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June 20, 2023

The Morning Report — 6/20/23

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Good morning kids. So, Anthony Blinken had a highly-anticipated and from most accounts desperately sought after summit with international winner the Pooh, Xi Jinping. Before enlightening you on the aftermath of that meeting, as if you couldn't guess, a bit of background on our current Secretary of State, courtesy of the indispensable Discover The Networks. These are just my bullet points but you can click here for the gory details.

- Supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and as national security advisor to then-Senator Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, told him he should support it.
- Supported the so-called Arab Spring which set the entire Middle East alight and destabilized the region.
- Defended the exchange of five Taliban big-wig terrorists for American traitor Bowe Bergdahl.
- Strident supporter of the Iran nuke sellout and opposed to designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.
- Had advance knowledge of the pending collapse of Afghanistan beforehand yet did nothing, and in the wake of the disaster, both claimed it was a success while blaming Trump.
- Hates Israel, has a hard-on for the so-called "Palestinians."
- Opposed the attempted coup against Turkish dictator and radical Islamist Erdogan.
- At one time he worked at the now notorious Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy, which has become a locus for the Biden Family mass influence-peddling operation.
- Suspended the Trump Administrations asylum policies and helped fling our borders wide open.
- Big-time "climate change" pimp.
- Ordered our embassies to fly the fag flag and the BLM flag.
- Constantly apologizing for and running down America wherever he goes.

And on and on and on. That said, only last March, Blinken had a face to face in Alaska with a counterpart from Beijing, in which he got pimp-slapped. And that's being charitable:

During a public meeting in Alaska that would normally have been a photo-op, Chinese officials savaged Secretary of State Tony Blinken for calling out Chinese human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, and urging China to obey the "rules-based international order."

“Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability. That’s why they’re not merely internal matters and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues,” Blinken said. “The United States relationship with China will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, adversarial where it must be.”

Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi delivered a nearly 20-minute lecture in response, where he denounced the "international community" and "so-called rules-based international order" as the "United Nations-centered international system" and a tool of the U.S. . .

. . . “The fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well. ...The challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter.”

“We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world,” he said. “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.”

And this is the guy we send to meet Xi Jinping. When you read his rap sheet, it's obvious that everything Blinken has done, believes or supports throughout his entire career has proven to be completely wrong and in many cases disastrously so. To be fair, since the end of World War 2 and perhaps even before, Foggy Bottom's priorities had American interests take a back seat to the so-called international order.

But this is especially the case when Leftist Democrats control things. Normally, that execrable Mongoloid's remarks should have caused an American ambassador to stand, turn on him, and exit while blowing a loud wet flatus in the Asian's face. The problem here is every blood libel he hurled at Blinken about America's inherent human rights failings is only him repeating what Blinken and his boss and their party feel about their own country to begin with!

And so, Blinken is off to meet with Xi, hoping to ease tensions between us and them.

It was uncertain whether China’s President Xi Jinping would agree to give an audience to Secretary Blinken until, with about 45 minutes notice, Xi and Blinken ended up meeting for about a half hour.

Secretary Blinken conveyed the same message in person to China’s leadership that the Biden administration has been uttering for months. Keep the channels of communication open “to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” Blinken told Wang Yi.

China’s message during Secretary Blinken’s visit was also the same as its leaders have uttered many times before. According to China’s view of why tensions between China and the United States have risen so sharply, the U.S. has failed to show due respect for China’s vital national interests, particularly regarding China’s territorial claim to Taiwan. “State-to-state interactions should always be based on mutual respect and sincerity,” President Xi remarked.

A few days before Secretary Blinken’s visit, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang spoke more bluntly during his phone call with Secretary Blinken. He demanded that the United States “show respect” for China’s core concerns and “stop undermining China’s sovereignty, security and development interests in the name of competition.” That is a bit rich coming from the country which sent a spy balloon over U.S. sovereign airspace earlier this year to surveil sensitive U.S. military sites, and which set up a secret Chinese police station on U.S. soil.

There was not a single reported acknowledgement of responsibility by China’s leaders, much less an apology, for China’s invasions of U.S. sovereignty and security. Then again, they see no reason to do so with [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden in the White House. President Biden showed how weak and out of touch with reality he is when he said, shortly before Secretary Blinken’s arrival in China, that the spy balloon incursion was more “embarrassing” for China’s leadership “than it was intentional.”

