Biden's FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE ( overview)

 

As Confused as Joe Biden was ,
his first press conference a big sleeper.
The Press was soft when they
should have been asking 
hard questions .

We knew this was going to happen , the first expected press conference . (1)>>I am starting to fee sorry for President Joe Biden . And of course, it's just sad to see the moments where his age betrays him. He's just too old for this and it makes me sad to see him trying to hold it together and put himself in all this stress when he should just be at home with his grandkids and his dogs.Interesting how the covid-19 Doom and Gloom messaging is now suddenly so hopeful. It's actually hard to say if he's taking credit for these things, which is kind of refreshing. Trump would certainly be taking too much credit  The recent press conference was nothing but a PR move because he was under pressure to have one.  (1.2)>>Stonewalled for 65 days by President Biden, reporters decided their first opportunity to question him should be used to let him monologue on his favorite topics. The  (2)>>boiling point was the Border Crisis .  (2.1)>>The Press threw soft balls at  Biden . Nobody ever claimed Biden was a great speaker. Biden seemed a bit confused , he was grilled about the crisis regarding the undocumented. We know Trump was always light on substance, but he would pull definitive statements from nowhere, blowing hot air. But Biden was supposed to be a "return to the science" kind of guy, having plans for everything. He mostly just made half-true statements.   It was obvious that he  had a problem on how to stop people from Central America from leaving , answering that question from a reporter why these people are coming he said "  (3)>> I am a nice guy that's why" .The border thing is confusing some reporters who didn't seem to get the memo.  Most of the press couldn’t even say President Donald Trump’s name. They called him “your predecessor.” One reporter, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, asked a question about the border premised on the idea that “you’re a nice guy.” The questions for the president were meek and vague, failing to extract any specific information about policies or solutions to the myriad problems faced by the administration. The discussion of the border that dominated  (4)>>the press conference was pure malarkey. Biden took no responsibility, pretending it was a perennial problem. The other piece to that sentiment is that the media was so polite and easy on him, which is a very stark contrast to Trump. That might be the most disturbing part for me. It really shows that our press corps is not comprised of journalists at all. The natural order of politics is that politicians tout their successes as much as they can, and reporters remind them of their failures. Under Trump, we had extra inflated both sides of that. (5)>>Under Biden, we have "taking credit" reduced to almost reasonable levels, but the reporters aren't doing anything to press him on failures...I do believe that media bias became significantly more surfaced in contact with Trump. There was a level of exposure unrealized before. There was also a measure of the pugilism Trump brought to the media that also got countered with more pointed questioning. I see it as a mix of the bias of left leaning media, their relief at change in tone, and the interviewee not being hostel to them. President Biden should be getting and answering every tough question out there. (6)>>The White House muscled through the $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package with just Democratic support, though doing so required relying on a procedural maneuver called reconciliation, which allows the Senate to pass budget-related bills with a bare majority. Many of his remaining goals can’t pass that way, though. Outside of NBC's Kristen Welker and ABC's Cecilia Vega regarding the border crisis, reporters were largely hospitable as opposed to hostile, which was all the rage (so to speak) during press conferences under the previous administration. Overall, President Trump was interrupted 16 times during his first press conference in 2017, while Biden was interrupted only four times despite calling on far fewer reporters than his predecessor did in the same situation. There were other whoppers, per multiple fact-checks, but you get the idea: Biden was able to say whatever he wanted with almost no push back. 

THE QUESTION OF JOE BIDEN'S HEALTH.

Just where was the Secret Service 
when Pres. Biden almost 
fell ? This is vary strange 
my readers .

Here is a disturbing subject that many of us should have concerns , it might effect the future of this nation. ALL I CAN SAY we need to brace our selves for  (7)>>troubling news ahead. Not since the election.There should be some "concerns" about Joe Biden's health . FORGIVE ME HERE . President Joe Biden is suffering , it pains me that he's a laughing stock for media punches . His falling twice while going up the stairs while trying to get on board Air Force One is troubling . On March 19, 2021, a video went viral on social media that supposedly showed U.S. President Joe Biden slipping and falling while ascending the stairs of Air Force One. Believe me this video of Biden falling is disturbing  on a number of factors . First notice , he is not supposed to be alone ,  (8)>>OK  where are the Secret Service ? walking with him up those stairs ? Why didn't those young guards run up and help him the first , second and third time he stumbled? President Biden could have sustained a serious injury . No body in the MSM media is making mention of this . Biden eventually got up and made the rest of the journey to the cabin, but are we all going to pretend that we weren’t feeling the urge to rush to his side like a Boy Scout offering his arm to an elderly woman crossing the street? That elderly man could have really hurt himself if he had rolled down. Second, Hear me out. How does expressing a valid concern for the mental and physical health of POTUS make someone a Trump supporter?Biden's gaffes are far too common and more recurrent than ever. Remember his saying  (9)>>"President Kamala"? It's obvious in Biden's Press conference  that his mental decline , his own strain , tiredness , stamina are worrisome .Is no one in the major news media concerned?It would be easier to overlook the incident if it didn’t come in addition to a slew of other episodes with Biden. But the seriousness of Biden's health could create a national emergency. I think we have to PREPARE . Hopefully we should be praying for him regardless of his health, even if you did not vote for the man  . Our nation is at stake , but we should hope for at least the better for our country .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>I am starting to fee sorry for President Joe Biden .The man is cognitively impaired. Anyway you parse it, from his frequent forgetfulness, his slurred words, his glassy stare, his need for binders and aides by his side to remind him what he’s talking about. He has some form of dementia. As of last week, Biden had publicly spoken about 116,000 words and spent 12 hours on camera as president, Bill Frischling, the founder of Factba.se, a data-analytics firm, told. I'm not on the 'dementia bandwagon, but his speeches are cringeworthy. I understand he has had issues with that his whole life, so not sure he can improve much at this point. At least there is someone humble in office. Biden: "I came to the Senate 120 years ago" I think it's more likely that he was just reading his script, got to the joke someone wrote for him, but didn't realise it was a joke and just kept reading on along his script.(1.2)>>Stonewalled for 65 days by President Biden.  