The U.S. secretary of state shows China that America’s greatness lies in its humility.
Eli LakeMarch 19, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just before his dustup. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac The first high-level Chinese-American summit of Joe Biden’s presidency unraveled before it began. In a moment reminiscent of the dueling bridal-shower speeches in “Bridesmaids,” the U.S. and Chinese delegations returned to the podium after initial remarks to offer sharp retorts to what had just been said.
At issue was America’s right to criticize Chinese repression. Said top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi: “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.” His message was clear: Don’t criticize us about Uyghur genocide or mass arrests in Hong Kong.
For a weak secretary of state, this would have been humiliation. An overconfident one would have pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of a senior Chinese official giving a lecture about democracy.
Antony Blinken showed he is neither. The U.S. will approach China with confidence, Blinken said, “even as we have the humility to know that we are a country eternally striving to become a more perfect union.” He added that the U.S. had a long history of confronting its demons, “not trying to ignore them, not trying to pretend they don’t exist, trying to sweep them under the rug.”
The U.S. secretary of state shows China that America’s greatness lies in its humility.
Eli LakeMarch 19, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just before his dustup. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac The first high-level Chinese-American summit of Joe Biden’s presidency unraveled before it began. In a moment reminiscent of the dueling bridal-shower speeches in “Bridesmaids,” the U.S. and Chinese delegations returned to the podium after initial remarks to offer sharp retorts to what had just been said.
At issue was America’s right to criticize Chinese repression. Said top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi: “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.” His message was clear: Don’t criticize us about Uyghur genocide or mass arrests in Hong Kong.
For a weak secretary of state, this would have been humiliation. An overconfident one would have pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of a senior Chinese official giving a lecture about democracy.
Antony Blinken showed he is neither. The U.S. will approach China with confidence, Blinken said, “even as we have the humility to know that we are a country eternally striving to become a more perfect union.” He added that the U.S. had a long history of confronting its demons, “not trying to ignore them, not trying to pretend they don’t exist, trying to sweep them under the rug.”
The only thing as corrupt as our political class selling their soul and dignity to China is our journalists/media who have done the same.
Also fits another good example of my theory of actually looking at these smarmy “elites” to realize who is actually giving these idiotic opinions...in this case Eli Lake:
The U.S. secretary of state shows China that America’s greatness lies in its humility.
Eli LakeMarch 19, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just before his dustup. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac The first high-level Chinese-American summit of Joe Biden’s presidency unraveled before it began. In a moment reminiscent of the dueling bridal-shower speeches in “Bridesmaids,” the U.S. and Chinese delegations returned to the podium after initial remarks to offer sharp retorts to what had just been said.
At issue was America’s right to criticize Chinese repression. Said top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi: “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.” His message was clear: Don’t criticize us about Uyghur genocide or mass arrests in Hong Kong.
For a weak secretary of state, this would have been humiliation. An overconfident one would have pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of a senior Chinese official giving a lecture about democracy.
Antony Blinken showed he is neither. The U.S. will approach China with confidence, Blinken said, “even as we have the humility to know that we are a country eternally striving to become a more perfect union.” He added that the U.S. had a long history of confronting its demons, “not trying to ignore them, not trying to pretend they don’t exist, trying to sweep them under the rug.”
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Then this lemonade stand jockey is out there on Twitter, talking about how he’s sad he visited Seoul and missed the Cherry Blossoms.
I mean what the fuck
I just fucking can’t
The U.S. secretary of state shows China that America’s greatness lies in its humility.
Eli LakeMarch 19, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just before his dustup.
Photographer: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac
The first high-level Chinese-American summit of Joe Biden’s presidency unraveled before it began. In a moment reminiscent of the dueling bridal-shower speeches in “Bridesmaids,” the U.S. and Chinese delegations returned to the podium after initial remarks to offer sharp retorts to what had just been said.
At issue was America’s right to criticize Chinese repression. Said top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi: “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.” His message was clear: Don’t criticize us about Uyghur genocide or mass arrests in Hong Kong.
For a weak secretary of state, this would have been humiliation. An overconfident one would have pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of a senior Chinese official giving a lecture about democracy.
Antony Blinken showed he is neither. The U.S. will approach China with confidence, Blinken said, “even as we have the humility to know that we are a country eternally striving to become a more perfect union.” He added that the U.S. had a long history of confronting its demons, “not trying to ignore them, not trying to pretend they don’t exist, trying to sweep them under the rug.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/u-s-china-meeting-antony-blinken-s-finest-hour
Amazing
Also fits another good example of my theory of actually looking at these smarmy “elites” to realize who is actually giving these idiotic opinions...in this case Eli Lake:
Fucking Trophies-for-All Posers, all of them.
FM, FY, FT, FE