{"id":50873,"date":"2023-06-21T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50873"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:08:38","slug":"making-friends-with-our-enemies-and-betraying-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50873","title":{"rendered":"Making Friends With Our Enemies And Betraying Our Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 19, msn.com<\/a> posted the following:<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Antony Blinken<\/strong><\/a> raised eyebrows Monday, telling reporters the US \u201cdoes not support Taiwan independence\u201d after meeting in Beijing with officials including Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blinken\u2019s statement ruffled the feathers of many Republicans in Congress, who viewed the statement \u2013 and the secretary\u2019s inability to re-establish military-to-military <\/a>communications \u2013 as an inappropriate kowtow to America\u2019s greatest adversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBlinken flew to Communist China to appease Xi Jinping and state the Biden administration does not support Taiwan\u2019s independence,\u201d Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cWhy won\u2019t this administration stand up to bullies and stand for freedom?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taiwan issue is among the most contentious in the US-China relationship, with Xi making it his No. 1 priority to \u201creunite\u201d Taiwan with China<\/a> \u2014 though the island about 100 miles off the country\u2019s southeastern coast has never actually been part of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) tweeted that Blinken\u2019s statement was a \u201cdangerous display of weakness towards our adversaries on the world stage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Follow the money. I realize that a lot of the allegations against the Biden family have not yet been proven, but there are very few countries in the world that could support the lifestyle that the Bidens enjoy.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s \u201cOne China policy,\u201d which has been critical for maintaining peace in East Asia since it took effect in the late 1970s, holds that the US acknowledges \u2013 but does not necessarily agree with \u2013 Beijing\u2019s opinion that Taiwan is its sovereign territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, the policy holds that the US considers Taiwan\u2019s sovereignty status unsettled, and successive presidential administrations have held that the US favors no change to the \u201cstatus quo\u201d of relations between China and Taiwan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the US also allows for its military to come to Taiwan\u2019s defense should Beijing attempt to take Taiwan by force, something both the Trump and Biden administrations stated repeatedly as US-China tensions began heating up in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

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Members of the bipartisan House Select Subcommittee on Countering the Chinese Communist Party last month issued a \u201cten for Taiwan\u201d<\/a> report laying out policy strategies lawmakers should consider to push back against China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In part, it says that the US should pass legislation that would state its official position in a more straight-forward manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he United States, alongside its allies and partners, should publicly oppose any attempts by the CCP to resolve the status of Taiwan\u2019s sovereignty by intentionally misusing, misinterpreting, and misleading others on the underlying purpose of \u2026 the United States\u2019 One China Policy,\u201d the subcommittee said in its report.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States and its allies need to strengthen and better coordinate collective planning for how they will deter or would respond diplomatically and economically to a crisis over Taiwan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maintaining the freedom of Taiwan is considerably more important than fighting for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 19, msn.com posted the following: Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised eyebrows Monday, telling reporters the US \u201cdoes not support Taiwan independence\u201d after meeting in Beijing with officials including Chinese President Xi Jinping. Blinken\u2019s statement ruffled the feathers … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16691,12562,13784,10148],"class_list":["post-50873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-msn","tag-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken","tag-taiwan-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50874,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873\/revisions\/50874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}