The fact there there had not been a press conference for 65 days can be so unusual. Biden’s first official press conference, that a president has avoided the media event for that long. While many saw it as a solid first press conference, just as many were as quick to call out the president, who at times seemed to stumble and loose his train of thought. Biden’s press conference did not feature a single question about the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden has shown no such willingness to be accessible, preferring to take one or maybe two shouted questions at his public events. The seven-week stretch is the longest a new president has gone without meeting the press in the past 100 years, dating to when Calvin Coolidge, a man known as “Silent Cal,” was president, according to research by the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  (2)>>boiling point was the Border Crisis .Now there's 17,000 children in custody and some for more than 10 days, 72 hrs is the max hold time by law. One facility is at 1600% capacity. The children get 1 shower a week and definitely a Covid Super Spreader since 10% test positive. 5,000 illegals a day are coming that will increase as the weather gets better. Where is Congress on an immigration policy that will address the current crisis? What is the right way to handle what’s happening at the border? And can anything be done about what’s behind the surge of people migrating to the U.S.?From its earliest weeks in office, the Biden administration has been playing catch up, scrambling to stem a growing immigration crisis on the US southern border, where there are now more than 14,000 unaccompanied children in US custody, officials say.Republicans have assailed Biden's handling of the situation, blaming his early actions to overturn some of the Trump administration's draconian border enforcement policies for inducing what is shaping up to be a historic surge of migrants to the border."These are all self-inflicted wounds," a Homeland Security official said.(2.1)>>The Press threw soft balls at  Biden . Trump has called President Joe Biden's press conference on Thursday "very sad" and accused the media of fielding softball questions at his successor.The former president told Fox News' The Ingraham Angle that reporters had asked "strange questions" and described the briefing as "ridiculous." He claimed to have never seen anything like it during his time in office.The media briefing was Biden's first since taking office 65 days earlier and was restricted to just 25 reporters. (3)>>"  I am a nice guy that's why".  Biden dismissed as fallacy the notion that migrants are pouring toward our southern border from Mexico and Central America because they heard he is “a nice guy” compared to Trump. “I guess I should be flattered,” he said, but seasonal imperatives are at work; traveling in winter is safer than in summer.Biden pushed back against claims his “nice guy” approach to immigration is bringing migrants to the southern border, saying economic drivers and seasonal patterns are the main drivers. "I'd like to think it's because I'm a nice guy, but it's not," Biden said at his first press conference as president.“The truth of the matter is, nothing has changed,” he said.  (4)>>the press conference was pure malarkey. Or you can look up the difference in NYT headlines when Biden fell on the stairs vs. when Trump walked slow down a ramp. CNN literally ran a chiron about "Is Trump afraid of stairs?" You can look at headline differences when Trump and Biden used the exact same migrant overflow facilities. Or should I call it kids in cages? Dude, this isn't a "bad relationship" with the press. This is a result of the press corps being overwhelmingly Democrat and progressive. (5)>>Under Biden, we have "taking credit". In his first prime-time address  night, Biden praised his administration for taking a “war footing” when it comes to combating the virus, assuring that every American will be eligible for a vaccine starting May 1.Pundits like Fox News host Sean Hannity took aim at Biden for trying “to take credit for everything that Donald Trump did on COVID-19,” noting that three vaccines were already in development by the time Biden took office. “There were already a million vaccines being administered into people’s arms every single day when Biden was sworn in, 36 million doses had already been distributed,” Hannity said. Mr. Biden is ordering all states to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccines by May 1, framing it as a prelude to Independence Day soirees that will provide a sense of normalcy. It is a notable shift, in that he's moving beyond gripes about his predecessor and placing bets — President Joe Biden and his top aides have declined to give the Trump administration credit on the nation's COVID-19 vaccine rollout while relying heavily on a system established by their predecessors. The public slight appears to have irked the former president, along with his retired aides who told ABC News they are baffled at the political jabs in what was supposed to be a nonpartisan effort to vaccinate America. (6)>>The White House muscled through the $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package .  In a recent analysis, was found that the $1.9 trillion plan could overshoot the economic output gap two or three times over. We recently suggested principles that the next COVID package should be tailored to the needs of the economy, targeted thoughtfully, and not cut off too early. It makes little sense to pass a large relief package and still leave a payment cliff for unemployed workers in August. The Senate approved the relief plan on Saturday after roughly 24 hours of debate. The bill includes $1,400 stimulus checks for millions of Americans, as well as an additional $300-per-week in unemployment payments until early September.Democrats voted to adopt the bill without any Republican support after a more than 24-hour, around-the-clock session, though it will now fall to the House to consider the sweeping package once again before it can become law and any of the aid can be dispersed.The Senate’s passage of the measure marked an early win for Biden and his congressional Democratic allies, who had promised in the wake of the 2020 presidential election to authorize a robust package of new coronavirus aid – including another round of one-time checks for families – as one of their first acts.(7)>>troubling news ahead. Not since the election.  I'm not saying the election was a big cheat, but all this shit, him not having press conferences or only letting in handpicked reporters, wire fences still up, still having troops holed up; it doesn't look good. Let's say it was a super tight election, I don't think it would still look like this. And we still haven't seen the source code for the voting machines. Our entire system of voting has been accused of being hacked, and they still won't release the source code. I guess we'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for the best next election.At 78, he is older even than the older president to leave office, Ronald Reagan, who was still 77 (for a few days) at the end of his second term. That is almost two years older than the current life expectancy for a US-born male, which is 76.3 years (the lowest of all wealthy countries) and 14 years older than the male life expectancy of an American man born in 1942.Biden is healthy and vaccinated but given his age, it’s responsible to ask what happens if he gets ill while in office or, worse, dies. (8)>>OK  where are the Secret Service ?