In June, America and China traded hacks.
Secretary
of State Blinken traveled to Beijing in a visit that had been delayed
for a few months after the public learned that China had been flying a
spy balloon over America. After days of “high-level talks”, the Biden
administration official claimed that the trip was a success.
“We have made progress and we are moving forward,” the State Department official declared.
Meanwhile,
China had been hacking.the State Department. While Secretary of State
Blinken and State Department officials prepped for the biggest Chinese
diplomatic exchange of the administration, Chinese hackers pulled off an
ingenious targeted attack aimed at accessing the emails of State
Department and other government officials including Blinken’s own
messages.
The Biden administration and China had different definitions of “moving forward”.
Secretary
of State Blinken learned that China had tried to hack his emails a day
before he was set to visit Beijing, and he chose to go ahead with the
trip without making any public mention of it, not wanting to spoil the
photo op. The previous scheduling of the trip had been bumped because of
China’s spy balloon and Blinken chose to demonstrate to the enemy that
no amount of abusive behavior was going to stop the Biden
administration’s appeasement.
The Biden administration’s idea of
diplomacy was talking to China, while the People’s Republic wanted to
know what Blinken and other top officials were going to say before they
got there. Besides targeting Blinken and State Department officials,
Chinese hackers also came after Commerce Secretary Raimondo and members
of her department. That won’t stop Raimondo from visiting China later
this year. No Chinese attack or provocation will stop the appeasement.
Secretary
of State Blinken turned to the cameras in Beijing and stated that an
agreement had been reached that “sustained communication at senior
levels is the best way to responsibly manage our differences” even while
knowing that China’s idea of sustained communication was trying to get
at his emails. China has its own idea of how to “establish better lines
of communication” and it begins by hacking the hacks to read their
communications.
And the Biden administration’s idea of better communications is to hide what happened.
When
an incident spills out into the press, the Biden administration brings
out Hillary Clinton’s old ‘reset button’ and announces that diplomatic
meetings have made everything right again.
Even though the hack
had been made public by Microsoft, the Biden administration has not
directly addressed it because that might interfere with its China
diplomacy. That is in keeping with its policy of refusing to talk about
any Chinese attack that doesn’t happen in broad daylight.
The
Biden administration initially refused to take action against China’s
spy balloon and covered up reports about it while pleading with the
Chinese embassy for answers. Only when photos of the balloon taken by
Montana residents went viral did the administration finally shoot it
down.
The State Department hadn’t wanted the spy balloon to
interfere with Blinken’s trip. Even while it publicly condemned China,
it was quietly appeasing it, shutting down export controls and human rights measures as an apology for the public action taken against its spy balloon.
Biden
has since dismissed the spy balloon as “unintentional” and “silly” and
has spent the spring and summer dispatching his top hacks to plead our
case to the Communists in Beijing. The Communist dictatorship turned
down a meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, instead it
publicly showed off a simulation in which it destroyed the USS Gerald R.
Ford and conducted aggressive intercepts of Navy vessels and Air Force
planes. It’s reportedly building up its spy operation in Cuba and may
start actually moving troops onto the Communist island.
Rather than address China’s aggression, Biden has kept on sending more emissaries.
The
exchange of hacks has been going on all summer with CIA Director Bill
Burns making a ‘secret’ trip to China in June to tell the Communist
spies about “the importance of maintaining open lines of communication
in intelligence channels.” China’s idea of maintaining open lines of
communication was to hack the CIA and expose its agents during the Obama
administration.
Despite China’s high-profile hacks, the
high-profile hacks keep coming. Next up, Climate Envoy John Kerry, the
administration’s leading apologist for China, will visit in the middle
of July. Instead of advocating for the climate, Kerry has advocated for
Chinese slave labor solar panels and argued that none of its crimes,
national, international or against us, compare to the grave climate
threat from ordinary Americans driving to work or running their air
conditioners.
It’s doubtful that China has gone to the trouble of hacking Kerry and his team. Why bother?
The
message from all of these visits is that there will be no meaningful
consequences. Whatever China does, the Biden administration will keep
pursuing “dialogue” to maintain “open communications” to “stabilize the
relationship”. And that gives China a green light to attack.
“I
think there is a way to resolve, to establish a working relationship
with China that benefits them and us,” Biden claimed. China already has a
working relationship with us. China attacks us and we try to figure out
why it would do such a thing. Spy balloons, military encounters,
threats of destruction and hacks are met with diplomatic appeasement.
After turning over our economy to the Communist dictatorship, we keep
talking about how to fix our relationship.
The stark contrast
between America’s idea of diplomacy and China’s idea of diplomacy is
that we want dialogue and they want control. The People’s Republic of
China is not interested in conversations or relationships, they want to
know our bottom lines and anything they can exploit to gain a strategic
advantage. That’s why diplomacy with China will always fail.
Generations
of Chinese Communist officials came of age reading Mao’s quote that,
“politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with
bloodshed.” Americans view diplomacy as a means of bringing nations
together, while China’s Communist Party sees it as a zero-sum game. For
them to win, we must lose. The more we negotiate with China, the more we
lose.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.
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