US, Chinese Diplomats Clash Publicly in First Meeting; Beijing Fears Hong Kong Democracy—Emily Lau

Brendon Fallon
By Brendon Fallon
March 20, 2021Wide Angle
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Although disillusionment with the government is growing amid a southern border crisis, looming new taxes, and unchecked Big Tech censorship, there may just be hopes of a U.S.–China policy that serves American interests. Top U.S. diplomats butted heads with their China counterparts at the first meeting under President Joe Biden, with America raising the issue of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses, and the CCP criticizing America’s “poor treatment of minorities.”

Mean words and token sanctions of officials only count for so much, though. Is the Biden administration serious about defending American, and the world’s, interests against China?

Most indicators point to China as the origin of the virus that has been used to justify mandatory mask-wearing, business and school shut-downs, and enforced social distancing. At the very least, the CCP concealed the facts of the virus, fueling its spread. In this way, the world has indirectly had a taste of freedoms impinged at the hands of the CCP. Hong Kong, meanwhile, suffers the direct suffocation of its freedoms, with its democratic electoral process now facing complete CCP decimation. There is no country beyond the CCP’s caustic reach. The world, and particularly America, does well to recognize and respond to the suffering of Hong Kongers.

Hosted by NTD journalist Brendon Fallon, Wide Angle is following the latest political developments in the United States and abroad, and finding the connection between these and the larger global trends of our times.

Wide Angle is an NTD show available on YouTube and on the NTD website.

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