👉Keeping President  Joe Biden safe is the job of the United States Secret Service. The slip up on the stairs with NO Service agents I think is disturbing . Biden could have died right there . the agency responsible for protecting him and his immediate family no matter where they are in the world. Secret Service agents will have planned security arrangements down to the last detail, even to ensuring there are adequate supplies of blood on hand for the president in case something goes wrong. The roads the president will use will have been carefully sanitized, emergency escape routes planned, threat scenarios rehearsed: nothing is left to chance. The Secret Service also has to guard those who must be with the president at all times, among them, a military aide carrying the 20-kilogram, Zero Halliburton metal briefcase, clad in a black leather jacket, which carries the launch codes for the United States’ nuclear missiles. An armed Secret Service agent even accompanies the president to the restroom, or into any other situation where he might want a little bit of privacy, and, by law. (9)>>"President Kamala"?  The worst case scenario is Kamala becomes President . While Joe Biden has a lot of  political, governmental experience . Kamala has ZERO , she is a airhead of sorts , its hard to take her serious at times . Here career as a woman was least qualified for the VP position among the women Democrats that Biden could have picked over her.  Now here is things get weird. I think Joe picked Kamala because maybe she fit the character of Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, a young woman destined to become President of the United States.. ??? If any superhero was destined for political office, it's Kamala Khan. The idea of Kamala taking political office, then, seems entirely natural right ???. [ see this eerie resemblance to the Real Kamala Harris  👉👉 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kamala_Khan_(Earth-616) ] NOW If Vice President Harris is saying the same things Senator Harris said back when she was representing California, then that last person in the room must be disagreeing with Biden a lot lately. Or should be, if she’s holding true to her past positions. No evidence exists of such a plan. But day after day, his backers portray Harris, the first woman of color to run on a major party’s presidential ticket, as a dangerous radical ready to benefit from a Nancy Pelosi plot to sideline Bid. “Pelosi’s plan: Remove Biden if Elected and Install Kamala,”👉 says a  video 👈from the Trump campaign. “Pelosi’s plan: Help Kamala Remove Biden from office.”  But what her presidency will look like has been a matter of some debate. Some have spent time perseverating over Harris’ past, too, which includes actions in the criminal justice arena that make some progressives deeply uncomfortable. Many of those same people fear that a future under Senator Harris will be a conservative future.— Instead of what he can do to change the future, and the one choice he has made has been monumentally important.

The rather Strange meeting between China and the U.S.

The rather Strange meeting between China 

and the U.S. started off 

on a slippery slope .

Question is , Is China right ?

The Alaska  US -China summit barely made to the American media . What make this extremely odd is the exact location for a  (1)>>summit = Alaska ?. So what is going on underneath it ?.This got my attention about this summit as why are we having one like this with China ,  (1.2)>>not RUSSIA? I will try to give my thoughts on this .  Perhaps the goal of the Biden administration was not to reach major agreements with China but to show domestically and internationally how tough it would deal with China. The sanctions of Chinese ranking officials and the close contacts with her allies before the meeting had already poisoned the atmosphere of the meeting that China had placed her hope for improved relations with the U.S. There are issues that China would never compromise regarding Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xingjiang, and South China sea island  At the invitation of the United States, top Chinese diplomats and other delegates travelling with them, the first foreign delegation to visit the US since the inauguration of new US President Joe Biden, arrived at Anchorage, Alaska, one of the coldest places on US soil with a freezing temperature of minus 19 degrees Celsius, for the upcoming meeting. President Biden  said he’s “proud” of Secretary of State Tony Blinken after the top diplomat sat through an anti-American tirade from Chinese officials at a summit in Alaska. Personally we have to weigh in on what , why this summit is going on . II am surprised by Blinken’s remarks, the extreme hostility on the American side .It's s not about trade as much the U.S. going after China for human rights abuses.  (2)>>The Biden administration has taken a somber approach toward Beijing, whose communist government they view as America’s top geopolitical rival. To date, the administration hasn't moved to roll back the sanctions and tariffs imposed by Trump, but it has also said it wants to work with China on common challenges, like climate change. . (3)>>China told the US to get its own House in order before telling them to address theirs.Early accounts from reporters at the scene, which included translators, had Chinese officials as saying that Black people are being “slaughtered” in the United States. But an official transcript sent out later by the State Department did not include such a barbed claim from the Chinese delegation, which did, however, point to the Black Lives Matter movement’s emergence as illustrative of “deep-seated“ human rights problems in America. REMEMBER It's been One year later that there were non proven accusations that  (4)>>Covid-19 "leaked" from a bio-lab in Wuhan . Former President Trump's harsh anti- China rhetoric. +The atmosphere was expected to be tense because days earlier the U.S. had slapped sanctions on China for Beijing's crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong. But the contentious on-camera exchanges that followed were a clear departure from the light pleasantries traditionally offered before diplomatic discussions. China spent almost accusing the U.S. of meddling , interference . China’s  (5)>>Yang Jiechi replied with a lengthy lecture against the U.S. that went on for so long the subsequent translation took 17 minutes. According to a senior official, there had been an agreement that each side would speak for two minutes at a photo opportunity before the session began.He added, "And the United States has United States-style democracy. And China has Chinese-style democracy. It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world, to evaluate how the United States has done in advancing its own democracy in China's case, after decades of reform and opening up, we have come a long way in various fields."ALSO TO NOTE THAT 👉(6)>>Zheng Yongnian, the Dean of the Advanced Institute of Global and Contemporary China Studies, a Shenzhen-based think tank, has said that the Chinese government should utilise every opportunity to mend ties with the US, South China Morning Post has reported. "The good old days are over... the Cold War hawks in the US have been in a highly mobilised state for several years, and they will not disappear overnight," Mr Zheng said in an interview on the sidelines of the Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou recently.Mr Zheng, who attended a symposium hosted by President Xi Jinping in August to offer advice on China's long-term strategy, said there was now a bipartisan consensus in the US on containing China.Mr Zheng said President-elect Joe Biden might take advantage of the public resentment towards China after he entered the White House. "American society is torn apart. I don't think Biden can do anything about it," Mr Zheng said.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>summit = Alaska ? It's utterly strange that a summit would be held  

in Anchorage

