This isn’t really a revelation. But anyway, it’s been revealed by insiders that when Joe Biden said after his November powwow with Xi Jinping in San Francisco that he, Biden, on the basis of this meeting of minds “expects no interference” in Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election, he was lying through his teeth.
Did we need inside information about the meeting to be able to come to this conclusion? Among other forms of attempted intimidation and manipulation, Xi has been flinging fighter jets, fighter ships, fighter satellites, and fighter propaganda at Taiwan all along for many months now, all but opening fire. If that’s not interference, what the heck would count as interference? Only bombing of Taiwan’s polling booths?
But it would be futile to ask such questions of the devious and deviating U.S. president. He would just wander around the room confusedly for a few minutes and wander off.
As relayed by Stephen Green, one of the Instapundit crew:
The major point of contention between the two nation’s chiefs was over Taiwan, but Biden described the discussion as “clear-headed” and “not heated.” Furthermore, Biden said that after talking with Xi, he “expects no interference” from Beijing in Taiwan’s election scheduled for January.
But behind closed doors, NBC News reported on Wednesday, Xi told Biden point-blank that Beijing “will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided.” Xi also reportedly told Biden he would “prefer” to take Taiwan peacefully but, hey, sometimes amphibious and airborne invasions on a scale not seen since World War II happen.
This is all according to three current and former U.S. officials who attended the “constructive and productive discussions” and spoke with NBC….
Xi also told Biden—and this was on the record in November—that “The US side should…stop arming Taiwan, and support China’s peaceful reunification.” The not-so-veiled threat of war is something we’re only finding out about today.
According to the NBC report (“Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China,” December 20, 2023):
Xi’s private warning to Biden, while not markedly different from his past public comments on reunifying Taiwan, got the attention of U.S. officials because it was delivered at a time when China’s behavior toward Taiwan is seen as increasingly aggressive and ahead of a potentially pivotal presidential election in the self-governing democratic island next month….
At last year’s Chinese Communist Party Congress, Xi stated publicly that China would attack Taiwan militarily if it declares independence with foreign support. The Chinese leader said the threat of force “is directed solely at interference by outside forces and the few separatists seeking” Taiwanese independence….
One Chinese official who attended the meeting, Hua Chunying, posted afterward on X [Twitter] that Xi had told Biden and other U.S. officials that the “Taiwan question remains the most important and most sensitive issue in China-U.S. relations.” Hua added that the U.S. should “support China’s peaceful reunification” and that “China will realize reunification, and this is unstoppable.”
A “peaceful reunification” of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan—which is already an independent country despite the word games of Chinese Communist Party officials—would not be peaceful for the Taiwanese whom the CCP begins imprisoning as soon as such a unification (not “re”-unification) were accomplished.
