First Cuba and now China…it turns out Biden’s HHS nominee Xavier Becerra has a long history of carrying water for the world’s worst dictatorships.
His efforts to explain away China’s grievous human rights abuses were truly unreal:
“’We have two very different cultures, and we have two very different perspectives on the world,’ Becerra told NPR. ‘That’s not to say one perspective is better than the other.’ Becerra, first elected to the House in 1992, explained that because China was a developing country with different cultural mores, it was understandable that its leaders take ‘a dim view of what they consider meddling by the U.S. in its affairs internally — especially with regard to human rights.’ Becerra offered an example from the Chinese perspective. Because the country is struggling to feed its more than 1 billion people, he pointed out, its leaders don’t believe ‘providing freedom of the press’ can be a top priority just yet. Becerra added that when negotiating with Chinese officials, it was important never to say ‘I disagree’ on such questions. An amicable attitude, he said, gave the Chinese a chance at ‘saving face’ when staring down a tough conversation. ‘It’s not so much that they don’t agree with us,’ he said. ‘It’s that they look at things differently.’”
At the time of his comments, China was actively infringing on the human rights of the people living in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong. Biden’s Secretary of State has now called China’s actions in Xinjiang a genocide.
“That’s not to say one perspective is better than the other”… if you can’t say the U.S. system is better than the Communist Chinese system than you should have no place holding public office. Unfortunately, Biden himself has downplayed China’s abuses saying, “culturally there are different norms.” This attitude is dangerous.
Americans deserve better than an HHS secretary and a president who refuse to call out China.
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