, where March temperatures even by noon are barely above freezing – just about right for the new cold war. The Biden administration should keep this in mind; its representatives should stay humble. Both nuclear powers must begin to understand that they are increasingly perceived as playing with the lives of billions beyond their borders – and beyond the boundaries of their legitimate national interests, even as capacious as they legitimately are. China said that was America is in decline , it has to face its own problems on race . The extraordinary rancor aired by China’s top diplomats in Alaska reflected a newly combative and unapologetic China, one increasingly unbowed by undiplomatic pressure from American presidential administrations.China today feels far more assured in its ability to challenge the United States and push for its own vision of international cooperation. It is a confidence embraced by China’s leader since 2012, Xi Jinping, who has used the phrase, “the East is rising, and the West is declining.”(1.2)>>not RUSSIA?. It seems the eagerness of the Biden Administration to restore relations with China, bypassing Russia is some what of a fluke . Russia is watching what went between the US and China , am sure . Whatever you think of Biden's assertion during an ABC News interview that Russia's President Putin is "a killer" — and whether or not you think the label might apply to Biden, given his pro-war record — the existential imperative of U.S.-Russian relations is to avert a nuclear war. Biden's claim during the same interview that Putin does not have "a soul" indicates that much of the new president's foreign-policy thinking is stuck in a Cold War rut.Let's face it: Biden is playing to the domestic anti-Russia gallery in the U.S. media and "defense" establishment, while making a dangerous mockery of his own claims to be a champion of diplomatic approaches to foreign affairs. Russia and China are both allies , this is dangerous to American foreign policy . The US has taken hostile actions against China , Russia with a barrage of unjustified sanctions . Which brought both Russia and China to form partnerships that overwhelmed American dominance . (2)>>The Biden administration has taken a somber approach toward Beijing.  Biden used his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief 😂 to announce the formation of a new Defense Department China Task Force, charged with reexamining the U.S. approach in areas from strategy and force posture to technology and intelligence. In contrast, Biden’s policy advisers sought to portray a candidate with a more somber approach, recognizing that the U.S. and Chinese economies are too closely intertwined to “fully decouple” but that pushback against Beijing was needed.America’s relationship with China will be the most complex and important aspect of foreign policy for the next generation. China is the largest trading nation, the second largest economy, and with a population four times larger than that of the United States, it only has to grow moderately to surpass U.S. GDP by 2035 or 2040. Without significant concessions by the Chinese government, which seem unlikely, the fundamental tensions between the two countries will fester. They could even become more pronounced — over trade, tech, Taiwan and other issues. (3)>>China told the US to get its own House in order before telling them to address theirs. China's message was vary clear at the Alaska summit . It wants to the US to stay out of its own affairs . I agree with China in regards to how America has conducted its own foreign policy , the real reality its been a mess since the last Bush Gulf war .  Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi took aim at each other’s country’s policies at the start of two days of talks in Alaska.   Yang, meanwhile, warned the United States to back off and accused it of hypocrisy. He said the United States uses its financial and military might to bully other countries. He also said America had its own long history of human rights problems and foolish actions abroad. “We do not believe in invading through the use of force, or to topple other regimes through various means, or to massacre the people of other countries, because all of those would only cause turmoil and instability in this world,” Yang said.(4)>>Covid-19 "leaked" from a bio-lab in Wuhan .  Prior to the Covid -19 pandemic . Relations between China , U.S. 2018 , were a bit rosy , not to the level of decline as of now. Hostilities between China , and America started to erode when Trump , his administration had accused China of leaking the virus deliberately . I pretty much believed that there has to have been an intentional motive behind this virus . If China or some terrorist group got a hold of  a dangerous corona virus , it appears that America was the intended target . This theory opens up a can worms why the American government was unable to stop the spread , so much of it was wrapped up in politics to get rid of Trump .With no plan, President Trump started a trade war with China that deeply hurt millions of Americans. He bragged about a “phase 1 deal” this year, but China hasn’t lived up to Trump’s promises, and even Trump gave up on securing a permanent “phase 2” negotiation. In short, China is winning his trade war, and Trump is letting them.   FULL YANG TRANSCRIPT :  (5)>>Yang Jiechi replied with a lengthy lecture DIRECTOR YANG:  (Via interpreter) Secretary Blinken and Mr. Sullivan, the State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and I have come to Anchorage, the United States to have this strategic dialogue with the United States.  We hope that this dialogue will be a sincere and candid one.  Both China and the United States are major countries in the world, and together we shoulder important responsibilities to the peace, stability, and development of the world and the region.  In China, we have just concluded the Lianghui, or the two sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.  During the sessions, we adopted the outline for the 14th five-year economic and social development plan and the long-range objectives through the year 2035.For China, we are now in a historic year where we will move from finishing the first centenary goal to the second centenary goal, and by the year 2035 China will surely achieve basic modernization.  And by the year 2050, China will achieve full modernization.  China has made decisive achievements and important strategic gains in fighting COVID-19, and we have achieved a full victory in ending absolute poverty in China.  China’s per capita GDP is only one-fifth of that of the United States, but we have managed to end absolute poverty for all people in China.  And we hope that other countries, especially the advanced countries, will make similar efforts in this regard.  And China has also made historic achievements in building the country into a moderately prosperous one in all respects.  The Chinese people are wholly rallying around the Communist Party of China.  Our values are the same as the common values of humanity.  Those are: peace, development, fairness, justice, freedom, and democracy.What China and the international community follow or uphold is the United Nations-centered international system and the international order underpinned by international law, not what is advocated by a small number of countries of the so-called “rules-based” international order.  And the United States has its style – United States-style democracy – and China has the Chinese-style democracy.  It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world to evaluate how the United States has done in advancing its own democracy.  In China’s case, after decades of reform and opening up, we have come a long way in various fields.  In particular, we have engaged in tireless efforts to contribute to the peace and development of the world, and to upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.The wars in this world are launched by some other countries, which have resulted in massive casualties.  