With tensions between the US and China rapidly increasing by the day, China’s ambassador to the US said Washington must make a “fundamental choice” over its relationship with Beijing.
“I think that the fundamental question for the United States is very simple,” Ambassador Cui Tiankai said in an interview with CNN on Saturday. “Is the United States ready or willing to live with another country with a very different culture, a very different political and economic system … in peace and cooperate on so many and still growing global challenges?”
Cui’s comments come as the Trump administration has taken actions over multiple flashpoints between the two powers, like Hong Kong, Xinjiang, the South China Sea, and trade. The Trump administration is also considering a sweeping travel ban that would target members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families.
On Sunday, China’s embassy in Myanmar responded to allegations against Beijing over the South China Sea. The Chinese embassy said the US is “outrageously smearing” the country and driving a wedge between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors. The embassy said the US was doing “disgusting things” to contain China and has shown a “selfish, hypocritical, contemptible, and ugly face.”
The Chinese embassy was responding to a statement released by the US embassy in Myanmar on Saturday. The US embassy said China’s recent actions in the South China Sea and Hong Kong were part of a “larger pattern to undermine the sovereignty of its neighbors.”
In recent weeks, the US has conducted massive military exercises in the South China Sea, including twice sending two aircraft carrier strike forces into the contested waters.
The US is by far the number one in undermining other countries sovereignty.
The US even sanctions, threatens and punish its friends and allies ( puppets & vassals ) if their policy is not in sync with US hegemony and unlawful acts.
Because we are the exceptional nation, it follows that we can’t live with the rest of humanity made up of the unter volk.
Peas in a pod with our current symbiotic totally-non-parasitic partner…
We must be doing something right if this bothers them so much. Those islands belong to Taiwan and we will get them back for them.
Who is “we”? You go right ahead — you can do it. You all thinking this way need to put money where your mouth is — volunteer.
We should all be able to chose to pay or not pay for wars or other overseas meddling expenditures. Cut those embassies. We have now technology to communicate. All waste of money.
Leading a Filibuster against the Chi-Coms is outta the paygrade and the capabilities of your garden variety internet troll….
Our printing presses are all greased and humming just fine these days. Please don’t say that our children and grand children will have to pay for all this down the road. You have to know that will never happen. Embassies cost very little to staff. We just rent the space. The 800 military bases we have which most surround China at every angle is what really bothers them.
I hope the Chinese send one of their reply cards yer way if it cums to that.
Yeah, and maybe you will pay that bill, but I don’t suppose your part time work stocking shelves will cover much of the cost. Debt is death delayed when beyond huge & means.
Always darkest B4 dawn. Trump is spending his load faster in the political arena, than he did with that publicity whare Storey Daniels… I am however STILL convinced he was the safer choice than….
in her platform: “Confront Russia” managed by her Super Woman self, who else but Hillarious hillary…?????
Hillary/Biden has at all times been much more warlike than Trump, and constantly attack Trump for not being warlike enough.
Yes, he did well. The biggest wrecking ball exposing all sorts of flaws in the system. And being the stereotype of boorish selfishness, narcissism, disrespect for others, making allies to either pay up — or stop whining about big bad Russia. Since all our allies are a schizophrenic mix of nationalists and globalists. Globalists are for US enthusiastic anti-Russia tune, nationalists are for focusing home, not US empire. France is more globalist, and UK is now US mini-me. So, fissures are showing, in the alliance as well as within each country. If US can unashamedly want American interests first — why would other countries support globalists fuzzy logic, instead solidly their own interests. So. realignment is under way. What would have Trump accomplished by being nice? Nothing. This way, these countries that cannot politically peel off — must be obedient and pay, these that want a looser relationship — oh well! Take care of your defense, no whining. Internally, same with states. What will shake out — no idea. But stares cannot have it both ways -/ mire power, but complaining about Feds not doing enough.
Unfortunately this is happening as the epidemics is raging, economy stumbling, anger on the streets, election politics.
Whoever wins — will not be accepted, Not on some phony grounds of Russiagate, but because society is splintering and nobody has a formula to bting us all together.
I mean, can you really ignore their atrocities? Tibet, Hong Kong, India and now Muslim holocaust? How can you ignore that? On the other hand, our foreign policy ought to reigned in. We don’t belong in the affairs of other peoples nations, sending our youth to die. It could be considered however that china’s goal is to conquer the US, among other nations, in ways that we may not be aware.