pushing for a $715 billion Defense Department, up 1.6 percent from last year’s record-breaker that enriches the military/industrial/intelligence complex.