But for China, what we have asked for, for other countries, is to follow a path of peaceful development, and this is the purpose of our foreign policy.  We do not believe in invading through the use of force, or to topple other regimes through various means, or to massacre the people of other countries, because all of those would only cause turmoil and instability in this world.  And at the end of the day, all of those would not serve the United States well.So we believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world.  Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States, and they have various views regarding the Government of the United States.  In China, according to opinion polls, the leaders of China have the wide support of the Chinese people.  So no attempt to – the opinion polls conducted in the United States show that the leaders of China have the support of the Chinese people.  No attempt to smear China’s social system would get anywhere.  Facts have shown that such practices would only lead the Chinese people to rally more closely around the Communist Party of China and work steadily towards the goals that we have set for ourselves.In 1952, China adopted its first five-year development plan, and now we are into the first year of the 14th five-year development plan.  We will continue along this path, step by step.  China’s development is not just about delivering benefits for the people of China, but also about contributing to the development of the world in the 21st century.  China and the United States are both major countries and both shoulder important responsibilities.  We must both contribute to the peace, stability, and development of the world in areas such as COVID-19, restoring economic activities in the world, and responding to climate change.  There are many things that we can do together and where our interests converge.So what we need to do is to abandon the Cold War mentality and the zero-sum game approach.  We must change the way we think and make sure that in this century, the 21st century, countries big or small, particularly the big countries, should come united together to contribute to the future of humanity and build a community with a shared future for humankind.  It’s also important for all of us to come together to build a new type of international relations, ensuring fairness, justice, and mutual respect.  And on some regional issues, I think the problem is that the United States has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony, and this has created obstacles for normal trade activities, and the United States has also been persuading some countries to launch attacks on China.And as for China, we believe and we have handled import- and export-related issues according to scientific and technological standards.  Secretary Blinken, you said you just came back from Japan and the ROK.  Those two countries are China’s second and the third largest trading partners.  ASEAN has now become China’s largest trading partner, overtaking the European Union and the United States.  So we do hope that the United States will develop sound relations with all countries in the Asia-Pacific.  We should have many mutual friends.  This is the right way forward in the 21st century.On the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden had a phone conversation.  The two presidents agreed to step up communication, manage differences, and expand cooperation between our two countries.  We are having this dialogue today to follow up on the common understanding of the two presidents reached during their phone conversation.  And having this dialogue is, in fact, a decision made by the two presidents.  So for the people of the two countries and the world, they’re hoping to see practical outcomes coming out of our dialogue.  And with Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan, they are an inalienable part of China’s territory.  China is firmly opposed to U.S. interference in China’s internal affairs.  We have expressed our staunch opposition to such interference and we will take firm actions in response.On human rights, we hope that the United States will do better on human rights.  China has made steady progress in human rights and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well.  The United States has also said that countries can’t rely on force in today’s world to resolve the challenges we face.  And it is a failure to use various means to topple the so-called “authoritarian” states.  And the challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated.  They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter.  It did not come up only recently.  So we do hope that for our two countries, it’s important that we manage our respective affairs well instead of deflecting the blame on somebody else in this world.And for China, we will manage our own affairs well, and we hope to deliver a better life for our 1.4 billion Chinese people.  This is the goal of China’s diplomacy.  And also, we will make our contribution to the peace and stability of the world.  Since breaking the ice between our two countries in our engagement several decades ago, China and the United States have achieved a lot together.  This is the result of the concerted efforts of the people with vision of both countries, and this past is a part of our achievements.  Although so much has changed in this world, it is important that our two countries think about how we can work together and expand our cooperation under the new circumstances. If there is competition between our two countries, I think the competition focuses on the economic aspect, and in this area, as I have said just now, for frictions in our economic engagement, it is important to respond to them in a rational way and seek win-win results.  And China-U.S. trade has already achieved a lot, and we should do even better.  The overwhelming majority of American businesses in China have said that China’s business environment is good and nobody has forced them to stay in China.  They see a profit coming from their presence in China and they see immense opportunities in China.  That’s why they are staying in China.  And I believe that for our two countries, under the new circumstances, we need to enhance communication, properly manage our differences, and expand our cooperation instead of engaging in confrontation.But between our two countries we’ve had confrontation in the past, and the result did not serve the United States well.  What did the United States gain from that confrontation?  I didn’t see any, and the only result was damages done to United States.  And China will pull through and has pulled through such confrontation.So the way we see the relationship with the United States is as President Xi Jinping has said – that is, we hope to see no confrontation, no conflict, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation with the United States.  And actually, during the phone call between the presidents, President Biden himself also talked about the importance of having no conflict or confrontation between our two countries.  So at our level, I think it’s vital that we do everything we can to fully and faithfully follow up and implement the understandings reached between our two presidents and bring back the China-U.S. relatiDIRECTOR YANG:  (Via interpreter) Secretary Blinken and Mr. Sullivan, the State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and I have come to Anchorage, the United States to have this strategic dialogue with the United States.  We hope that this dialogue will be a sincere and candid one.  Both China and the United States are major countries in the world, and together we shoulder important responsibilities to the peace, stability, and development of the world and the region.  