Secretary Blinken’s face-to-face meetings with China’s leaders were not only a waste of time. As Republican Representative Elise Stefanik of New York warned, Secretary Blinken’s trip would only serve to “legitimize” the Chinese Communist Party’s “continued subversion of our sovereignty.”

President Xi is not content with ousting America’s military and economic presence in China’s own neck of the woods and ensuring China’s dominance in Asia. President Xi’s ultimate goal is to build up a combination of military, technological, and economic powers sufficient to prove to many nations of the world the superiority of the Chinese authoritarian model of governance. Coupling these powers with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and other global soft power initiatives, President Xi is aiming to establish the primacy of his regime’s own version of a multilateral world order with China at its center.

Despite President Xi’s talk of “mutual respect” at his meeting with Secretary Blinken, Xi has no respect for the United States and especially no respect for [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden.

Speaking of Biden, shouldn't he be the one to meet with Xi? Considering his latest impression of Sid Vicious at a gun control rally . . . Yeah. Of late, Xi has stuck his nose in the Middle East with deals with the Saudis, sucking up to the "Palestinians" and becoming the mediator of the "peace process" and is now making deals with our alleged European allies. And while a desperately sought after deal regarding bilateral military communications to avoid conflict was, er, shot down, Blinken opened his cake hole about Taiwan and a flood of Biden spilled out.

BLINKEN: “On Taiwan, I reiterated the long standing U.S. One China Policy. That policy has not changed. It’s guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, Three Joint Communiqués, the Six Assurances. We do not support Taiwan independence. We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.”

We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross strait differences. We remain committed to continuing our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act including making sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.”

“At the same time, we and many others have deep concerns about some of the provocative actions that China has taken in recent years going back to 2016,” Blinken added. “And the reason that this is a concern for so many countries, not just the United States, is that were there to be a crisis over Taiwan, the likelihood is that could produce an economic crisis that could affect quite literally the entire world.”

. . . Geez, what a slap in the face to American politicians who have traveled to Taiwan. In 2022, Nancy Pelosi said in Taiwan: “America’s determination to preserve democracy here in Taiwan and around the world remains ironclad.”

The initial clusterfuck was Biden's tipping his hand a while back and openly stating that a minor incursion by the Chi-Coms into Taiwan would be acceptable, and then later declaring the US would defend Taiwanese territorial integrity, and it went from there vis a vis Pelosi and then McCarthy. Now Blinken is essentially telegraphing to Xi that, since we do not support Taiwan's independence, coupled with our own lack of preparedness and competence both strategically and on the front lines, is just an open invitation for Taiwan to be subsumed.

The only hope is that the PLA underestimates the resolve of Taiwan to defend itself, and that any invasion winds up with the same outcome as the Russians now face in Ukraine. And a seaborne invasion is not an easy thing, regardless of who the combatants are. Also, the ChiCom military industrial complex and government are quite possibly even more corrupt than you can imagine. That said, their abilities at asymmetric warfare and psyops to accomplish a victory via subversion cannot be discounted. Hell, they've basically subverted much of this country and government already, so what the hell is a little island off its coast?

And Anthony Blinken is not a one-off nor an outlier. He is representative of the mindset and competence of virtually everyone of our self-styled "elites" and a large swathe of the mid to upper echelons of our government.

    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • Michael Anton: (from last July) “Our rulers’ wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war.”
    They Can't Let Him Back In
  • Michael Walsh: "If you don't want a goddamn self-driving electric car, if you don't fancy a protein diet of bugs, if you don't want to live as a prisoner in a '15-minute city,' or dwell in a soulless high-rise apartment like a denizen of the Peoples Republic of China, then familiarize yourself with the facts . . . "
    Heisenberg's Revenge
  • Robert Spencer: " . . . the fact remains that the Muslims are absolutely right in Hamtramck: the city shouldn’t be pushing the Left’s obsession with sexual deviance and perversion any more than it should be pushing any other religion. But the lesson here is also that Muslim leaders in the U.S. understandably want to uphold Islamic values, and the dissonance between those values and Western values is going to become increasingly apparent. For years, Leftists have been shutting down open discussion of that fact by claiming that it’s 'Islamophobic.' Now they’re the ones cast as the “Islamophobes.” Grab some popcorn and pull up a chair."
    Leftists Feeling Betrayed After Muslim-Governed Michigan City Bans Pride Flag


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