by Fong Yuen

There seems to be a lot of incidents between China and the U.S. lately. On China’s side, Di Dongsheng, a professor at Renmin University and so-called Xi Jinping’s think tank, has revealed the inside story among the CCP, Biden, and the Wall Street, a video of which has been shared via the U.S. famous lawyer Powell and already gone viral. On the other hand, Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister, has again played the old tune of “China and the U.S. can talk through any problem.”

Meanwhile, in the U.S., it has just announced the sanctioning of 14 vice-chairpersons of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC). The House of Representatives has also passed the “Hong Kong People’s Freedom and Choice Act.” The latter is the moral and substantive support for Hong Kong protesters, but the former is a blatant provocation with a hint of humiliation to the CCP.

Apparently, Di Dongsheng is the think tank for Xi Jinping. However, people cannot help but worry for Xi when seeing how ugly he was on stage with his frivolous and self-righteous attitude. It explains why the CCP is losing its grip since Xi took office if all he has are people of this quality. So Wang Yi was trying to be nice and said to the future U.S. President (that would be Biden in his mind) that he hopes the new government would make an effort to improve the China-U.S. relation; at the same time, Di was telling the world the secret connection of Biden and the CCP. So does the CCP want Biden to be grateful and resume China-U.S. relations, or does it want Biden to receive a full investigation from Congress as soon as he takes office?

The CCP’s revelation of Biden accepting benefits from it would bring Biden a serious problem whether it is true or not. Even if Biden takes office, would he dare to show the CCP goodwill? He could only go through with the anti-China route Trump has laid down. Otherwise, he would be a traitor to his country and investigated by Congress. He would be spurned by the Americans or even criticized.

Di received a round of applause with his speech and was pleased with himself. He did not know he was ruining the work of the Foreign Minister and destroying the relationship between the CCP and Biden’s family, saying goodbye to China and the U.S. reconciliation. No wonder the video was quickly taken down, and this pretentious “think tank” has to take the bitter consequence of his doing.

On the contrary, the U.S. once again acted on Hong Kong’s problem. It has given the protesting Hong Kong people solid help and is showing Hongkongers’ image of justice and uncompromising internationally, which is another deadly hit on the CCP’s perverse regime.

The target of the latest sanctioning has gone up to the vice chairperson’s level. On paper, it was a response to the NPCSC disqualifying four pan-democrat lawmakers; but the actual meaning has gone way beyond that. The highest-ranking officials included in the last sanctioning action were the Directors of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and Liaison Office, because of their responsibilities on handling Hong Kong’s problem. But the latest sanction aimed directly at all the vice-chairpersons with no exception. Another message the U.S. wanted to give out is implying the U.S. sanction has no bottom line, and there is more to come; it also wants to humiliate the CCP by indicating that the CCP cannot fight back against the U.S. sanctioning.

The U.S. latest sanctioning is the reaction of what the CCP has done recently on Hong Kong’s problem: the mass arrests and trials after the implementation of Hong Kong national security law, 12 Hongkongers being imprisoned in Shenzhen, the disqualifying of four lawmakers led to the dismantling of Legislative Council, the sentencing of Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam, the unjustifiable detainment of Jimmy Lai, the retaliation and attack on media, the promotion of brainwash education in school...etc. The karma of all the evil works done by Carrie Lam administration has ended up bitten the 14 country leaders. They must be so thankful to Lam.

Only the 14 vice-chairpersons would know if they are afraid of being sanctioned or not. If Xi’s daughter traveled all the way to Harvard to study, I guess the children and grandchildren of these vice-chairpersons would probably do the same. Would the U.S. government publish information om all the monies these CCP senior officials have transferred overseas in the future to remind Chinese people to reflect on the “superiority” of the country’s system so that there will be internal conflict within the ruling group and shake up the legality of the CCP’s ruling? That would be depending on the CCP’s reaction to the U.S. sanctioning.

The U.S. government had for a while not counteracted the CCP’s Hong Kong policy because of the heating up of the U.S. presidential race. It also did not want to fight the battle alone when the EU countries have not stated their stance. Lately, Trump has already gone full power with the legal process. Although Biden is already forming his cabinet, he is very cautious and has not been too kind toward the CCP. Then the EU and NATO both have successively expressed that they wish to establish a coordination mechanism for China policy with the U.S. and take the same procedures. Against this background, Trump’s act of sanctioning the CCP leaders is the result of strategizing.

The CCP is keen on ruining its own game, and the U.S. now comes to provoke. There is nothing left to talk about between them, and they are in a “mutually sabotaging” overall situation. Their relation is heading to a worse status, and the world’s situation is developing in a more dangerous direction.

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