In China, we have just concluded the Lianghui, or the two sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.  During the sessions, we adopted the outline for the 14th five-year economic and social development plan and the long-range objectives through the year 2035. For China, we are now in a historic year where we will move from finishing the first centenary goal to the second centenary goal, and by the year 2035 China will surely achieve basic modernization.  And by the year 2050, China will achieve full modernization.  China has made decisive achievements and important strategic gains in fighting COVID-19, and we have achieved a full victory in ending absolute poverty in China.  China’s per capita GDP is only one-fifth of that of the United States, but we have managed to end absolute poverty for all people in China.  And we hope that other countries, especially the advanced countries, will make similar efforts in this regard.  And China has also made historic achievements in building the country into a moderately prosperous one in all respects.  The Chinese people are wholly rallying around the Communist Party of China.  Our values are the same as the common values of humanity.  Those are: peace, development, fairness, justice, freedom, and democracy. What China and the international community follow or uphold is the United Nations-centered international system and the international order underpinned by international law, not what is advocated by a small number of countries of the so-called “rules-based” international order.  And the United States has its style – United States-style democracy – and China has the Chinese-style democracy.  It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world to evaluate how the United States has done in advancing its own democracy.  In China’s case, after decades of reform and opening States up, we have come a long way in various fields.  In particular, we have engaged in tireless efforts to contribute to the peace and development of the world, and to upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.The wars in this world are launched by some other countries, which have resulted in massive casualties.  But for China, what we have asked for, for other countries, is to follow a path of peaceful development, and this is the purpose of our foreign policy.  We do not believe in invading through the use of force, or to topple other regimes through various means, or to massacre the people of other countries, because all of those would only cause turmoil and instability in this world.  And at the end of the day, all of those would not serve the United States well.So we believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world.  Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States, and they have various views regarding the Government of the United States.  In China, according to opinion polls, the leaders of China have the wide support of the Chinese people.  So no attempt to – the opinion polls conducted in the United States show that the leaders of China have the support of the Chinese people.  No attempt to smear China’s social system would get anywhere.  Facts have shown that such practices would only lead the Chinese people to rally more closely around the Communist Party of China and work steadily towards the goals that we have set for ourselves.In 1952, China adopted its first five-year development plan, and now we are into the first year of the 14th five-year development plan.  We will continue along this path, step by step.  China’s development is not just about delivering benefits for the people of China, but also about contributing to the development of the world in the 21st century.  China and the United States are both major countries and both shoulder important responsibilities.  We must both contribute to the peace, stability, and development of the world in areas such as COVID-19, restoring economic activities in the world, and responding to climate change.  There are many things that we can do together and where our interests converge.So what we need to do is to abandon the Cold War mentality and the zero-sum game approach.  We must change the way we think and make sure that in this century, the 21st century, countries big or small, particularly the big countries, should come united together to contribute to the future of humanity and build a community with a shared future for humankind.  It’s also important for all of us to come together to build a new type of international relations, ensuring fairness, justice, and mutual respect.  And on some regional issues, I think the problem is that the United States has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony, and this has created obstacles for normal trade activities, and the United States has also been persuading some countries to launch attacks on China.And as for China, we believe and we have handled import- and export-related issues according to scientific and technological standards.  Secretary Blinken, you said you just came back from Japan and the ROK.  Those two countries DIRECTOR YANG:  (Via interpreter) Secretary Blinken and Mr. Sullivan, the State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and I have come to Anchorage, the United States to have this strategic dialogue with the United States.  We hope that this dialogue will be a sincere and candid one.  Both China and the United States are major countries in the world, and together we shoulder important responsibilities to the peace, stability, and development of the world and the region.  In China, we have just concluded the Lianghui, or the two sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.  During the sessions, we adopted the outline for the 14th five-year economic and social development plan and the long-range objectives through the year 2035.For China, we are now in a historic year where we will move from finishing the first centenary goal to the second centenary goal, and by the year 2035 China will surely achieve basic modernization.  And by the year 2050, China will achieve full modernization.  China has made decisive achievements and important strategic gains in fighting COVID-19, and we have achieved a full victory in ending absolute poverty in China.  China’s per capita GDP is only one-fifth of that of the United States, but we have managed to end absolute poverty for all people in China.  And we hope that other countries, especially the advanced countries, will make similar efforts in this regard.  And China has also made historic achievements in building the country into a moderately prosperous one in all respects.  The Chinese people are wholly rallying around the Communist Party of China.  Our values are the same as the common values of humanity.  Those are: peace, development, fairness, justice, freedom, and democracy.What China and the international community follow or uphold is the United Nations-centered international system and the international order underpinned by international law, not what is advocated by a small number of countries of the so-called “rules-based” international order.  And the United States has its style – United States-style democracy – and China has the Chinese-style democracy.  It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world to evaluate how the United States has done in advancing its own democracy.  In China’s case, after decades of reform and opening up, we have come a long way in various fields.  In particular, we have engaged in tireless efforts to contribute to the peace and development of the world, and to upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.The wars in this world are launched by some other countries, which have resulted in massive casualties.  