Reading like talking points right out of the Chinese Community Party playbook, President Biden appeared in a CNN townhall Tuesday night in Milwaukee, where he stated that as President of the United States, he will not speak out against China’s Human rights violations, and in particular the genocide of the Uighurs, as that is simply a different cultural norm that the Chinese leaders are expected to follow.
Chinese leaders if you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home. So the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.
I point out to him, “no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States,” and so the idea…I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uighurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan, and the One China Policy by making it forceful, I said…he gets it.
Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow.
China has been documented engaging in a brutal, systemic assault of its people for years, having locked-up over to a million Muslim in non-judicial camps, where they engage in re-education, torture, forced abortions, mass rape, forced sterilization, beatings, forced labor, brainwashing, and murder.
These actions from China led US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to say just a few weeks ago: “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state.”
Naturally, in an article appearing on CNN titled afterward titled 6 takeaways from Joe Biden’s CNN town hall, there is no mention of this, with instead one of the chief takeaways gushing over how “empathetic” Biden is.
Biden as comforter in chief: Perhaps the biggest contrast between Biden and the man he replaced in office is empathy. Former President Donald Trump had none; Biden is all empathy, wearing his heart on his sleeve. The town hall format played to Biden’s strength in that regard.
