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After making unfounded claims on Xinjiang, Blinken was met without a red carpet and welcomed by lower ranking officials in China (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you’re going to intentionally sabotage your trip then why bother going at all?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's to "look tough on China" and to pretend they care about diplomacy.

They do this to appear "diplomatic" with other nations, so they can pretend they tried diplomacy before threatening them later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Exactly this. He's already acknowledged China has no interest in the current set of demands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

lol right, it's just such a clown show