Salazar, the chair of HFAC’s Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, said at a Feb. MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR (R-Fla.) at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing last month about Argentina’s relationship with China have sparked a diplomatic spat. “We are headed towards further intensifying rivalry,” Friedberg said.Īrgentine ambassador attacks “openly offensive” China-ties commentsĮscandaloso! Comments by Rep. Meanwhile, expect the bilateral relationship’s negative trajectory to continue. FRIEDBERG, former deputy assistant for national security affairs in the Office of the Vice President and professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Qin’s objective may have been to fuel public and policymaker concern about the Biden administration’s increasingly uncompromising policy settings toward China.īeijing is “trying to ratchet up anxiety about worsening relations and a possible impending clash much as they did when then-House Speaker NANCY PELOSI visited Taiwan - it’s tactical, aimed at elite and public opinion in the U.S. His speech demonstrated “that the now-short lived Chinese Communist Party charm offensive was nothing more than a mirage designed to dupe gullible parties into believing the Party has fundamentally turned a corner in the the aftermath of zero-Covid,” said committee chair MIKE GALLAGHER (R-Wis.). Qin’s performance didn’t win him any friends on the new House China Select Committee, either. McCaul urged Biden to “respond with strength.” Qin’s assertions were “incredibly inflammatory and reveal the CCP’s intent to challenge the status quo,” said House Foreign Affairs Committee chair MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-Texas) in a statement. Qin’s words evoked less charitable comments from other parts of Capitol Hill. “With all due respect to the Chinese foreign minister, there is no change to the United States posture when it comes to this bilateral relationship,” National Security Council spokesperson JOHN KIRBY told reporters on Tuesday. The Biden administration responded to Qin’s comments with an attitude of weary restraint. and other Western countries were guilty of “all-round containment, encirclement and suppression against us, bringing unprecedentedly severe challenges to our country’s development.” That’s a markedly different tone from when Xi met with President JOE BIDEN in Bali in November and called for a return to “the track of healthy and stable growth to the benefit of the two countries.” China hawks’ perceptions of a worsening China threat.Īnd it echoed Xi’s accusation earlier that day that the U.S. The speech signaled that Beijing won’t make a first move to erase tensions in a relationship roiled by a series of incidents - ranging from last month’s Chinese spy balloon debacle to recent administration warnings that Beijing is considering providing lethal weaponry to Russia in its war against Ukraine - that have confirmed U.S. of “covertly formulating a plan for the destruction of Taiwan.” policies toward China risk putting the two countries on a path to “conflict and confrontation.” Qin’s diatribe veered toward dystopic when he accused the U.S. of “malicious confrontation,” decrying “hysterical neo-McCarthyism” on Capitol Hill and warning that U.S. Enter a stern, Chinese-constitution brandishing Qin accusing the U.S. Gone was the Qin whose dovish Washington Post op-ed in December conjured folksy images of the then-ambassador on a John Deere tractor talking up agricultural trade with U.S. transgressions against Chinese sovereignty, as I reported after Qin left the podium. The Chinese government is in no hurry to try to reverse the slide of the U.S.-China relationship into frosty acrimony.Ĭhinese paramount leader XI JINPING tasked newly minted Foreign Minister QIN GANG to channel his best wolf warrior in a two hour press conference on Monday that became a rant against alleged U.S. And with U.S.-China relations plunging to ever-new lows, we profile a book that reminds us how ping-pong players, musicians and scientists were an essential vanguard of efforts to normalize bilateral ties back in the (more hopeful) 1970s. This week we assess the state of bilateral ties following Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s U.S.-bashing screed on Monday, scrutinize a congressional diplomatic spat with Argentina and parse the politics of China’s “picking quarrels” law. China's foreign minister Qin Gang attends a press conference during the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress at Media Center on Main Beijing, China.
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