It’s impossible to maintain the kind of friendly relationship the Biden administration seeks to build with China, especially in the light of revelations about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and the widely anticipated invasion of Taiwan, said economist and longtime China observer Gordon Chang.
“The Biden administration wants to establish channels of communication with Communist China. But the problem is, when you start thinking about the irreconcilable differences between China’s regime and the United States, that it’s just not going to work,” Chang said in an interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders: NOW.”
The interview comes after the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned from a trip to Beijing and declared that his conversation with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) head Xi Jinping had successfully “injected some greater stability” into the intensified bilateral relationship. That statement was soon put to the test when President Joe Biden called Xi a dictator, saying that Xi was very upset when a Chinese surveillance balloon was blown off course over the United States earlier this year….