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Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is "overwhelming" Biden's secret hatred, helplessness and incompetence

2022-08-03T10:23:36.310Z


Perhaps the U.S. President Joe Biden is most dismayed about the unfinished uproar caused by the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (also translated as Pelosi, Polosi) to Taiwan.


Perhaps the U.S. President Joe Biden is most dismayed about the unfinished uproar caused by the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (also translated as Pelosi, Polosi) to Taiwan.

Compared with the Chinese officials and people and international public opinion who can scold Pelosi or criticize rationally, Biden can only keep his feelings in his heart, and he will probably leave it to the world when he writes an autobiography after returning to the field in the future.


Key week to revive popularity missed

When the world's attention is focused on the SPAR19 Boeing military plane that Pelosi was flying, this week just happened to be Biden's long-prepared and rare performance display week.

Last week, the two houses of Congress met a rare multi-party cooperation and passed the $280 billion "Chip and Science Act", including 52 billion to support domestic semiconductor production. Biden is trying to make a big splash this week. This rare US technology industry policy signed into law.

And since a key Senate vote, conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has suddenly turned his decision to support a $433 billion climate, health care, drug price and tax hike bill known as the Inflation Deduction Act ) — Democrats hope to send the largest climate spending grant in U.S. history to the Senate this week for a vote.

If passed, Biden's climate commitments since the election, and even his "Building Back for a Better Future" plan, although not fully achieved, can be regarded as a return to life.

Moreover, as early as July 25, when rumors of Pelosi's "visit to Taiwan" were rampant, after three months of careful study of the details of the operation, Biden had issued an order to let the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) enter by drone. The decision to assassinate Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in the Afghan capital Kabul.

The figure who was regarded as the brain behind the 9-11 terrorist attack was finally killed on July 31, and the precision of the US strike did not hurt the family under the same roof as al-Zawahiri, who made him for Biden. The "Osama bin Laden moment", on the one hand, can show the international community that the United States still has the ability to cross-border counter-terrorism after the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. .

The CIA used a drone, armed with a precision missile that used a set of blades, to kill Zawahiri as he walked out of the terrace.

(AP)

However, Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was overwhelming and completely disrupted Biden's public relations layout, making the third American figure the protagonist of this week's political news, but Biden had to take second place.

After Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, she became the first overseas propagandist of the "Chip and Science Act".

At this moment, more than 60% of Democratic voters believe that there should be a presidential candidate other than Biden in 2024. Biden has even responded to this in person, obviously wanting to restore his popularity.

But this crucial week was completely interrupted by Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

Putting it in your shoes, can Biden not hold a grudge against Pelosi?

The layout of the China Elementary School failed

On the other hand, in the past few months, senior officials from China and the United States have been in contact many times, and Xibai called again. It can be seen that Biden does not want to let Sino-US relations deteriorate significantly.

First, in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Biden not only hopes that China will not directly support Russia militarily and economically, but also hopes that oil transportation insurance can be used as a condition for imposing an oil price cap on Russia to persuade China (and India) to indirectly accept it. This kind of sanctions against Russia - which Finance Minister Janet Yellen had lobbied for Liu He in mid-July.

Second, it is rumored that Biden hopes to remove tariffs on tens of billions of Chinese and American consumer goods to suppress inflationary pressures that people can easily feel. Biden will not be seen as being soft on China and compromising on China.

These small layouts of Biden's Sino-US relations also fell through because of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

On July 28, U.S. President Biden had a phone call with President Xi Jinping, saying that the U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed, and it opposes unilateral changes to the status quo or undermining the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

(AP)

Hateful but helpless

But Biden cannot scold Pelosi publicly or even privately.

First of all, nominally, Congress and the White House are equal and independent departments of power, and the White House really cannot prevent Pelosi's decision to visit Taiwan.

Secondly, there has never been absolutely private communication in American politics. If Biden dares to exert heavy pressure or fierce criticism on Pelosi in private, it is hard to guarantee that Pelosi, who has passed the "do whatever you want" year and is not far from retirement, will send someone to break the news to the media. , so that Biden will end up with the infamy of disrespecting the separation of powers and being weak to China.

Although the outside world has different interpretations of which party first broke Pelosi's plan to visit Taiwan to the Financial Times - it may be Pelosi's "self-directed and self-acted", or it may be that Biden hopes to use public information after the Security considerations to scare Pelosi away - but China's tough stance after the news broke, also made Biden lose the political space to persuade Pelosi.

At the beginning, he also hoped to use words such as the Department of Defense that this was "not a good idea" to open the curve to persuade him to quit, and even sent National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (Jake Sullivan), Defense Secretary (Lloyd Austin) and others to Pelo. West Chen Qing.

But after Pelosi's scheduled visit, both the National Security Council's strategic communications coordinator, John Kirby, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, changed their propaganda tactics and viewed Pelosi's visit as a It is a "normal visit" with precedent, in line with the one-China policy, without changing anything, without supporting Taiwan independence, blaming the Chinese side for the potential military escalation triggered by the incident.

This turn, to a certain extent, can be said that Biden has been hijacked by Pelosi's hawkish diplomacy.

In this regard, Biden also knows that he has nothing to do.

China has only emotions but no strategy

The main reason for Pelosi's ability to "overwhelm the guest" is that Biden has failed to put forward a clear and convincing strategy for China in the more than a year and a half since he took office.

The "investment, alliance, and competition" proposed by Blinken in his China policy speech in May were all repeated, abstract and unspecific, and did not provide a clear path toward China.

The picture shows U.S. Secretary of State Blinken speaking at George Washington University on May 26, 2022.

In his speech, he outlined the Biden administration's China policy.

The event is hosted by the Asia Society.

(AP)

The diplomatic public opinion in Washington has been discussing whether to abandon the "strategic ambiguity" towards Taiwan, and instead seek "strategic clarity", indicating that the Chinese military commander will guard Taiwan, but at the same time, the clear premise of defending Taiwan is that Taiwan abandons its unilateral pursuit of independence.

Congress has also been proposing various specific legislations that are tough on China - for example, the "Chip and Science Act" for funding conditions including TSMC, that is, the subsidized companies cannot increase China's production of chips below 28 nanometers, which is a disguised requirement. TSMC makes a choice between China and the United States.

In contrast, Biden inherited Trump's tariffs and entity list policies, and "gaps" three times, saying that he would defend Taiwan, but he had no systematic and specific policy direction.

A bunch of "Quad Security Dialogue" (Quad), "Australia-UK-U.S. Alliance" (AUKUS), "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework" (IPEF), etc. are laid out, but they are just an "alphabet soup" that is randomly pieced together and lacks specific details.

The only thing that is clear is the tough sentiment towards China.

This has become a political and emotional foundation that Pelosi can use, and it has also created a dilemma that Biden can do nothing about his visit to Taiwan.

Therefore, if it is said that Pelosi's insistent visit to Taiwan is beyond Biden's control, Biden can only secretly hate and helpless for this, and the most fundamental reason is the incompetence of the Biden administration.

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