Some Quotes :

“The alternative to a rules-based order is a world in which might makes right and winner takes all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world,” Blinken said.

The Chinese fired back. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo, offered a lengthy monologue in which he said Western nations don’t represent global public opinion and called the U.S. the “champion” of cyber-attacks.

“Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” he said, citing the killing of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Near the end of his opening remarks, he said Blinken’s comments weren’t “normal” and added that in response “mine aren’t either.”

Things only got worse from there. Cameras were ushered from the room, only to be called back in. Yang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took the opportunity to follow up with even more criticism. “Is that the way you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?” Yang asked, according to his delegation’s translator. “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.”

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Mic Drop .... :xi-clap: :xi-lib-tears:

  • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    The sheer delusion and arrogance of the US imperial agents here remind me of how the clueless Qianlong Emperor spoke to George Macartney in 1793: “Our Heavenly Dynasty abounds in goods of all kinds and lacks nothing, and we do not at all need to trade with y’all barbarians. Yet out of our sheer benevolence we allow y’all poor things to trade with us in Guangzhou. You Brits should feel lucky that we even want to talk to you.”

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the US deep state understand even less about China today (despite what they may think of themselves) than did the Qing elites about the Brits back then.

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      That was the Qing being racist assholes. They could have traded goods, but didn't want to. They considered themselves the center of the world, and all around them, in thousands of miles in every direction, were cultures that didn't measure up to their own.

      That changed bigtime when the Western powers arrived. The British tried to trade and the Qing refused: cash only. The British gave warning after warning, eyed the Qing up and down, and knew they had nothing that could stop them. So the Opium War happened. A few thousand soldiers soundly thrashed the Qing. And instead of learning from the experience, the Qing would make any deal, no matter how terrible, to keep power in their own country. Only the vast size and unconquerable nature of China "saved" them.

      All the disorder in America has been a gift from heaven to the Chinese. Anytime anyone says, "Chinese people need freedom" the CPC need only point to what happened to Americans who were given freedom and then used it to burn down their own cities. Chinese fear chaos more than anything, and will choose the CPC anytime. Heck, the CPC only lets smart people in. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.