A known killer is being permitted to enter the United States.
He is responsible. As head of government and as an effective centralizer of power in his own person after acceding to the post of dictator in 2012, Xi Jinping has made sure that he has the foremost responsibility for the genocidal campaign inaugurated in 2017 against the Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang, many of whom have been murdered in camps or prisons; and for the sustained assaults on the persons and liberties of many others, including Tibetans, Hong Kongers, critics of the Chinese Communist Party regime, and everybody else in China.
He can’t do it alone. Many have helped inflict the regime’s brutalities. They too are responsible. But nobody is more responsible than Xi, who is no mere figurehead.
So why is the United States letting this guy into the country? And why, once he’s here, would you be willing to pay $2,000 for the alleged pleasure of dining with him and imbibing his cortex-corrupting CCP-speak? By “you” I mean not you but American corporate personnel called “elites” by Newsweek (“American Corporate Elites Pay $2,000 a Head to Dine With China’s Xi Jinping,” November 8, 2023).
A dinner reception for Xi hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the U.S.-China Business Council will be held on November 15, 2023 in San Francisco. While he is in the United States, Xi may or may not at some point also sit down for a powwow with our addlepated, balloon-watching president, Biden.
Xi last visited the United States in 2017 and last hobnobbed with Biden in 2022, in Bali. It was on that momentous occasion that Xi told Biden that U.S.-China relations must “move forward on the right course without losing direction or speed, still less having a collision.” For if there is anything that China eschews like the devil in relations with others, it is collisions.
Wise words—or anyway, words—are also flowing from the CCP about the import of the impending affair in San Francisco in anticipation of the words that Xi will be delivering on that occasion. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin is the messenger. After thinking things over carefully, he recently told reporters that “The road to San Francisco will not be smooth sailing and cannot rely on automatic driving. The two sides must effectively ‘return to Bali’ and truly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, eliminate interference, overcome obstacles, enhance consensus, and accumulate experience.”
What does this patented CCP gibberish mean aside from “don’t interfere with our sundry interfering”? Did Biden agree in Bali to help Xi to invade Taiwan and Bhutan and to kidnap Chinese nationals who have escaped to the United States? Or what, exactly? What is the nature of the hopefully fictitious consensus that is so important to enhance? And what are we supposed to be accumulating experience about that isn’t already amply documented in contemporary accounts and the history books?