But for China, what we have asked for, for other countries, is to follow a path of peaceful development, and this is the purpose of our foreign policy.  We do not believe in invading through the use of force, or to topple other regimes through various means, or to massacre the people of other countries, because all of those would only cause turmoil and instability in this world.  And at the end of the day, all of those would not serve the United States well.So we believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world.  Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States, and they have various views regarding the Government of the United States.  In China, according to opinion polls, the leaders of China have the wide support of the Chinese people.  So no attempt to – the opinion polls conducted in the United States show that the leaders of China have the support of the Chinese people.  No attempt to smear China’s social system would get anywhere.  Facts have shown that such practices would only lead the Chinese people to rally more closely around the Communist Party of China and work steadily towards the goals that we have set for ourselves In 1952, China adopted its first five-year development plan, and now we are into the first year of the 14th five-year development plan.  We will continue along this path, step by step.  China’s development is not just about delivering benefits for the people of China, but also about contributing to the development of the world in the 21st century.  China and the United States are both major countries and both shoulder important responsibilities.  We must both contribute to the peace, stability, and development of the world in areas such as COVID-19, restoring economic activities in the world, and responding to climate change.  There are many things that we can do together and where our interests converge.So what we need to do is to abandon the Cold War mentality and the zero-sum game approach.  We must change the way we think and make sure that in this century, the 21st century, countries big or small, particularly the big countries, should come united together to contribute to the future of humanity and build a community with a shared future for humankind.  It’s also important for all of us to come together to build a new type of international relations, ensuring fairness, justice, and mutual respect.  And on some regional issues, I think the problem is that the United States has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony, and this has created obstacles for normal trade activities, and the United States has also been persuading some countries to launch attacks on China.And as for China, we believe and we have handled import- and export-related issues according to scientific and technological standards.  Secretary Blinken, you said you just came back from Japan and the ROK.  Those two countries are China’s second and the third largest trading partners.  ASEAN has now become China’s largest trading partner, overtaking the European Union and the United States.  So we do hope that the United States will develop sound relations with all countries in the Asia-Pacific.  We should have many mutual friends.  This is the right way forward in the 21st centuryOn the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden had a phone conversation.  The two presidents agreed to step up communication, manage differences, and expand cooperation between our two countries.  We are having this dialogue today to follow up on the common understanding of the two presidents reached during their phone conversation.  And having this dialogue is, in fact, a decision made by the two presidents.  So for the people of the two countries and the world, they’re hoping to see practical outcomes coming out of our dialogue.  And with Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan, they are an inalienable part of China’s territory.  China is firmly opposed to U.S. interference in China’s internal affairs.  We have expressed our staunch opposition to such interference and we will take firm actions in response.On human rights, we hope that the United States will do better on human rights.  China has made steady progress in human rights and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well.  The United States has also said that countries can’t rely on force in today’s world to resolve the challenges we face.  And it is a failure to use various means to topple the so-called “authoritarian” states.  And the challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated.  They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter.  It did not come up only recently.  So we do hope that for our two countries, it’s important that we manage our respective affairs well instead of deflecting the blame on somebody else in this world.And for China, we will manage our own affairs well, and we hope to deliver a better life for our 1.4 billion Chinese people.  This is the goal of China’s diplomacy.  And also, we will make our contribution to the peace and stability of the world.  Since breaking the ice between our two countries in our engagement several decades ago, China and the United States have achieved a lot together.  This is the result of the concerted efforts of the people with vision of both countries, and this past is a part of our achievements.  Although so much has changed in this world, it is important that our two countries think about how we can work together and expand our cooperation under the new circumstances. If there is competition between our two countries, I think the competition focuses on the economic aspect, and in this area, as I have said just now, for frictions in our economic engagement, it is important to respond to them in a rational way and seek win-win results.  And China-U.S. trade has already achieved a lot, and we should do even better.  The overwhelming majority of American businesses in China have said that China’s business environment is good and nobody has forced them to stay in China.  They see a profit coming from their presence in China and they see immense opportunities in China.  That’s why they are staying in China.  And I believe that for our two countries, under the new circumstances, we need to enhance communication, properly manage our differences, and expand our cooperation instead of engaging in confrontation.But between our two countries we’ve had confrontation in the past, and the result did not serve the United States well.  What did the United States gain from that confrontation?  I didn’t see any, and the only result was damages done to United States.  And China will pull through and has pulled through such confrontation.So the way we see the relationship with the United States is as President Xi Jinping has said – that is, we hope to see no confrontation, no conflict, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation with the United States.  And actually, during the phone call between the presidents, President Biden himself also talked about the importance of having no conflict or confrontation between our two countries.  So at our level, I think it’s vital that we do everything we can to fully and faithfully follow up and implement the understandings reached between our two presidents and bring back the China-U.S. relationship to the track of sound and steady growth.On cyber attacks, let me say that whether it’s the ability to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed, the United States is the champion in this regard.  You can’t blame this problem on somebody else.The United States itself does not represent international public opinion, and neither does the Western world.  Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion.  So we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the United States, we hope the U.S. side will think about whether it feels reassured in saying those things, because the U.S. does not represent the world.  