Biden is ‘weak’ and an ’embarrassment’ on China: Trump

Former president Donald Trump has accused the Biden administration of being "weak" on China, after Beijing officials castigated the US government during a recent high-level meeting. US and Chinese officials have clashed during their first face-to-face meeting since Joe Biden became president. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi shared with reporters their sharply different views of each other and the world at the beginning of the two-day talks in Alaska. Relations between the world's two largest economies were already tense before the two met thanks to trade disputes, the coronavirus pandemic, Beijing's assertiveness over the South China Sea, and human rights in Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Mr Blinken said China's actions "threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability", adding: "That's why they're not merely internal matters, and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today." However, Mr Yang was having none of it, speaking for more than 15 minutes and criticising American democracy, its treatment of minorities, and its foreign and trade policies. Speaking with Fox News, Mr Trump said Chinese officials would "never have spoken" to his administration in this manner. "We never had anything like that happen. … That was an absolute embarrassment to our country. I could not believe it," Mr Trump said. "We should have walked out. Nobody ever talked to my group that way, have nobody ever talked to me that way, I can tell you that. "If they did, I would have doubled up the tariffs -- which, frankly, were something we probably should have done, anyway. I took in billions and billions of dollars from China. We were bringing businesses back. It was really going well. And China respected us. They never spoke to us the way they spoke [to Biden's team]

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