While most media outlets intentionally focus on how China’s congratulations on Thursday to Joe Biden for his supposed presidential win were “belated,” the fact is all the countries who have done so already have been premature. As I have noted, Biden is not president-elect – yet.
Nevertheless, Beijing is clearly happy with a possible Biden win, having Chinese state media bashing President Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for days. This was a prelude to show Biden their difference in approaches to Team Trump and Team Biden.
And now China has officially congratulated Biden for winning, despite, notes CNN, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin admitting that: “At the same time, we understand that the outcome of this U.S. election will be ascertained in accordance with US laws and procedures.”
It was a curious translation to use the term “ascertain” since that is the term used by the 1963 Presidential Transition Act when referring to the requirement that the federal General Services Administration (GSA) designate a winner before a transition can begin. This is something, which I pointed out earlier, has not yet been done.
Why their supposed caution in celebrating Biden’s win more prominently? CNN notes:
Chinese state-run media has so far been cautious in its handling of Biden’s win in comparison to its increasingly strident tone towards the Trump administration, amid an ongoing deterioration in bilateral relations.
While some outlets have published profiles of Biden or highlighted a popular Beijing restaurant he visited in 2011, most Chinese media has focused their post-US election coverage on alleged fraud and ensuing turmoil.
Experts have suggested that Beijing might have been reluctant to do anything that risked antagonizing the outgoing US administration in its final months in power.
Still, Joe Biden’s close and questionable business and other ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime – via his son Hunter Biden during his time as vice president – and beyond – and Joe Biden’s inability to call China even something as innocuous as an “opponent,” surely makes Chinese leaders hopeful of a confirmed Biden win.
The U.S. Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) also confirmed in an earlier Election Threat statement that the Intelligence Community (IC) assesses that China’s regime wanted President Trump to lose, and hence favored a Biden win.
President Trump is the first president to forcefully respond to the expanding China threat. He has made it clear that the U.S. stands with its allies in the Pacific such as Taiwan, and others threatened by China’s maritime bullying and expansion.
Trump has extended U.S. naval forces further into areas in the South China Sea claimed by China, rapidly built up U.S. missiles and other forces to face China, and also bulked up the “Quad” – the informal coalition of India, Australia, Japan, and the U.S., to counter Chinese expansionism.
The Trump administration has also pushed back hard on the massive and unprecedented Chinese espionage effort in the U.S., IP theft, and technology. With Trump, China faces an opponent more like Ronald Reagan countering the U.S.S.R. than any other they have faced.
With Biden potentially compromised by the CCP to the point he can’t even call China an “opponent,” the CCP hopes with him in the White House to return to decades of business as usual, essentially appeasement and engagement.
Beijing is probably celebrating a Biden win much more loudly privately, inside the Forbidden City.
China is able to flex their gums no thanks to our cowards in government they help China get big and made USA weak by selling our good to them. All the politicans who made it possible needs to face big time jail
After years of claiming “Trump is in Putin’s pocket!”, they now applaud Biden being celebrated by our enemies. Think about that. Why would our enemies want Biden in office as badly as Democrats?
…our enemies and the fascistcrats (there’s nothing democratic about that crime syndicate) are one and the same….
As pelosi said China wants Biden. China knows how to run a communist country. Possibly virus was set on world by China in particular to destroy America. They possibly have a cure and can give it to Biden to give him even more power to completely turn America into a third world socialist country without God. Democrats have already weakened America since President Trump has been in office by defunding the police, wanting open borders to allow anyone, anything in America, destroying America’s history, creating atmosphere people don’t know if they are male or female or both, disrespecting the flag, America, political correctness, every word is racism, violence, looting. Burning in American cities, fighting anything President Trump recommends and on and on. May God help America.
Joe will go down in history as “Chinese Biden” much like one of England’s “heroes” General “Chinese” Gordon, but for a much different reason.
China was less than happy with the way trade negotiations were going with the Trump administration. The agreements would curtail some of China’s unfair trade practices. With Biden in the oval office those negotiations would come to an end and it would be business as usual for China. Of course the want am American President who will be a doormat they can walk over.
…china owns biden…a bigger share even than soros…they deliberately released their bio-weapon with full co-operation from the fascistcrat crime syndicate, on the condition that they, the crats, would eventually nominate the senile child-groper…of whom they have full control…
The world is laughing at America for the Biden potential win. Who in their right mind would think that a 78 year old perv with signs of dementia who is owned by CCP and a 47 year useless politician with a bigoted background is fit to be POTUS ?
Out of everything I’ve been seeing on TV with the Democratic over the last 4 years they cannot be trusted they are compulsive liars and cheaters he’s going to go back and kiss China’s but when they released the virus over here and didn’t tell no one just like Nancy Pelosi said he will not be president next year she sure was being all full certainty about that