The Biden-Xi Call Leads to Confusing, Conflicting Statements

Who would have thought that someone wouldn’t understand what Joe Biden was talking about?

The man is a straight-talker.

There’s never any malarkey – at all. Not even invisible traces of malarkey.

RT:

China’s President Xi Jinping urged his US counterpart Joe Biden to engage in talks with Russia to address the reasons behind the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, stressing it should be resolved through diplomacy. The two presidents held talks via a video link on Friday, discussing various international and bilateral issues. The talks were held “at the request” of Washington, China’s Foreign Ministry noted in a statement.

China’s leader stressed that Beijing has always stood “for peace and opposes war,” urging all the parties involved in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev to stick to diplomacy.

“All sides need to jointly support Russia and Ukraine in having dialogue and negotiation that will produce results and lead to peace,” the Chinese statement issued after the talks reads. At the same time, President Xi told Biden that the ongoing crisis should be addressed on another level as well.

The US and NATO should also have dialogue with Russia to address the crux of the Ukraine crisis and ease the security concerns of both Russia and Ukraine.

Biden, for his part, “underscored his support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis,” warning Beijing of “the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia,” a brief readout of the talks released by the White House reads. Both Moscow and Beijing have denied Russia had ever sought help from China amid the ongoing offensive in Ukraine, refuting media reports suggesting so.

Biden and Xi also discussed the outstanding issues in the bilateral ties of their countries, with China’s Foreign Ministry and the White House producing somewhat contradicting accounts of the statements made by the two leaders during the talks.

“President Xi pointed out that the China-US relationship, instead of getting out of the predicament created by the previous US administration, has encountered a growing number of challenges,” the Chinese statement reads, blaming the “current situation” in the bilateral ties onto “some people on the US side” who “have not followed through on the important common understanding reached by the two presidents.”

“Biden reiterated that the US does not seek a new Cold War with China; it does not aim to change China’s system; the revitalization of its alliances is not targeted at China; the US does not support ‘Taiwan independence’; and it has no intention to seek a conflict with China,” the statement reads.

The White House, however, said that Biden only “reiterated that US policy on Taiwan has not changed, and emphasized that the United States continues to oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo.”

There is no longer any “status quo” on Taiwan, of course.

Every previous administration supported the One China policy, which effectively means that at some indefinite point in the future, Taiwan will be returned to China. However, due to the lunacy of the current age, the Biden people, backed up by the unhinged media, have started claiming that Taiwan is “an independent country,” something that no one had ever thought of before.

As far as the Ukraine – this is stupid to even discuss at this point. Everyone other than the US and its allies are saying that there should be a diplomatic solution.

The US has said that it doesn’t support a diplomatic solution, but then when pressured, it will claim that if their puppet government in the Ukraine supports a diplomatic solution, then they will support it.

Well, Zelensky keeps saying that he is open to a diplomatic solution, and is saying he would agree not to join NATO, but the US continues to just ignore these statements and keeps sending weapons.

Zelensky, out of the other side of his mouth, also calls for weapons.

If I had to guess, I would guess that Zelensky is going off script when he says he supports a diplomatic solution. He’s on script when he’s appearing before parliaments saying he wants World War III.

Either that, or he’s purposefully saying two different things just to create confusion.

Anyway, here’s the fact: Russia has said that it will immediately withdraw all troops if Zelensky agrees to:

  • Sign a neutrality agreement to not join NATO/EU
  • Surrender claims to the Donbass and Crimea

So everyone who is dying is dying for those reasons – even while every single strategist on earth knows that in the end, Russia will achieve those goals anyway, while also occupying 2/3rds of the Ukraine.

The US policy is the unbelievably cynical agenda to create as much death and destruction as possible while prolonging the inevitable. They’ve made that clear.

So what is the point in even talking to them? What can possibly be achieved by engaging in good faith with such dishonest actors?