President Joe Biden suggested China and America should collaborate to tackle “climate change” but did not mention Uyghur human rights abuses or COVID-19 origins with dictator Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Indonesia Monday.
QUICK FACTS:
- President Biden suggested tackling “climate changes,” not the Uyghur genocide, in his opening remarks with China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit on Monday.
- The White House published a script of the conversation between Biden and Jinping, with no mention of Xi’s well-documented genocide of the Muslim-majority people in East Turkistan that has resulted in more than 1,000 concentration camps, horrific torture, and involuntary sterilization.
- Also absent from the conversation was mention of the COVID-19 pandemic, even though multiple reports released by the U.S. State Department have suggested the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.
- Biden said, “the world expects” collaboration between China and America, saying he wished to tackle “global challenges, from climate changes, to food insecurity, and to — for us to be able to work together.”
- “The United States stands ready to do just that – work with you – if that’s what you desire,” Biden added.
- Xi focused on the relationship between China and America, saying “I’m ready to have a candid — as we always did — have a candid and in-depth exchange of views with you on issues of strategic importance in China-U.S. relations and on major global and regional issues.”
REPUBLICANS TO INVESTIGATE CHINA:
- Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised House Republicans will set up a committee to investigate how COVID-19 spread from China.
- “More importantly, we want to find where the origins of Covid began, so it never starts again. How did that happen?” McCarthy said earlier this month.
- The committee will also focus on military and economic threats posed by Beijing as well as look into accusations of intellectual property theft from American companies by the eastern nation.
BACKGROUND:
- The meeting comes after rising energy prices due to Biden’s green agenda, a topic that has been at the forefront of election talking points.
- Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” (BBB) agenda requires an overhaul of U.S. energy, forcing the sector to be more dependent on technologies that come out of China, such as solar panels and electric vehicles (EVs).
- Biden officials admitted his administration would rely on countries like China to “supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles.” They claimed the plans “will be a blow to U.S. miners who had hoped Biden would rely primarily on domestically sourced metals.”
- The President is partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization which the BBB slogan comes from.
- The WEF has publicized an in-depth plan to help China take “an increasingly active role in reshaping the international system of climate change, digital transformation and economic development” and claims the U.S. “won’t be the world’s leading superpower” by 2030.
