China Claps Back At US And Says To Stop ‘Constantly Challenge China’s Red Line’

In November President Biden met with President Xi Jinping where he claimed that the U.S. would back off on some of their provocations towards the Eastern red dragon, saying the U.S. does not want “a new cold war:”

American Military News details this most recent contentious discussion:

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China cautioned the U.S. not to “constantly challenge China’s red line,” which it said will only lead to “head-on collision,” in a phone call between Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his Chinese counterpart late December.

The warning came days before China flew dozens of military aircraft near Taiwan in a “strike drill” that was the country’s biggest move in recent months to intimidate the island, which China sees as its own territory.

In the phone call, China Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Blinken that the U.S. needs to “stop using salami tactics” against “China’s red line,” according to China’s summary of the call. “Salami tactics” are smaller actions that add up to be as significant as a single, more provocative action. 

In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that Taiwan, an island China sees as its own territory, is a “red line that cannot be crossed in the China-U.S. relationship.” At the time, President Joe Biden criticized China for its “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan,” adding that the U.S. “opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.”

The leaders talked Taiwan during a three-hour meeting at the annual G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. During the call on Dec. 23, Wang said the U.S. and China should “focus on translating” Biden and Xi’s Bali meeting “into practical policies and concrete actions.” 

Otherwise, he said, a “zero-sum mentality will only lead the two major countries to mutual attrition and head-on collision.”

It is important that the two sides follow the course charted by the two presidents, explore the right way for China and the US to get along as two major countries, and make due efforts to advance the well-being of the two peoples and world peace and stability.

The Chinese summary of the call states.

The U.S. summary of the call is brief. Blinken “discussed the need to maintain open lines of communication and responsibly manage the U.S.-PRC relationship,” according to the State Department spokesman Ned Price.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[7] And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. [8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Mark 13:7-8

Not only do we have a deadly war on the horizon with Russia because the U.S. and NATO are determined to have us all decimated, we also have to factor in the China-Taiwan quagmire.

The U.S. has vowed to defend Taiwan at all costs. Whether that is true or not is yet to be seen. I personally don’t see the U.S. actually getting involved militarily at first, but will do something identical to what they have been doing with Ukraine – supplying weapons and levying restrictions on them

Either option is not good, because China will simply do what Russia did and levy their own restrictions. All China has to do is mandate that the factories be shutoff and ships cannot export goods on U.S. soil. China would collapse America in days, and not a single bullet would have to be fired.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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