Communist China Celebrates Trump’s Last Day as President, Then Hits Top Administration Officials with Sanctions

Communist China wasted no time in celebrating the departure of President Trump from the White Hosue on Wednesday, with its official news agency bidding him ‘Good Riddance.’

Of course, it’s not surprise that China would make sure a statement, especially considering that its final week in power the Trump administration declared the country’s treatment of its Uyghur minority a ‘genocide.’

And as The Daily Wire reports, China has plenty of reason to celebrate Joe Biden’s ascension to the highest office in the land:

China appears to have cause to celebrate Trump’s exit and Biden’s ascension. On Tuesday, at a hearing on her nomination for Director of National Intelligence before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Avril Haines stated that President-elect Joe Biden wants his administration to view the Chinese Communist Party not as an adversary, but a “global competitor.”

Biden stated in December that the U.S. should not “punish” China for the coronavirus, saying, “My concern from the beginning — I’ve spoke about it, and I met with Xi more times than anybody had up until the time we left office that I’m aware of — is to make it real clear to China there are international rules that, if you want to play by, we’ll play with you. If you don’t, we’re not going to play, number one. Number two, it’s not about punishing them for the COVID virus. It’s about insisting that there be international norms that are established that they play by.”

Last September, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Biden, “Let me ask you about China because in 2011 when you were vice president, you said, ‘It is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper.’ A lot of people think that allowing China into the World Trade Organization, which you supported, extending most favored nation status to China, which you supported, that those steps allowed China to take advantage of the United States by using our own open trade deals against us. Do you think in retrospect that you were naive about China?”

“No, here’s the thing. In the context of that, we want China to grow,” Biden said.

In addition to its taunting of the outgoing Trump administration, China also slapped over two dozen outgoing Trump administration officials, including Peter Navarro and Mike Pompeo, with sanctions which will prevent them from ever visiting or doing business in China. (Fox News):

China imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than two dozen former Trump administration officials, including outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, just as President Biden was sworn into office.

The latest sanctions followed years of contentious relations between top Trump officials and their counterparts in Beijing. The named U.S. officials face travel bans and business-related restrictions.

“Over the past few years, some anti-China politicians in the United States, out of their selfish political interests and prejudice and hatred against China and showing no regard for the interests of the Chinese and American people, have planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves which have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s interests, offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations,” China’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Aside from Pompeo, other officials tagged with sanctions included trade advisor Peter Navarro, former Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, current national security adviser Robert O’Brien, former national security advisor John Bolton and former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon.

 

 

 

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