Nevertheless, Xi persisted
The Spectator | 11 Feb 2021 | Dominic Green

‘Biden confronts China’s Xi in first call,’ reports Politico. Biden couldn’t ‘confront’ a cheese sandwich without a side order of denture paste.

‘In first call with Xi since election, Biden warns him on human rights,’ reports the New York Times. That’s a ‘warning’ on ‘human rights’ abuses than Xi says aren’t happening.

‘Last night, I was on the phone for two straight hours with Xi Jinping,’ Biden announced to the press on Thursday, as though boasting of the bladder strength of a younger man. ‘We don’t get moving, they’re going to eat our lunch.’

But America’s lunch was long since served to China, and Biden was a consistent supporter of serving it. What’s coming next is the tab. This, as is traditional, will be paid by ordinary Americans and other suckers.

The Washington Post gets it right, if only by accident: ‘Biden has first call as president with Xi Jinping.’ It’s Biden who’s now the weaker party, ringing up to petition for favors so he can confirm his false view of reality, and the false impressions that his domestic media are pushing. Substituting fiction for reality is, of course, a sure and short path to disaster. And it is the path we are on.

For similar reasons of image, Biden — or the handlers who compose his cue cards — is sending a signal by not sending a signal to Netanyahu. The message is that the Obama days are back. Netanyahu is in for triple-time on the naughty step, first for denouncing Obama’s Iran Deal to Congress in 2015, again for going on playdates with that nasty Donald Trump, and yet again for making up with the Gulf monarchies.

The Biden administration can do no wrong in the media’s eyes, unless it’s on matters of racial or gender ‘equity’. Even then, no one complained that the first recipients of Biden’s slurred wisdom were the leaders of Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany and France. Biden was telephonically privileging a bunch of white men and Angela Merkel. We were told this was how serious diplomacy is done.

This, like most of what the media tells us about the Biden administration, is nonsense. Serious diplomacy is done with people who don’t like you.

People like Benjamin Netanyahu, who accurately sees Joe Biden as a blowhard and a fool.

People like Ali Khamenei of Iran, who doesn’t care when the call comes, because he already knows that, one way or another, Biden will give him everything he wants, whether he wants to or not.

People like Xi Jinping, who surely cannot believe his luck that Donald Trump, the first president since the Korean War to give China a hard time, has been replaced by Hunter Biden’s semi-senile father.

The world is saying goodbye to America. Americans should understand that this means that they too will be saying goodbye to America. Dream on.