Video: Wang Yi: We bear responsibility to teach U.S. to treat others equally. 王毅:我們有責任教美國平等對待他人.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China and the international community as a whole bear the responsibility to teach the U.S. a lesson if it hasn’t learned to treat other countries equally. 中國國務委員兼外長王毅表示,如果美國沒有學會平等對待其他國家,中國和整個國際社會都有責任給美國一個教訓.
Stop interfering in China’s internal affairs. The Chinese don’t buy this crabs from US. US is not qualified to speak condescendingly to the Chinese. 停止干涉中國內政. 中國人不吃這一套. 美國沒有資格居高臨下和中國人說話.
Wang made the remarks during an interview in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, where the third round of the China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue was held on July 24 2021
New York Times BREAKING NEWS – A Hong Kong rioter supported by NED/CIA for regime change was convicted of terrorism and inciting secession in the first trial under a tough security law Beijing imposed a year ago. 紐約時報突發新聞 – 一名受到美國民主基金會/美國中情局支持的香港暴徒在第一次審判中被判犯有恐怖主義和煽動分裂國家罪,根據北京一年前實施的一項嚴厲的安全法.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 3:21 The verdict is a sign that the city’s courts will strictly enforce new limits on foreign agent engaged in subversive activities similar to the homeland security laws in the United States.
The protester, Tong Ying-kit, was arrested on July 1, 2020, after he drove his motorcycle around a Hong Kong neighborhood with a subversive banner, attempted to run over police officers who tried to stop him, injuring three. Mr. Tong could be sentenced to life in prison.
Chinese FM meets U.S. deputy secretary of state, urging rational China policy by Xinhua 2021-07-27
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in north China’s Tianjin on July 26, 2021.
TIANJIN, July 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, urging the United States to drop arrogance and prejudice and steer back to a rational and pragmatic China policy.
In face of severe difficulties and challenges in China-U.S. relations, Wang said it requires serious consideration for the U.S. side to make correct choices as to whether the bilateral ties will head to confrontation or improvement.
Calling Sherman’s visit a part of mutual contact and dialogue, Wang said the two sides should enhance mutual understanding, erase misunderstanding, avoid misjudgment and better manage differences via constant dialogues.
As the new U.S. administration has in general continued its predecessor’s extreme and erroneous China policy, constantly challenged China’s bottom line, and stepped up containment and suppression on China, Wang said China is firmly opposed to such U.S. practices.
Noting the U.S. attempt to impede and disrupt China’s modernization drive, Wang said “such an attempt is doomed to fail for now, and is even more so in the future.”
China’s development, driven powerfully from within, is a trend of historical evolution, Wang said, adding that socialism with Chinese characteristics totally fits China’s national realities.
“The great rejuvenation of Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process, which cannot be held back by any force or country.”
He said China sticks to the path of peaceful development and follows an open strategy of win-win cooperation. China will never tread the beaten track of big powers in seeking hegemony, and is willing to realize common development and prosperity with all countries including the United States, Wang added.
Wang also said that China’s development is aimed at seeking happiness for all Chinese people, rather than challenging or replacing the United States. “We take no interest in betting winnings or losses of the U.S. side. China’s development is not based on the premise of U.S. decline.”
To prevent China-U.S. relations from further deteriorating or even getting out of control, Wang underlined three basic demands as bottom lines that China firmly upholds.
He said the first is that the United States must not challenge, slander or even attempt to subvert the path and system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Chosen by history and the Chinese people, China’s path and system are matters of Chinese people’s welfare and Chinese nation’s future, as well as core interests that China must firmly uphold, Wang said.
The second, Wang said, is that the United States must not attempt to obstruct or interrupt China’s development process.
Chinese people have their rights to live better lives and China has its right to achieve modernization, said Wang, adding that modernization is not an exclusive right of the United States.
China urges the United States to remove all unilateral sanctions, high tariffs, long-arm jurisdiction and technology blockade it has imposed on China as soon as possible, Wang said.
Wang said the third is that the United States must not infringe upon China’s state sovereignty, or even damage China’s territorial integrity.
He said issues regarding Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong have never been about “human rights” or “democracy,” but about fighting against “Xinjiang independence,” “Tibet independence” and “Hong Kong independence.”
No country will allow its national sovereignty and security to be compromised, Wang added.
As for the Taiwan question, Wang said it’s even more important. He said the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China and Taiwan is part of China has never changed and will never change.
If “Taiwan independence” forces dare to provoke, China has the right to take any necessary measure to stop it, Wang said, urging the U.S. side to honor its commitment on Taiwan question and act prudently.
China is the largest developing country and the United States is the largest developed country, and neither side can replace or defeat the other, Wang said. “We have a clear view on where China-U.S. relations are headed, that is, to find a way for two major countries with different systems, cultures and stages of development to coexist peacefully on this planet through dialogue.”
