• Antony Blinken, Janet Yellen and John Kerry have traveled to Beijing in recent months to stabilize relations between the United States and China.
• Biden administration officials have yielded to the Chinese Communist Party on what foreign policy experts and civil servants have described as worrying. tExperts said the lackluster nature of his negotiations speaks volumes about China’s position with the United States.
• “U.S. officials are learning how difficult it is to advance relations with China,” Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy research at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “China can say no because its economy is bigger than the former Soviet Union compared to the US economy.”

Recent efforts by the Biden administration to ease tensions between the United States and China are expected to weaken, according to foreign policy experts and government officials.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Presidential Climate Change Special Envoy John Kerry visited Beijing this summer to negotiate resuming military communications, de-escalating the ongoing trade war and addressing the climate crisis. The negotiations were considered lackluster at best and a “failure” at worst, expressing broad concerns about relations between China and the United States, foreign policy experts and officials said.

“U.S. officials are learning how difficult it is to advance relations with China,” Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy research at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “China, which has a larger economy than the Soviet Union so far compared to the US economy, can say no.

The latest effort to stabilize relations with China began with Secretary of State Anthony Brinken’s visit to Beijing in June. At that time, Secretary of State Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said the Biden administration had no interest in conflict with the Chinese government, stressing the need for open communication between the two militaries. The Chinese Communist Party rejected the request after Mr. Blinken raised the issue “repeatedly,” according to NBC. report.

Instead of securing a demarcation line between the military, Mr. Blinken publicly reaffirmed that the Biden administration would not support Taiwan independence immediately after being instructed by CCP Foreign Minister Wang Yi to do so. Blinken also said a reconnaissance balloon that was caught flying over the continental United States in February was “a dangerous event.” [that] should be closed. ”

The Biden administration wants everyone to forget about Xi Jinping’s spy balloon.

Blinken: “That chapter should be closed.” pic.twitter.com/aNx5jpnYAG

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 20, 2023

Leading Republican congressmen outraged Mr. Blinken’s concessions, accusing him of being weak in the face of the rapidly growing threat from the Chinese Communist Party.

“I am deeply concerned by the apparent failure of Secretary Blinken’s visit to Beijing. statement. “Secretary Blinken’s failure to address China’s aggressive actions against Taiwan is alarming…Brinken’s ignorance of the Chinese Communist Party’s reconnaissance balloon that recently crossed the United States is absurd and completely disregards the concerns of the American public.”

Blinken’s visit was followed by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 6 to defuse rising economic tensions and the ongoing trade war in which China has imposed export restrictions on metals essential to semiconductor manufacturing. Ms Yellen repeatedly bowed before China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng, embarrassing officials and foreign policy experts alike. according to to the New York Post. (Related: China threatens retaliation as Biden administration considers new chip limits)

“Never, never, never. American officials don’t bow their heads. She seems to have been summoned to the principal’s office, but it’s exactly the optics the Chinese like,” said Bradley Blakeman, a former senior official in the George W. Bush administration. Said NYP. “We have been humiliated and weak over and over again under this administration, and it only shows the lack of effective leverage we have.”

#we Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen bowed repeatedly. #Chinese Communist economic emperor.

Such a bow is clearly excessive and seems submissive. It’s embarrassing.pic.twitter.com/0pXcIao1a1

— Indo-Pacific News – Geopolitics and Defense News (@IndoPac_Info) July 9, 2023

After the trip, Yellen said she would make greater efforts to communicate between the two countries despite “substantial disagreements” and said the Biden administration believed “the world is big enough for both of us to thrive.” according to to Reuters.

Yellen has previously said it was “virtually impossible” to disconnect from China’s economy because of its size and integration with the United States.

“Mr. Yellen is probably right that a ‘massive separation’ of the two economies…if possible would be very unstable,” Logan told the DCNF. “But if China’s economy continues to grow, it will overtake the United States to become the world’s largest economy and potentially the world’s largest military power.”

Stabilization efforts with China culminated in a July 16 visit to Beijing by Presidential Special Envoy John Kerry. Mr. Kelly aimed to find common ground with Chinese Communist Party officials on a joint U.S.-China plan to combat the climate crisis. Said He wanted nothing to get in the way of finding a solution.

After China’s President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would “never be influenced by other countries” on its climate change initiative policy, Kelly returned to the United States without making much progress and said the two countries needed more time to “break new ground.” Chinese Communist Party Vice President Han Zheng suggested that China could cooperate with the United States on climate policy, but that it would have to meet certain political requirements, which would be achieved “based on the presence of the United States on core issues of concern to both sides.”

Kelly said the United States and China “haven’t finished finding a path” in tackling climate change, but said the CCP is doing an “incredible job” in tackling green energy, including manufacturing solar panels that are said to be produced by slave labor in Xinjiang and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

John Kerry is currently in China and has “begged the Chinese government to cooperate and initiate a response.” [climate] with the necessary urgency pic.twitter.com/gW1EAYjYSk

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2023

Republican Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher said in an interview with Fox News, “John Kerry is actually the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite person to deal with, because he believes we need to work with China on climate change.” “And John Kerry and many others in the Biden administration fail to see the obvious fact that the greatest threat we face is not climate change, but the Chinese Communist Party itself…This is utterly disconcerting and shameful.”

Before leaving, Kerry raised the notion that President Biden himself could be the next Biden administration official to meet with the Chinese Communist Party at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in November. according to To NBC News. (Related: Biden administration: Our strategy is not to ‘check’ China)

“The Biden administration, like its predecessor, the Trump administration, is committed to building a healthy U.S.-China relationship that reflects the current balance of power,” Logan told DCNF. “China’s tough stance suggests that the Chinese government believes the balance is likely to tip in China’s favor.”

The State Department, Treasury Department and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

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