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China Hopes for a New Era of Appeasement
American Thinker.com ^ | November 20, 2020 | William R. Hawkins

Posted on 11/20/2020 6:09:54 AM PST by Kaslin

On Friday the 13th, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) congratulated Joe Biden on his win in the 2020 presidential election even as the results were still being contested in the U.S. The statement issued by Beijing’s Foreign Ministry was short and formal, but the Chinese state-run media was quick to express what the Communist leadership hopes a Biden administration will mean for the advancement of China’s interests.

Global Times, the official outlet of the ruling Communist Party (CPC), ran “Experts look forward to Biden administration addressing issues that separate China, US” the following Monday. One of the three experts was Zhang Baijia, former deputy director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee. He noted “the goals of China and the US are different. The US wants to maintain its global leadership, while China hopes to safeguard its right to development.” He concluded that “It's expected that the Biden administration will act differently from the Trump administration. It will abandon Trump's ‘America First’ unilateralism and make changes in many aspects. But though there may be some adjustments, the basic policy that takes China as a strategic competitor will not change. For China, the policy change of the US will be both a challenge and an opportunity."

As is common in Chinese propaganda, foreign experts are featured when they advocate policies benefitting Beijing. The other two experts cited were both Americans who favor improved relations. The views of Craig B. Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, were to be expected. Strategic issues are beyond him. He and those rope-selling capitalists Lenin praised fit the warning from the renowned economic thinker Joseph Schumpeter. He noted their commercial leadership “does not readily expand... into the leadership of nations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: china; joebiden

1 posted on 11/20/2020 6:09:54 AM PST by Kaslin
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China Hopes for a New Era of Appeasement

I keep praying that we don't find out what $1.5 BILLION paid to Hunter buys.

2 posted on 11/20/2020 6:21:54 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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Be ready to salute the ChiCom flag! Any Biden win should be viewed as a ChiCom victory rewarded through using bio warfare


3 posted on 11/20/2020 7:10:43 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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4 posted on 11/20/2020 7:41:12 AM PST by clearcarbon
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