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Chinese Media Spin US–China Spat in Alaska as Diplomatic Win for Beijing
Epoch Times ^ | 03/21/2021 | Eva Fu

Posted on 03/21/2021 7:20:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

China’s state-controlled media are on the offensive after top Biden administration officials and their Chinese counterparts clashed during their first in-person talks in Alaska.

The two-day meeting, covering an array of issues that have strained relations between the two countries, got off to a rocky start on March 18, with Chinese officials reacting angrily to criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) human rights abuses and economic coercion.

Lashing out over what they described as “unwarranted criticisms,” the Chinese diplomats aired bitter denunciation that veered off the usual diplomatic proceedings, extending the allotted two-minute opening remark for each speaker to a diatribe of roughly 20 minutes. With the translation, what was initially intended to be an eight-minute photo-op went on for more than an hour.

Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister and state councilor, particularly took issue with the United States’ sanctioning of 24 Chinese officials over Beijing’s clampdown on freedom in Hong Kong on the eve of the talks.

Senior Chinese foreign policy official Yang Jiechi said, “The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”

While President Joe Biden on March 19 expressed pride in his team for how they handled the matter, mainland-controlled media have uniformly cheered on their officials’ confrontational approach, while snickering at the United States.

Zhao Lijian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, insisted at a March 19 press conference that the U.S. side “failed to keep to the set time limit and provoked disagreements first,” thus bringing a strong “smell of gunpowder and drama” to the meeting—a narrative that other Chinese media soon amplified.

State-run People’s Daily promoted red posters featuring aggressive Chinese remarks from the meeting in both English and Chinese.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; china; media; propaganda

1 posted on 03/21/2021 7:20:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Chinese don’t have to spin anything. A 5 year old could win an argument with the biden administration.


2 posted on 03/21/2021 7:22:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

For once, the Red Chinese ain’t lyin’.

One can be quite confident that this fraudulent administration rolled over like an electrocuted squirrel.


3 posted on 03/21/2021 7:26:22 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw that exchange. I found Blinken’s anti-Asian rhetoric very disturbing in light of the recent attacks on Asians in America.


4 posted on 03/21/2021 7:34:03 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: SeekAndFind

China is making their demands after helping Joe win. If he pushes back, we’ll be at war with China.


5 posted on 03/21/2021 7:36:24 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: SeekAndFind

The Chinese ran circles around Blinky who is a complete disaster just like Biden.


6 posted on 03/21/2021 7:38:45 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: EvilCapitalist

—”The Chinese don’t have to spin anything. A 5 year old could win an argument with the biden administration.”

China’s Warning to Biden
A lecture in Alaska shows that adversaries sense U.S. weakness.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-warning-to-biden-11616360915

By The Editorial Board
March 21, 2021

China’s director of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi, then went on a 20-minute tear (including translation) about the superiority of “Chinese-style democracy” and America’s sins. The latter included a reference to Black Lives Matter, human-rights problems, and that the U.S. “has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony.”

... Word is leaking that the private exchanges from the Chinese side were as tough as the public remarks. The Chinese are making clear that, after the Trump years, Beijing wants a return to the policy of Obama accommodation to China’s global advances.

This means feeble objections to China’s cyber and intellectual property theft. ...

This is a dangerous moment as the world’s rogue powers look to test the Biden Administration’s resolve. The Anchorage lecture is a warning to take seriously.


7 posted on 03/21/2021 8:01:20 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: SeekAndFind

President Rutabaga loses at tic-tac-toe.


8 posted on 03/21/2021 8:18:41 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden and his senilitic-infantile schizo admin of dinosaurs only hope to get a good nursing-insanity home spot in China when all is said and done.


9 posted on 03/21/2021 8:56:15 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: SeekAndFind

It looked like a Chinese win to me... or maybe just a winken blinken and nod loss...


10 posted on 03/21/2021 9:20:16 PM PDT by GOPJ (And at first Jews thought Hitler was only talking about the “bad Jews” and not them- dfwgator.)
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To: SeekAndFind

China beat Biden’s officials like a 250 lb. tranny taking on a high school girl’s wrestling team.


11 posted on 03/21/2021 9:27:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: SeekAndFind

Still not clear that Biden is a Globalist hack and a tool of China?
Some dare call this TREASON!!
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12 posted on 03/21/2021 9:32:23 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Epoch Times was great during the stolen election, but on this issue they will get little support. Patriots support America First - not its corrupt and fraudulent government and ruling junta. Nobody from the US side spoke for me in the Alaska meetings.


13 posted on 03/21/2021 9:39:07 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: SeekAndFind

Who had Blinken’s job under the Trump Admin.?
I tend to doubt the Chinese would have been so bold then.


14 posted on 03/21/2021 10:05:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

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15 posted on 03/22/2021 1:59:55 AM PDT by upchuck (Republicans better realize the 74 million Trump supporters are not 74 million GOP supporters.)
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To: BrexitBen

They know Biden is a weakling. They’re quite emboldened.


16 posted on 03/22/2021 4:28:01 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: realcleanguy
Right.

China is probing the Biden administration to see if any anti-commie hardliners snuck into positions of power.

So far, it's like probing a marshmallow.

Given China's goals, their operatives in the U.S. are working overtime right now trying to get the lay of the land.

17 posted on 03/22/2021 4:52:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Seems to be the case


18 posted on 03/22/2021 6:38:22 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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