Nevertheless, Xi persisted

The Spectator ^ | 11 Feb 2021 | Dominioc Green

[Rummyfan]

China already ate America’s lunch — and Biden served it up

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, what does it mean when a phone doesn’t ring? This philosophical chestnut recurs whenever a new American president phones his allies and clients or, if you’re Joe Biden when the calls are to your deepest frenemy Benjamin Netanyahu or your ex-friend and now quasi-enemy Xi Jinping.

Now and then, you are reminded that the Khomeinis and Khameneis, and the Osama bin Ladens too, have a point. America’s politicians are decadent and feckless. They substitute image for reality, and when it goes wrong, they pretend it never happened. Everything about Joe Biden is false, from his teeth to the random musings that float past them. The whole world sees this, but we are enjoined not to by an administration that drifted into office on a cloud of fantasy, puffed up by a largely complicit media.

‘Biden confronts China’s Xi in first call,’ reports Politico. Biden couldn’t ‘confront’ a cheese sandwich without a side order of denture paste.

‘In first call with Xi since election, Biden warns him on human rights,’ reports the New York Times. That’s a ‘warning’ on ‘human rights’ abuses than Xi says aren’t happening.

[Rummyfan]

President Sum Dum Fuk....

[Rummyfan]

...ike most of what the media tells us about the Biden administration, is nonsense. Serious diplomacy is done with people who don’t like you. People like Benjamin Netanyahu, who accurately sees Joe Biden as a blowhard and a fool. People like Ali Khamenei of Iran, who doesn’t care when the call comes, because he already knows that, one way or another, Biden will give him everything he wants, whether he wants to or not. People like Xi Jinping, who surely cannot believe his luck that Donald Trump, the first president since the Korean War to give China a hard time, has been replaced by Hunter Biden’s semi-senile father.

The world is saying goodbye to America. Americans should understand that this means that they too will be saying goodbye to America. Dream on.

We are in for difficult times.

[PIF]

He was obligated to call the man who paid for his selection and is his boss.

[setter]

I was warning about Chyna 15 years ago and was called an anti free trader union thug by conservatives even though I never belonged to a union and with my wife we own 3 companies.

[PGR88]

The deep-state had made US policy ass-backwards - and probably for highly corrupt reasons.

We treat Russia as a mortal threat, have NATO on their borders, engage in regime change against them and the former Soviet States despite their small economic power (or perhaps because of it?), lack of Russian overseas adventurism and fact they have given up communism.

China is the exact opposite - large and growing economy, upon which we are increasingly dependent, active around the world in competition with us, and a full-on communist country. We treat them merely as “rivals.”

[COBOL2Java]

President Sum Dum Fuk....

"How'd you know our nickname for your president?"