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| China Rebukes Biden's Foreign Policy Team; Cites ‘Black Lives Matter' on U.S. Human Rights Abuses |
| 2021-03-19 |
| [Breitbart] Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi rebuked U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, citing the Black Lives Matter movement on U.S. human rights abuses. The summit was the first bilateral meeting between the two countries under President Joe Biden, who has traditionally been soft on Beijing, and has struggled to balance a desire to break with Trump’s tough policies with the need for a strong stance. Ahead of the meeting, the White House boasted that it had successfully insisted that the summit happen on home soil. Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki also promised earlier Thursday that the U.S. would bring up concerns about human rights in China. But when Blinken spoke of the "rules-based international order," and expressed "deep concerns" with China’s behavior in "Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyberattacks on the United States, economic coercion toward our allies," Jiechi struck back. He objected to what he called a violation of diplomatic protocol, and said the U.S. could not lecture China from a position of strength. |
| Posted by:JohnQC |
| #22 laughingstock of the world |
| Posted by: Ebbomoth Snore4984 2021-03-19 21:30 |
| #21 To be fair, there are a lot of people just now finding things out. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-03-19 15:52 |
| #20 Thank you, faithful minions, for covering my back. 8) |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-03-19 15:23 |
| #19 K-Pop Diplomacy. Bold move. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-03-19 15:01 |
| #18 Xi must be displeased with his puppet's performance. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-03-19 14:53 |
| #17 TheDaily Signal lays it out in more detail. here. A Free Republic post back in August overtly connected the Houston consulate with BLM based on a piece by Radio Free Asia . |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-19 13:44 |
| #16 Gordon Chang: China Engaged in 'an Act of War' by Enflaming Antifa Riots in the U.S. Yet he also mentioned something far more sinister, something he described as “an act of war.” According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), based an intelligence unit in the then-open Houston consulate, helping Chinese soldiers to infiltrate American society. According to a ChinaScope report from August, that PLA unit “sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.” As PJ Media’s Bryan Preston put it at the time, “It sounds an awful lot like the Chinese Communist Party used PLA officers armed with fake Huawei IDs to access TikTok data to target likely protesters in cities around the United States.” ChinaScope also claimed the PLA officers sent the videos directly to likely protesters and rioters, ostensibly to keep them private from the media or the public at large. |
| Posted by: Ebbavique Sneregum1636 2021-03-19 13:23 |
| #15 The Houston consulate was ostensibly closed because the were coordinating PLA agents in academic research. It would be silly to think they only had one arrow in their quiver, though. A quick search of the Rantburg archives gives this and this. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-19 13:19 |
| #14 Sheger, the easiest way for the Chinese - or you or me or anyone - to funnel money to a pet cause without it being traced back to the donor is via dark money donations. Literally billions of dollars are now flowing into the US political system in this manner -- the vast majority of it to Democrat and left-wing groups and causes. From OpenSecrets.org: [PACs and other] groups are required to reveal their backers, but they can hide the true source of funding by reporting a non-disclosing nonprofit or shell company as the donor. By using this tactic, dark money groups can get around a 2020 court ruling that attempts to require nonprofits running political ads to reveal their donors. |
| Posted by: Jish B. Hayes3471 2021-03-19 13:15 |
| #13 Could always check on the LeBron James, NBA, Disney, and Nike feeds. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-03-19 12:56 |
| #12 I seem to remember shredder trucks running at Houston and San Francisco that summer |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-03-19 12:55 |
| #11 All I asked was for a citation, and all I got was something about spying in universities. If you do have a citation for the claim, I'd gladly spread it all over my social media sites. |
| Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-03-19 12:48 |
| #10 Sure, Sheger, sure. There's no Chinese money or training behind BLM or Antifa. Sure. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-03-19 12:28 |
| #9 Nowhere in that citation does it say BLM. Oh no, they're running spy operations out of their consulate. Really? Wow, it's like every single country does that. |
| Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-03-19 12:23 |
| #8 All the Chinese have to do is repeat the same half truths they and the Dems were saying about Trump, but this time about Biden. The Democrats don't have a response because they still don't know they're the &*(& patsies. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-03-19 12:16 |
| #7 Right now we're spending more energy trying to convict Derek Chauvin than we are trying to contain the CCP. |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-03-19 12:01 |
| #6 7/25/2020: The Chinese Consulate General in Houston has closed following Tuesday's order to do so after US officials alleged it was part of a larger Chinese espionage effort using diplomatic facilities around the US, a State Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN late Friday. US federal agents and local law enforcement entered the Chinese consulate compound in Houston earlier Friday in a series of black SUVs, trucks, two white vans and a locksmith's van as a crowd of observers and news cameras observed from the edge of the diplomatic compound. US officials speaking to reporters Friday said the consulate had been implicated in a fraud investigation at a Texas research institution and that Chinese consulate officials "were directly involved in communications with researchers and guided them on what information to collect." The activities of consulate officials in Houston "are a microcosm, we believe, of a broader network of individuals in more than 25 cities that network is supported through the consulates here," a US Justice Department official said Friday. "Consulates have been giving individuals in that network guidance on how to evade [and] obstruct our investigation. And you can infer from that the ability to task that [a] network of associates nationwide." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-03-19 10:41 |
| #5 Bullshit, Mercutio, cite sources. |
| Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-03-19 10:36 |
| #4 IIRC, a CCP consulate in Tx got closed because they were training BLM in insurrection techniques. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-03-19 08:48 |
| #3 What would the Uyghurs have to say? China cites BLM as U.S. human rights abuse. China got this wrong. Yup, BLM has been abusing U.S. citizens for the past year or so with their burning, looting and even murder. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-03-19 08:45 |
| #2 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec · 10h Opening remarks in Anchorage were agreed to be 2 minutes each The CCP delegation opened with 20 minutes of blasting Biden's policies, BLM, division under Biden, and said the US is no longer a world leader And Blinken and Sullivan had little to no response Disaster |
| Posted by: Spuns Tholurt9420 2021-03-19 08:40 |
| #1 True, we haven't done enough to stop the abuses by the BLM/Antifa movements. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-03-19 08:28 |