Now that we know the
Biden administration
planned on allowing Secretary of State
Antony Blinken
to head to Beijing despite a Chinese surveillance balloon invading U.S. airspace, it comes as little surprise that the president essentially bowed to
Beijing
during his second
State of the Union
address.
Rather than blast the Chinese Communist Party for its attempts to surveil U.S. citizens, its responsibility for unleashing the coronavirus pandemic on the rest of the world, or even its human rights abuses and genocide, Biden spoke like it was still 1994.
“I’ve made clear with President Xi that we seek competition, not conflict,” Biden said. “I will make no apologies that we are investing to make America strong, investing in American innovation, in industries that will define the future, and that China’s government is intent on dominating.”
Biden’s only mention of
the balloon
came when he said, “If China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.”
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But did he? Biden reportedly first responded to finding out about the balloon by calling for its immediate destruction, but the
Pentagon
talked him out of this until it had traversed half of the continental U.S. Furthermore, Blinken postponed his visit to Beijing — not after the administration discovered the balloon, but rather after the public did. The belated reaction would imply that Biden is concerned about relations with the Chinese because of public opinion stateside, not the danger of the Chinese dictator and the Chinese Communist Party.
That Biden thinks our relationship is a competition, a quest for market dominance between two equal partners with at least some common values, explains the problem. The People’s Republic of China is not a competitor. It is a terror, a genocidal dictatorship that seeks not to best the U.S. but to unseat our dominance and undo the entire democratic world order.
