The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turned the Tianjin talks on July 26 into Alaska talks Version 2. The CCP’s foreign minister Wang Yi blatantly made three demands on the U.S., which he claimed to be the “bottom lines” that the regime “firmly upholds”. These demands are: firstly, “the United States must not challenge, slander or even attempt to subvert” the CCP’s socialist system; secondly, “The United States must not attempt to obstruct or even interrupt China’s development process;” and thirdly, “the United States must not infringe upon China’s state sovereignty, or even damage China’s territorial integrity.” With these three demands, the CCP wants the U.S. to recognize the legitimacy of the party’s authoritarian system. In addition, it asks the U.S. to fully satisfy the CCP’s economic needs, including the massive dumping of pirated and counterfeit products, the massive theft of U.S. technical secrets, and the continuation of the huge trade …