Qin Gang’s request for U.S. officials to shut up was remarkable for its extraordinarily undiplomatic tone, hinting at the hard line he will take in this post.
Then, the following month during a U.S.–China summit in Anchorage, Alaska, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan opened the meeting with remarks critical of China’s human-rights abuses and other misconduct. Yang accused them of hypocrisy and offered a cutting rebuttal: “I think we thought too well of the United States. The United States isn’t qualified to speak to China from a position of strength.” The State Department omitted that portion of Yang’s remarks on an official transcript of the interaction.
Pure cope.
In Communist China the state censors even cursory criticism