NBC News called it a “public spat” while France 24 said “tensions flared” as Chinese officials rebuked Biden administration officials on camera in a high-level …
NBC News called it a “public spat” while France 24 said “tensions flared” as Chinese officials rebuked Biden administration officials on camera in a high-level meeting between the two world powers Thursday on U.S. soil. Chinese’s most senior diplomat, Yang Jiechi, lectured Secretary of State Tony Blinken and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on human rights at the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. “The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength,” Yang said. On Friday, President Biden was asked to assess the performance of his top foreign policy officials. “I’m very proud of the secretary of state,” he said, the New York Post reported. The Chinese officials rebuffed U.S. criticism, the Post said, over the communist regime’s crackdown on Hong Kong activists and its persecution of the Uyghur minority. The Trump administration officially determined Beijing is carrying out genocide against the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim people group. Yang insisted “China has Chinese-style democracy.” “It is not just up to the U.S., but also the world to evaluate how the U.S. has done in advancing its own democracy,” he said.
