President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he still regards Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “dictator,” prompting a testy response from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which denounced Biden’s remarks as an “irresponsible political maneuver” without explaining why Xi should be considered in any different light.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday quoted Chinese sources who claimed to have solved the mystery of Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s disappearance.
A column on China’s diplomacy in Africa in the state-run newspaper Global Times on Sunday noted “China’s foreign minister” engaged in a tour of the continent in January – a notable observation given the column did not name Foreign Minister Qin Gang who has been missing for a month.
The strange disappearance of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has become a major embarrassment for the regime in Beijing, as speculation grows that he has been silenced and purged for political reasons or personal misbehavior.
The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it has taken “appropriate” measures in retaliation for India refusing to grant visas to Chinese reporters.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday claimed the allegedly leaked classified documents from the Pentagon “clearly show that the US has long used its tech edge to conduct indiscriminate secret theft, surveillance and eavesdropping on countries in the world, including its allies.”
Former Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian was among the Communist regime’s most aggressive, and frequently offensive, spokesmen, trafficking in all sorts of deranged conspiracy theories and slander against China’s adversaries.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday blamed the United States for Afghanistan’s vast narcotics industry and demanded the U.S. government should “apologize and compensate for its dishonorable role in the Afghan drug problem.”
Russia and China on Monday both denied allegations by U.S. officials that Russia has asked China to provide military equipment to assist the invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration issued public warnings to Beijing on Monday that it must not do anything to assist the Russian war effort or help Moscow evade international sanctions.
Chinese state media on Sunday swooned over American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who won no medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics but made herself useful to the Chinese Communist Party by praising her hosts and gushing over the Olympic Village accommodations, at a time when other athletes were complaining about hideous food and substandard living conditions.
Syrian photographer Ali Haj Suleiman on Thursday blew the whistle on China’s Foreign Ministry for fraudulently presenting photos he took in Idlib as if they were snapshots of Afghanistan devastated by the U.S. invasion.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry published a “report” Sunday announcing the death of American democracy at the hands of wealth, racism, and “too many checks and balances.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry finally commented Tuesday on the case of tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after making bombshell rape allegations against a senior Chinese Communist Party official.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied reports that it stunned U.S. intelligence analysts by testing a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, while the Biden White House responded to the report by saying it “welcomes stiff competition” from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Former President Donald Trump’s use of the term “China virus” last year as a descriptive for the coronavirus has sparked a lawsuit by a civil rights group.
