Joe Biden has been undoing all the foreign and domestic policies of his predecessor Donald Trump for a while. The result has been disastrous for the American people who are suffering from these actions. Now in line with his egotistical policy, Joe Biden is willing to reopen the same Chinese consulates which were shut down under the leadership of Donald Trump. According to Politico, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to announce the reopening of consulates that were closed last year, after the then Trump administration realised that they were used for spying activities.
The two presidents, who are arranging a virtual summit in the near future, are also expected to announce an easing of visa restrictions, according to the report. The US also wants to make progress on trade and climate change, as well as begin a bilateral nuclear weapons conversation, which Beijing has refused to do. In response to inquiries about the Politico article, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that “several incidents unilaterally caused by the previous US administration badly harmed China-US relations.”
China sets the terms and Biden complies
“We hope the United States will correct its mistakes and work together with China to put bilateral ties back on track,” Wang said at a routine press briefing in Beijing on Friday. Wang said he didn’t have any new information on Xi and Biden’s meeting arrangements. Joe Biden and the democrats are willing to bend to the demands of an overt adversary and let them set up intelligence operation units in the name of consulates, just to feed their ego and teach Republicans a lesson. Something one would not think important enough to compromise the sovereignty and security of the nation.
Why did Trump close Chinese consulates?
Last year, the then US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, “We have directed the closure of PRC Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information.” This came at the heels of reports of China stealing American intellectual property and enriching itself at the cost of compromising Washington’s interests.
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Ortagus came down heavily on China and added, “The United States will not tolerate the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated the PRC’s unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs, and other egregious behaviour.” Even the FBI Director of the time, Christopher Wray had himself revealed that the domestic intelligence body of the United States is opening a China-related counterintelligence case every ten hours. It was expected that this would lead to a major pushback against the Chinese campaign to steal American Intellectual Property (IP).
Joe Biden is at the rescue of the Chinese economy
Biden administration has stooped low enough to help its adversary China out of the current socio-economic crisis, which was the making of Chinese leader Xi Jinping himself. Be it the release of the Huawei CFO, betraying allies like Taiwan and toeing One China policy to placate Beijing, or restarting trade talks with the regime which is currently undertaking industrial-scale genocide in Xinjiang. The Biden administration even has come to the rescue of a rapidly deflating Chinese economy.
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As reported by Bloomberg, Foreign currency bank deposits are just shy of a record $1 trillion, while the trade surplus in the first nine months of this year hit about $440 billion compared with the 2015-2019 average of $336 billion and 2020s $325 billion, according to Morgan Stanley estimates. Now with the dollars flowing in, analysts are not able to make sense of how Beijing is able to attract such inflow of forex when it is going through such an economic crisis. With the above background, we can be sure that the Biden administration has eased the channels of transfer of money.
Recently, in a letter to Biden, a group of four Democratic legislators urged him to make nuclear risk reduction measures with China a primary focus in his next meeting with Xi. According to the Communist Party-backed Global Times, China sees such measures as “dragging” China into “unfair arms talks” to constrain China and legitimise American moves to increase its nuclear capacity, as it did last year when it refused to join US-Russia arms control talks. And with the way in which Joe Biden is moving, it looks like, instead of taking his fellow democrat’s suggestion he seems to be working to make Xi Jinping happy.
