Biden staff look like ‘teens in love’ trying to cozy up to China: Republican rips into White House diplomacy ‘projecting weakness’ to Beijing
- Defense Minister Lloyd Austin met with his counterpart in Singapore
- sec. State Blinken canceled its own trip in February after a spy balloon flapped
- A Chinese ship forced a US destroyer to avoid collision in the Taiwan Strait
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has ridiculed an emerging bid by the Biden administration to reestablish contacts with China amid tensions over Taiwan and Russia — comparing the diplomatic dance to “teens in love.”
Cotton, a Republican Chinese hawk, made the remarks on “Fox News Sunday,” as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shook hands with his Chinese counterpart.
The White House has stopped saying any kind of thaw is underway after Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to Beijing over China’s spy balloon scandal in February.
Biden administration officials should stop chasing their Chinese communist counterparts as lovesick teenagers. It’s embarrassing and it’s pathetic,’ he said smoked.
Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark in a June 4, 2023 appearance on FOX News Sunday blasted the Biden administration’s attempts to reconnect with China, likening them to “in love” teens
His comment came after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shook hands with his counterpart, Li Shangfu, at a dinner party in Singapore.
The government has not said that rapprochement is underway. The Pentagon said the effort was part of a push to establish “military-to-military communications” to prevent potential escalating mishaps.
Asked Friday if there was a “thaw,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president “looks forward to speaking with President Xi.” As you know, they’ve spoken many times over the past two years.’
A People’s Republic of China (PRC) warship, identified by the US Indo-Pacific Command as PRC LY 132, crosses paths with the US Navy destroyer USS Chung-Hoon as it passed through the Taiwan Strait on the frigate HMCS Montreal from the Royal Canadian Navy June 3, 2023
sec. State Blinken canceled its own trip in February after a Chinese spy balloon made its way over the mainland US before the US military shot it down over the Atlantic coast.
The US military today shared video of an “unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend in which a Chinese naval vessel forced a US destroyer to avoid collision after it sharply cut its path.
Amid a joint US-Canadian “freedom of navigation” operation across the strait on Saturday, the Luyang III guided-missile destroyer overtook the USS Chung-Hoon and swerved across the bow to within 500 feet, the US said. Indo Pacific Command.