President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese President (read: dictator) Xi Jinping this week is just another in a long string of weak displays on the world stage by our supposed commander in chief. Officially, Biden is meeting with Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco to try making friends with the genocidal dictator in order to perhaps get crumbs in return. But Biden’s decision to grovel before the Chinese Communist Party leader is just another sellout of America’s prosperity, security, and future.
Ahead of the high-stakes meeting, President Xi has no doubt seen how Biden and his administration have handled other foes of various stripes. Biden handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban. He continues to give more money to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. He failed to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which even saw Biden seek China’s help in a misguided months-wasting ploy that only resulted in Xi and Putin growing closer. When China flew a spy balloon across the United States, Biden refused to take any action until it had completed its journey off the coast of South Carolina. Nor has Biden shown strength in response to China’s harassment of Taiwan or American service members operating military aircraft in international waters. Heck, China even took back an American-born panda from D.C.’s National Zoo without a blink from Biden.
All that means Biden would have been hard-pressed to find a weaker position from which to meet with Xi, no doubt to the glee of the CCP tyrant who’s looking to take his “old friend” Joe Biden for all he’s got, yet again.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) warned this week that “China has shown it is not a trustworthy negotiator, and the Biden administration’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the CCP’s hostility and continue engaging sends another dangerous message of appeasement to our adversaries,” she emphasized. "This moment demands American strength.”
But Biden, of course, has no such strength to project, and he didn’t show any this week in San Francisco. Sure, there was the glowing readout and chummy photos from the White House praising the supposed progress Biden made in U.S.-China relations. But whatever Biden thinks he got out of the meeting won’t outweigh the negative effects of his continued appeasement of and work to earn the affection of an American foe such as China.
Did Biden get the CCP to end its genocide of Uyghurs? Did he secure assurances that the CCP would cease its corporate espionage operations and stop using Confucius Institutes to steal research from American universities? Did he ensure that the Chinese supply chain sending elements to fentanyl producers would be severed? Anything to prevent the CCP’s use of TikTok to influence Americans and gather their information? Did Biden even address the COVID-19 pandemic China unleashed on the world? How about a promise not to invade Taiwan? Anything about the CCP’s hacking of his own cabinet?
Of course not. All of that would require strength and American deterrence, neither of which Biden wields. President Xi should be called out and held to account for his regime’s malign and tyrannical actions, and being “friends” with Xi shouldn’t be Biden’s primary focus. Yet Biden continues to sell America out while China ascends in power and influence, and it’s all part of his years-long display of weakness to the CCP.
Even before their meeting, President Biden allowed the CCP-influenced World Health Organization to again receive funding from the U.S. He bought more than $1 billion worth of Chinese-made COVID tests. Biden has told donors “don’t worry about China” and has repeatedly said he does not want to “decouple from China.”
Perhaps that’s because Biden’s pre-presidential years in government saw him do most everything he could to aid the CCP’s unaccountable growth. Biden voted in favor of China gaining status as a “most favored nation” in the 1990s. He said in 2001 that “China is not our enemy.” Biden even called “a rising China” an “incredibly positive development for the United States” in 2011 when the threat posed by the CCP was glaringly apparent. That same year, he said it’s in America’s “self-interest that China should continue to prosper.” Two years later, Biden said the U.S. “should hope” for China’s “continued expansion.” In 2019, he brushed off fears that China would “eat our lunch,” reiterated that “China is not our problem,” and questioned, “what are we worried about” with China?
Certainly, Biden’s weak display and fealty to China has nothing to do with what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said was a $40,000 payment from his brother, James, in “laundered” China funds…
Again, Americans and the United States lose and Biden and his buddy Xi win, with the CCP dictator skating by on human rights atrocities, military aggression, espionage, and the like. It’s no surprise that Biden sold us out again, it’s just another nail in the Biden legacy of weakness and failure.