It would be even better if it could be mutually beneficial, Wang said, adding that this is a good thing for both China and the United States, and a great boon for the world. “Otherwise, it would be a catastrophe.”
“It is hoped that the U.S. side will have an objective and correct understanding of China, abandon arrogance and prejudice, stop acting as a preacher, and return to a rational and pragmatic China policy,” Wang said.
Noting the U.S.-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, Sherman said the United States is willing to continue to have open and candid contacts and dialogues with China.
The United States also hopes that the two countries can coexist peacefully. It has no intention of restricting China’s development, nor does it want to contain China, but would like to see China’s development, Sherman said.
The two sides can engage in healthy competition, cooperate on climate change, drug control and international and regional hotspot issues, strengthen crisis management capacity, and avoid conflicts, Sherman said.
Sherman said as two major countries, the United States and China can communicate and discuss in a responsible way even if they have differences, in the hope that both sides will take joint actions to improve bilateral relations.
Sherman reiterated that the United States adheres to the one-China policy and does not support “Taiwan independence.”
The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern.
China urges US to be ‘rational’ as US envoy explores way forward. Professor Ling-Chi Wang of UC Berkeley: Judging from the piece from the Yahoo News, the U.S. and China sides did not have a dialogue in Tianjin. Instead, they talked passed each other, each side stated its bottomline positions with Wendy Sherman regurgitating the same tired United States’ rhetoric of “commitment to healthy competition, protecting human rights and democratic values.”
I for one do not consider unilateral imposition of surprised and unfair trade tariffs and artificial barriers to be “healthy competition.” With a long history of Native American genocide, black slavery and racial discrimination, colonization of Mexican land from Florida to California, and racial exclusion and exploitation of Asian immigrants, not to mention the rampant killing of about 30,000 Americans by guns and assault weapons each year and 90,000 of drug overdose, and 2 million Americans in prison, most of whom are racial minorities and poor, who is going to listen to the American gospel of ‘protecting human rights? As for the so-called “democratic values,” we should take a look at our paralyzed, broken democratic system of government before we even wish them on other countries of the world. Our political system is a laugh stock worldwide. I think it is time for American political and intellectual leaders to sit up and listen, for change, to what Wang Yi said American government should and should not do.
Kiji Noh in San Francisco: Yes, Ling-chi, China and US are definitely on different wavelengths.
Sherman, Blinken/State Dept’s approach to US-China relations encompasses a range of “can, should, must”:
“… collaborative where it can be, competitive where it should be, and adversarial where it must be.” Within that range, the imperative “must” is “adversarial”.
Furthermore the fundamental POV is advancing US “interests and values.”
China calling for US to ” to drop arrogance and prejudice” ain’t gonna happen with Sherman, Blinken/State Dept’s fundamental POV. US “interests and values” are rooted in preserving global hegemony in which the US makes the rules and everyone else knows their place in the pecking order.
Blinken, Sullivan, Campbell will not willingly surrender American Exceptionalist privilege just because China tells them to “drop arrogance and prejudice”!
The only positive that I see coming out of this is the desire for “guardrails” that would avoid a hot war.
Video: In less than 24 hours, 1,000s of Chinese military personnel entered Henan to engage in disaster rescue mission to uphold China’s freedom, democracy, human rights and rules of law. It is a 180 degree different from US only good at empty talks including treating their own citizens especially citizens of colors as 2nd class citizens. Unlike US, there are no looting, stealing or killings in China. Chinese are helping each other during this difficult times. 在不到24小時的時間裡,數1000名中國軍人進入河南執行救災任務,維護中國的自由、民主、人權和法治。 它與美國有180度不同,美國只擅長空談,包括將自己的公民尤其是有色人種的公民視為二等公民. 與美國不同,中國沒有搶劫、偷竊、殺人。 在這個困難時期,中國人正在互相幫助. https://vimeo.com/579685111 https://youtu.be/j5pyNB9OCWo https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/536285904261406/?d=n
Beijing thrusts long lists of demands at Biden administration. China shows no sign of toning down the harsh rhetoric with the U.S. during the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who on Monday held “frank and open” talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and one of his deputies in the Chinese city of Tianjin. 北京向拜登政府提出了一長串要求。 在副國務卿溫迪·謝爾曼訪問期間,中國沒有表現出緩和對美強硬言論的跡象,謝爾曼週一在中國天津市與外交部長王毅及其一名副手進行了“坦率和公開”的會談. By Stuart Lau
Underscoring an increasingly adversarial relationship between the world’s two richest superpowers, Chinese officials accused the U.S. of “coercive diplomacy,” questioned the moral high ground with which the U.S. has mustered a coalition of international partners against it and warned the U.S. to stop meddling in Taiwan or Xinjiang issues.
