Xi Fooled Biden, Again
Commentary
Joe Biden met Xi Jinping in Bali, for the first time in Biden’s presidency. Some analysts say the meeting finally gave the president the opportunity to tell Xi, face-to-face, that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression against Taiwan and genocide against the Uyghurs, not to mention Tibet and the Falun Gong, are unacceptable.
Biden could have demanded a proper scientific investigation of the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan—something Xi has forbidden to the international community.
Despite arguments against enabling and ennobling an intransigent totalitarian by granting Xi a public meeting with a U.S. president, analysts argue that face-to-face is the only reliable way to influence Xi with facts….