WEIRD thing about President Biden's foreign policy playbook: He threatens China if it aids Russia (vs Ukraine) by (recently) meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and warns of a partnership in the region to "counter China." At least, no fist-bump was exchanged.
Didn't Potus know that the top 2 buyers of Moscow's oil since the start of the war (in Ukraine) are China and India, who are BRICS buddies with Russia?
Meanwhile, since he couldn't convince Taiwan to diss China or he failed to goad China to invade Taiwan, he instead offers $6.6 billion in federal money to Taipei's TSMC to build a microchip factory in Phoenix. (Another $6.4 billion is handed to South Korea’s Samsung for a plant, also in Texas.)
But of course chips need silicon. So Joe (separately) sent both State secretary Antony Blinken (his third?) and Treasury chief Janet Yellen (her second trip) to China to ask Xi Jinping to take it easy with exports of silicon to other competitors. And suggest to sell them instead to the U.S. Or to TSMC, which is already being supplied by China, in the first place.
All these as Mr Biden keeps on trumpeting the "Chinese danger." Of course, his stance in Israel follows the playbook. He castigates Bibi yet he pressures Congress to speed up shipment of new fighter planes to Israel. And warns of a widened war which is geared at Iran. The eventual, expected rationale of pumped-up military aid to Tel Aviv. Weird, wild world. 🏛🗽🏛
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