It only represents the Government of the United States.  I don’t think the overwhelming majority of countries in the world would recognize that the universal values advocated by the United States or that the opinion of the United States could represent international public opinion, and those countries would not recognize that the rules made by a small number of people would serve as the basis for the international order.Because, Mr. Secretary and NSA Sullivan, you have delivered some quite different opening remarks, mine will be slightly different as well.are China’s second and the third largest trading partners.  ASEAN has now become China’s largest trading partner, overtaking the European Union and the United States.  So we do hope that the United States will develop sound relations with all countries in the Asia-Pacific.  We should have many mutual friends.  This is the right way forward in the 21st century.On the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden had a phone conversation.  The two presidents agreed to step up communication, manage differences, and expand cooperation between our two countries.  We are having this dialogue today to follow up on the common understanding of the two presidents reached during their phone conversation.  And having this dialogue is, in fact, a decision made by the two presidents.  So for the people of the two countries and the world, they’re hoping to see practical outcomes coming out of our dialogue.  And with Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan, they are an inalienable part of China’s territory.  China is firmly opposed to U.S. interference in China’s internal affairs.  We have expressed our staunch opposition to such interference and we will take firm actions in response.On human rights, we hope that the United States will do better on human rights.  China has made steady progress in human rights and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well.  The United States has also said that countries can’t rely on force in today’s world to resolve the challenges we face.  And it is a failure to use various means to topple the so-called “authoritarian” states.  And the challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated.  They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter.  It did not come up only recently.  So we do hope that for our two countries, it’s important that we manage our respective affairs well instead of deflecting the blame on somebody else in this world.And for China, we will manage our own affairs well, and we hope to deliver a better life for our 1.4 billion Chinese people.  This is the goal of China’s diplomacy.  And also, we will make our contribution to the peace and stability of the world.  Since breaking the ice between our two countries in our engagement several decades ago, China and the United States have achieved a lot together.  This is the result of the concerted efforts of the people with vision of both countries, and this past is a part of our achievements.  Although so much has changed in this world, it is important that our two countries think about how we can work together and expand our cooperation under the new circumstances. If there is competition between our two countries, I think the competition focuses on the economic aspect, and in this area, as I have said just now, for frictions in our economic engagement, it is important to respond to them in a rational way and seek win-win results.  And China-U.S. trade has already achieved a lot, and we should do even better.  The overwhelming majority of American businesses in China have said that China’s business environment is good and nobody has forced them to stay in China.  They see a profit coming from their presence in China and they see immense opportunities in China.  That’s why they are staying in China.  And I believe that for our two countries, under the new circumstances, we need to enhance communication, properly manage our differences, and expand our cooperation instead of engaging in confrontation.But between our two countries we’ve had confrontation in the past, and the result did not serve the United States well.  What did the United States gain from that confrontation?  I didn’t see any, and the only result was damages done to United States.  And China will pull through and has pulled through such confrontation.So the way we see the relationship with the United States is as President Xi Jinping has said – that is, we hope to see no confrontation, no conflict, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation with the United States.  And actually, during the phone call between the presidents, President Biden himself also talked about the importance of having no conflict or confrontation between our two countries.  So at our level, I think it’s vital that we do everything we can to fully and faithfully follow up and implement the understandings reached between our two presidents and bring back the China-U.S. relationship to the track of sound and steady growth.On cyber attacks, let me say that whether it’s the ability to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed, the United States is the champion in this regard.  You can’t blame this problem on somebody else.The United States itself does not represent international public opinion, and neither does the Western world.  Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion.  So we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the United States, we hope the U.S. side will think about whether it feels reassured in saying those things, because the U.S. does not represent the world.  It only represents the Government of the United States.  I don’t think the overwhelming majority of countries in the world would recognize that the universal values advocated by the United States or that the opinion of the United States could represent international public opinion, and those countries would not recognize that the rules made by a small number of people would serve as the basis for the international order.Because, Mr. Secretary and NSA Sullivan, you have delivered some quite different opening remarks, mine will be slightly different as well.onship to the track of sound and steady growth.On cyber attacks, let me say that whether it’s the ability to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed, the United States is the champion in this regard.  You can’t blame this problem on somebody else.The United States itself does not represent international public opinion, and neither does the Western world.  Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion.  So we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the United States, we hope the U.S. side will think about whether it feels reassured in saying those things, because the U.S. does not represent the world.  It only represents the Government of the United States.  I don’t think the overwhelming majority of countries in the world would recognize that the universal values advocated by the United States or that the opinion of the United States could represent international public opinion, and those countries would not recognize that the rules made by a small number of people would serve as the basis for the international order.Because, Mr. Secretary and NSA Sullivan, you have delivered some quite different opening remarks, mine will be slightly different as well. (6)>>Zheng Yongnian. "He is certainly a very weak President, if he can't sort out domestic issues, then he will do something on the diplomatic front, do something against China. If we say Trump is not interested in promoting democracy and freedom, Biden is. (President Donald) Trump is not interested in war... but a Democratic President could start wars."