Two foreign policy experts who spoke to Fox News Digital criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his handling of a trip to China that sparked an online firestorm.
Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury joined ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s high-stakes trip to Beijing.Antony Blinken's recent trip to China which was an ill-advised plan where the United States did not project strength and handed China a diplomatic win, according to two foreign policy experts who spoke with Fox News Digital.
Koffler explained her belief that Blinken’s blunt comment"singlehandedly removed the ‘strategic ambiguity’ component, on which U.S. policy has relied for decades, to keep China uncertain and guessing what the U.S. would do in response to a potential attack on Taiwan by Beijing." "President Biden and his team are simply not up to the task when it comes to international affairs, especially when dealing with someone like Xi, Putin, and other astute and calculating strategic opponents," Koffler, author of"Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America," said."This careless statement sends a terrible message to both US adversaries and allies.
"I am not sure there was, at least not for the U.S.," Klinck said."The optics of State being lectured in Beijing is not good. In fact, the seating arrangement in the Great Hall of the People with Xi at the head of the table was demeaning."
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