China Praises Biden for 'Showing Respect' to Chinese Communist Party
Propaganda outlets hail ‘positive’ call between Democrat and Chinese leader Xi Jinping
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China has praised Joe Biden for "showing respect" to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping during a Wednesday phone call.
State-controlled Chinese media hailed the "positive" call between Hunter Biden's father and CCP General Secretary Xi.
China's propaganda outlets described Biden as "respectful" to the Communist regime.
Two CCP-run newspapers, the Xinhua news agency and the Global Times both highlighted the timing, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, as a gesture of goodwill from the new presidential administration.
Xinhua expressed hope that America under Biden would return to the “right track” of policy favorable to Beijing.
It also criticized President Donald Trump’s tenure for featuring policies designed to contain the influence of the Chinese Communist Party abroad and frequent condemnations of China's human rights atrocities.
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Chinese media coverage of the phone call, the first between the two since Biden was sworn into office, contrasted considerably with American mainstream media, according to Breitbart.
U.S. "news" outlets claim that Biden had “pressured” Xi on issues such as the genocide of the Uyghur people in western Xinjiang or the repression of political dissidents in Hong Kong.
“The Spring Festival is a very important holiday for the Chinese,” Xinhua’s coverage noted.
“The telephone conversation between the two heads of state on the eve of the Lunar New Year marks a new starting point for direct communication, symbolizes goodwill, and conforms to the expectations of the Chinese and Americans, as well as those of the wider global community.”
“Biden said Washington is prepared to have candid and constructive dialogue with China in the spirit of mutual respect and to improve mutual understanding and avoid miscommunication and miscalculation,” Xinhua detailed.
“Those agreements bear positive significance for Beijing and Washington to dispel misunderstandings and engage in normal dialogue.”
“With the inauguration of the Biden administration, returning the China-U.S. relationship to the right track has become a common aspiration of the international community,” the state news agency concluded.
The Global Times in its coverage applauded Biden for a gesture that it noted; “showed respect for President Xi and China.”
The newspaper continued:
The White House release also said at the beginning that Biden shared his greetings and well wishes with the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.
This was widely interpreted as a gesture that Biden showed respect for President Xi and China.
It seems that he was using such goodwill to balance the tough messages the new U.S. administration sent in recent days and various interpretations on those messages.
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An article citing its usual stable of Communist Party “experts” also emphasized Biden’s alleged “goodwill towards the Chinese government.”
While noting that the White House claimed Biden discussed human rights issues with Xi, the Global Times‘ experts did not consider this a threat to the regime, or an indication that it should change its behavior in any way.
Biden, they argued, had no choice but to follow “U.S. leaders’ old track of pressuring China, but unlike his predecessor, Biden is willing to bring those divergences under control through dialogue, instead of unilaterally slapping sanctions on China.”
The newspaper also celebrated reports that Biden had undone recent policies implemented under Trump that limited the infiltration of the American academic system by the Communist Party’s “Confucius Institutes.”
The Chinese Communist Party promotes Confucius Institutes within foreign universities, claiming they provide services to students like Mandarin language and Chinese cultural studies.