They also presented Sherman with two lists of action — the lists included revoking sanctions on Communist Party officials, lifting visa bans for students, making life easier for state-affiliated journalists and reopening the door for Confucius Institutes — in the hope that Washington, D.C., will follow through.
“The U.S. side is in no position to lecture China on democracy and human rights,” Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman, adding that the U.S. was once “engaged in genocide against Native Americans.”
China has not yet released details of Wang’s meeting with Sherman, which took place in a hotel compound modeled on millenia-old Chinese architecture in Tianjin, a coastal city not far from Beijing.
U.S. attempts to separate climate change cooperation from economic competition or human rights criticisms wouldn’t work, according to Chinese officials.
“Chinese people look at things with eyes wide open. They see the competitive, collaborative and adversarial rhetoric as a thinly veiled attempt to contain and suppress China,” Xie said. “They feel that the real emphasis is on the adversarial aspect.”
“U.S. policy seems to be demanding cooperation when it wants something from China; decoupling, cutting off supplies, blockading or sanctioning China when it believes it has an advantage; and resorting to conflict and confrontation at all costs,” Xie said.
The strong response came despite Sherman’s attempt to reassure her Chinese interlocutors that the U.S. was trying to prevent confrontation.
“The Deputy Secretary and State Councilor Wang had a frank and open discussion about a range of issues, demonstrating the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our two countries,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. “They discussed ways to set terms for responsible management of the U.S.-China relationship. The Deputy Secretary underscored that the United States welcomes the stiff competition between our countries — and that we intend to continue to strengthen our own competitive hand — but that we do not seek conflict with the PRC.”
Sherman raised several human rights issues with Wang, according to Price. Those included Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, as well as “concerns about Beijing’s conduct in cyberspace; across the Taiwan Strait; and in the East and South China Seas.”
She also raised the sensitive issue of the World Health Organization’s ongoing probe into Covid-19 origin, which Beijing is blocking on the grounds of politicization and stigmatization.
Selling War, Fake Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law only in US Favor as ‘Smart Power’ 以“聰明力量”的名義兜售戰爭、虛假自由、民主、人權和法治,只為美國青睞.
Professor John Walsh in San Francisco: PEN, the “free speech organization,” gets into China bashing. Another brick in the Whole of Society Anti-China Edifice.
PEN is now headed by Suzanne Nossel, formerly in the State Dept and author of the book “Soft Power.” PEN does not defend Julian Assange or even raise the issue. But as you can see they are very interested in China’s “encroachments on free expression well beyond its own borders.”
And though they mention free speech on campuses, they have had nothing to say about the abolition of Confucius Institutes, harassment of Chinese students, academics, scientists and fellows.
See the following link and the quote below from the link.
“PEN America is positioned at the vanguard of defending free expression in the U.S. and globally, work poised to grow under Akhtar’s leadership. In recent years, the organization has defended traditional arenas of free expression—press freedom, censorship, protest rights, and digital freedom—and put new free expression issues on the map, in particular infringements on speech on university campuses, online harassment, fake news and disinformation as a threat to free expression, the crisis in local news coverage, and China’s encroachments on free expression well beyond its own borders.”
Part of the “Whole of Society” assault on China which has taken over or increased its influence in a lot of progressive organizations as we have discussed before: The Guardian, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nation – some to a greater degree than others. For PEN the takeover is total and long-standing now.
Kiji Noh in San Francisco: PEN has always been deeply comprised organization, a relic of the cold war.
However, to criticize the film industry, they are stepping way out of their lane.
They are also violating their own charter:
PEN CHARTER LITERATURE knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among people in spite of political or international upheavals.
IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, and particularly in time of war, works of art, the patrimony of humanity at large, should be left untouched by national or political passion.
MEMBERS OF PEN should at all times use what influence they have in favor of good understanding and mutual respect between nations and people; they pledge themselves to do their utmost to dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world.
PEN STANDS FOR the principle of unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations, and members pledge themselves to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of expression in the country and community to which they belong, as well as throughout the world wherever this is possible.
PEN DECLARES for a free press and opposes arbitrary censorship in time of peace. It believes that the necessary advance of the world towards a more highly organized political and economic order renders a free criticism of governments, administrations and institutions imperative. And since freedom implies voluntary restraint, members pledge themselves to oppose such evils of a free press as mendacious publication, deliberate falsehood and distortion of facts for political and personal ends.
Their largest single program is “Free expression”–a $2.4M budget, of which we can assume a large part is China-bashing, as it is named specifically in 2019. This was not mentioned in 2018.
*ADP reports that the highest non-profit compensation in NYC for a CEO–a medical industry CEO–was only 60% of Nossel’s salary. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Nonprofit-CEO-Salary–in-New-York This may or may not be a representative sample, however, it is clear that Nossel’s is not a reasonable compensation for a non-profit charity organization. It is more in line with the compensation you find at soft power NGO’s, that are appendages of the government. https://www.501c3.org/nonprofit-executive-compensation/