{"id":3066,"date":"2023-11-14T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:56:25","slug":"biden-can-meet-xi-from-a-position-of-moral-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/11\/14\/biden-can-meet-xi-from-a-position-of-moral-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Can Meet Xi From a Position of Moral Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xi Jinping\u2019s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) evidently has nothing against terrorism when it can be used to further China\u2019s national and geopolitical interests. In their San Francisco meeting planned for Wednesday, President Biden should forcefully tell Xi that exploiting Islamist terrorist violence as a wedge against the West will only drag China\u2019s moral reputation further into the dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By now the failure of Xi and other Chinese leaders to forcefully condemn the attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 has revealed a disgraceful Machiavellianism. Hamas murdered around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2535_665405\/202310\/t20231008_11157299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,200 mostly Jewish Israeli citizens<\/a>\u00a0and others, the worst assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, a genocidal massacre driven by virulent antisemitism. But top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi could not bring himself to describe it in any way other than the language of moral equivalency \u2014 as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2535_665405\/202310\/t20231008_11157299.html\">escalation of tensions between Palestine and Israel<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and called on \u201call parties to adopt a restrained attitude.\u201d Without mentioning the slaughter of Israelis, he said the \u201curgent task\u201d was to \u201cavoid a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese authorities falsely claim that the threat of Islamist terrorism and separatism requires and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2020\/02\/asia\/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">justifies their incarceration<\/a>\u00a0and torture of more than a million Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. But they obviously have calculated that excusing the Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel, and blaming Israel and the United States for civilian deaths in the war in Gaza, will help align China with developing countries and people around the world, including in Western democracies, who decry colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese people have a right to resent China\u2019s past exploitation by colonial powers, yet the CCP has played the victim card to leverage nationalistic sentiment needed to divert attention from the regime\u2019s heavy-handed denial of basic freedoms and public policy failures. With a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/trade\/china-exports-drop-more-than-expected-signaling-continued-headwinds-dc57b719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faltering economy<\/a>\u00a0and growing disenchantment among some young people, ideological and even military conflict can be seen as essential to regime stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In view of the deep moral hypocrisy epitomized by these clumsy efforts to instrumentalize a major tragedy, Biden can and should approach Xi from a position of strength. He should not be afraid to draw a sharp distinction between China\u2019s hegemonic vision of a \u201ccommunity of common destiny for mankind\u201d and America\u2019s tradition of supporting individual rights and freedoms. Autocratic leaders who see cooperation with China as key to their power may buy into Xi\u2019s bromides, but people who value liberty and truth do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aaron Rhodes is a senior fellow and Cheryl Yu is a senior researcher at Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/themessenger.com\/opinion\/biden-xi-jinping-china-hamas-israel-terrorism-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Messenger<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CCP has played the victim card to leverage nationalistic sentiment needed to divert attention from the regime\u2019s heavy-handed denial of basic freedoms and public policy failures.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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