Seems weird for a defense of the Lying OUTLAW SLAVERS of Beijing to ask for "simple integrity".This extremely slanted article appearing in Bloomberg Opinion shows that even the generally pro-Democratic Party “liberal” Bloomberg faction in Wall Street is now supportive of taking a hard line with China. This general anti-Chinese propaganda gives the lie to Trump’s attempts to portray DNC politicians like Biden and Bloomberg as being in XiJinping’s pocket. The Washington consensus is now more or less pushing for a full Cold War.WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT CHINESE PATIENCE, BUT LATELY WE’RE SEEING THE IMPATIENCE OF AN ELDERLY DICTATOR WHO KNOWS HE DOESN’T HAVE A LOT OF TIME: Europe Just Declared Independence From China: As the EU navigates an increasingly Sino-American world, it finally sees the need to stand together, even against Beijing.
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China’s "diplomats" were already having a terrible year in Europe, but this week they managed to make it even worse.
China doesn't have "diplomacy", they lie, issue ultimatums and expect Lebron-like kneeling in response.
Xi this past week dispatched his foreign minister, Wang Yi, to five European countries for some preparatory sweet talk. Talk there was; it just wasn’t sweet.
Wang showed up hoping to hear the softer tones to which he’s accustomed from Europeans, who remain more eager than the Americans to keep trading and doing business with China. Instead, he was surprised at the amount of resistance he was picking up underneath the formal niceties.
But those dissonances were as nothing compared with his stopover in Berlin. Speaking to German reporters, Wang lashed out at the president of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, who had taken a delegation to visit Taiwan. Vystrcil would “pay a heavy price,” threatened Wang, fuming that the Czech’s “betrayal” made him “an enemy of 1.4 billion Chinese people.”
This elicited a prompt response from Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister. Standing next to Wang at their joint press conference, Maas reminded his visitor that “we as Europeans act in close cooperation” and demand respect, and that “threats don’t fit in here.” Colleagues from France, Slovakia and other European countries quickly backed him up.
The list of grievances against Lying Outlaw Slaver China has simply become too long. It starts with the crackdown on Hong Kong and the suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang — China insists that both topics, like the Taiwanese question, are internal matters and none of the world’s business. Then there’s China’s saber-rattling in the South China Sea, and of course its rapacious approach to business.
China’s diplomats are well advised to change their bearing in future visits.
Even admitting the ham-handedness and difficulties of Chinese propaganda and diplomacy and the real excesses of Chinese domestic security / anti-democracy authoritarianism under XiJinping, most of the real motivations for Washington ramping up pressures on China (and D.C.’s NATO allies) is here completely ignored. This superficial article also characterizes China’s motivations in the South China Sea quite mistakenly in my view.
But perhaps the “Lying Outlaw” character of today’s “Trumpian” anti-China perspective can best be found comparing the already terrible Bloomberg article with the OUTRAGEOUS MISQUOTING of the same article shown here (from Zorro! ’s comment above):
The list of grievances against Lying Outlaw Slaver China has simply become too long. It starts with the crackdown on Hong Kong and the suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang — China insists that both topics, like the Taiwanese question, are internal matters and none of the world’s business.
The list of grievances against China has simply become too long. It starts with the crackdown on Hong Kong and the suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang — China insists that both topics, like the Taiwanese question, are internal matters and none of the world’s business.
China’s diplomats do indeed have a problem ... dealing with an army of anti-China liberal Wall Street journalists, unprincipled politicians like Trump, and assorted Westerners who show neither understanding nor even simple integrity.
Simple Integrity would be:
- Not lying about person to person transfer of COVID, in violation of their international commitments while five million visitors left Wuhan and seeded the pandemic throughout the world.
- Would be not stealing our technology and robbing us blind as they take advantage of our much more open markets.
- Would be not treating the world's environment like their own personal trashcan.
- Would be not committing genocide against their Muslim minorities.
- Would be not stealing from and bullying their neighbors and refusing to honor the maritime boundaries of others.
One wonders why: