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Sunday, March 21, 2021

YANG JIECHI: "CHINESE DON'T EAT THAT"

 


The good news about the testy televised US-China talks in Anchorage on March 18, 2021 is that both sides felt free to exercise freedom of speech. And it’s not entirely bad news that both sides used the freedom of speech to bash one other.

 

Several times during the televised portion of the heated exchanges, one could only feel pity for the interpreters who had to wing it when diplomats on both sides went over the time limit and deviated from script.

 

Yang Jiechi brought a moment of drama to the otherwise dull meeting of masked men facing off across the cheap carpet of a second rate conference hall when he departed from prepared comments to say a few saucy things about US. He was visibly agitated at what he saw as a rude welcome full of snubs, slights and ritual humiliations.

 

“Strong smell of gunpowder and drama,” was the way Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described the meeting, adding that China’s serious response came in reaction to “groundless attacks” by the US.

 

“The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength,” complained Yang Jiechi, a veteran diplomat who in the early years of his long and respected career, showed a great deal of enthusiasm for America. He was known to be close to the Bush family and served as China’s ambassador in Washington from 2001-2005. Although he attended college in England, his daughter went to Yale. He was the foreign minister of China from 2007-2013.

  

Now a member of the Politburo, Yang has a voice that carries at home and abroad. He knows when to hold and when to fold, he can turn it on and turn it off. Arguably the only Politburo member who really understands America, it is shocking to hear him exclaim, “You aren’t nearly as good as we thought you were!”

 

This was Yang’s reaction to the “non-welcome welcome” from US Secretary of State Blinken who started things off by chastising China for falling short of US standards and urging it to get in alignment with US norms because the US sees US norms as the gold standard for the rules-based international order.

 

What does a grizzled diplomat say to a narcissistic host who is laying out a line of bull?

 

“Chinese do not eat that set!"

 

Do not eat what? What set? A certain kind of dish?


“Zhong guo ren bu chi zhe yi tao” 

The idiomatic phrase literally means "Chinese don't eat that set" but something gets lost in translation.

 

What? A set menu? Set meal?

 

Was Yang making a reference to the dinner menu?

 

Emphatically not, but more on that later.

  

It’s not that Yang wasn’t angry. (He might have been hungry, though) 

 

Those seemingly innocuous words can carry a great deal of heat.


What Yang said is more akin to “the Chinese people will simply not put up with that bull!”  Or “China is not gonna swallow that!” or “We are not gonna take that crap anymore!”

 

Already, T-shirts are being printed and sold on line with this memorably cryptic expression on it.

 

It’s important to consider the nuances of Yang’s idiomatic unscripted statement because unlike the propagandistic pabulum prepared in advance by both sides, it cuts to the core of the matter.

 

The Xinhua read-out of the meeting offered predictably bland, boilerplate rhetoric:

 

“The essence of China-U.S. relations is of mutual benefit and win-win results, rather than a zero-sum game. The two countries will gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.”

 

Yang’s eight-syllable quip contained more information than reams of Xinhua commentary.

 

Both sides started out with prepared statements packed with self-referential feel-good phrases but then tempers flared and they really got talking, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

 

As the Chinese say, “Fight first, friendship follows,” or “No fight, no friendship.”

 

Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan went to great lengths to wag the finger at China for not abiding by the American way. The suave diplomat Wang Yi, and Yang Jiechi, who lived in DC for four years, wagged the finger back.

 

The Chinese bristled at being lectured to but got in a few sharp retorts about America’s human rights failings, ranging from the genocide of Indians, the sorry history of slavery and murderous racial unrest.

 

Adding to Yang’s pique and displeasure was the poorly-timed move by the US to sanction 24 Chinese officials for failings of Hong Kong policy just a day before talks opened, which was interpreted as a bad faith gesture. 

 

Was it a deliberate shot over the bow to humiliate China or just inept timing?

 

Sumptuous banquet scenes and maotai toasts are among the most memorable images of  Nixon’s breakthrough visit to China.

 

Eating and drinking together makes for good optics, but it also makes for satiated statesmen. A shared meal is no empty ritual but the essence of a warm welcome. The provision of sustenance, so essential even when things are going well, is even more important when things aren’t going well.

 

When it comes to negotiations in high finance, the better the food, the better the mood and the better the chance of an amicable deal, even if it’s only a million-dollar deal.

 

The stakes in the US-China parley are considerable higher, involving the fate of billions of people and trillions of dollars in world trade.

 

So, what did the visiting member of China’s Politburo have for dinner at the end of his first day in Alaska?

 

Instant noodles.

 

No dinner was served, no welcome banquet given.

 

Yang reportedly went back to his hotel room for a simple and lonely repast. In terms of poignancy, it ranks right up there with the scene sketched by James Joyce about a down-on-his-luck Dubliner having a plate of boiled peas for dinner.

 

Sad. And it would be funny, too, were it not for the fact that the fates of two nuclear powers are in the balance.

 

Deliberate snubs and insults could inadvertently spark a downward spiral leading to war.

 

“Chinese do not eat that crock,” echoes the cry.

 

It’s a homespun way of saying it’s time to cut the BS and get down to serious business. 

 

 


 

 

Extra bonus: Photo above of "zhongguo ren bu chi zhe yi tao" commemorative T-shirt.

Below some photos and customer reviews of the Captain Cook, the Anchorage hotel where the US State Department saw fit to meet with its important guests from China. 

One can almost understand why Yang Jiechi opted for instant noodles in his room, but as some reviews point out, microwaves generally not available in this hotel.

 

 


 




 

 

 

ANCHORAGE CAPTAIN COOK HOTEL REVIEWS:


-Old outdated hotel. They dont have microwaves for the rooms. The microwave they do have, they wont let you have access to unless they have a staff member take your food out of your site and warm it up for you. With how uncleanly the rooms look and dishevelled the workers seem, I wouldnt trust them with my food. Dont stay here.

-I get to the room and the cleaning staff must have forgotten their gear when they left because there was cleaning supplies, restocking supplies,and a case of bottled water. For $140 a night, I would "expect" a little better. Room was ok; it served its purpose of somewhere to sleep so I didn't have to drive home in the dark but definitely NOT worth it.

-Overpriced, old, out of the ordinary, and outrageous! Pics speak for themselves.

-Nice historic hotel, but lacking in room amenities. I didn't even know they still had hotel rooms without a microwave? Fridge was as small as they come. For the nightly rate, I expected more. I cut my 11 night stay short as a result.

-Bed bug infestation. You do not want to stay here unless you wanna take critters home... room was infested and when I told the front desk staff they apologized but as I walked off and looked over my shoulder they laugh like it was funny... dont even deserve one star

-Little out dated and steep in price. Still pretty nice and give you the feel of Anchorage during the boom. This place was the go to spot for quality and Elegance 20 years ago.

on March 21, 2021
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Friday, March 12, 2021

MASTER CLASS IN DIPLOMACY

 



Why the US should look to Jim Sasser as a model for its new ambassador to China

  • Sasser’s conduct during the attack on the US embassy in Beijing in 1999 shows toughness is not everything
  • Rahm Emanuel lacks the calm and R Nicholas Burns the verve and autonomy needed for the job

Philip J Cunningham

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

Published:March 13, 2021

 

The image of US ambassador Jim Sasser peering out the broken door of the paint-splattered US embassy in Beijing is more than a moving photograph; it provides a mini-course in diplomacy.

The context: an anti-US demonstration whipped up in the angry aftermath to the US stealth bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7, 1999. The bombing was precise enough to destroy the building and kill three people.

There were those who claimed it was an accident, and others who insisted it was an intentional attack. Not surprisingly, opinion cleaved along national lines. Americans thought it unlikely to have been intentional. Why would a democratic country bomb an embassy? Chinese, and not just officials, thought it was intentional. Hi-tech and deadly, it showed the true colour of US imperialism.

In the hot seat during this maelstrom of national mood swings and incendiary opinion was US ambassador to Beijing, Jim Sasser. The mild-mannered former US senator from Tennessee who was a political appointee. He was no China expert, but a natural diplomat. 

 

The bombing of China’s embassy and the incendiary aftermath that saw the US embassy chancery defaced and battered, but not destroyed, was as close to war as the US and China have come in modern times. Perhaps, in retrospect, not as close as it felt at the time, but it was not uncommon for Americans in Beijing at the time to be lightning rods for populist anger.

 

When a US embassy photographer snapped a photo of a forlorn-looking ambassador staring at the damaged property, it was composed to good purpose. Although Jim Sasser left Beijing a few months later on a rotation that had been scheduled in advance, during that dire moment of need, he stood up and stood his ground, but he did so in a way that was at once wistful and empathetic.

 

The Biden administration needs to find an ambassador with such a temperament. Intimate China knowledge is highly desirable, but personality goes a long way in diplomacy and with China and the US at tenterhooks, an even-keeled envoy can help keep the peace.

 

Tough is not enough. Respected is not as important as respectable.

 

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s first stop on his first Asia tour is Japan. Although the US is rewarding Tokyo for its loyalty (subservience) by treating it as the number one diplomatic destination in Asia, everyone knows, including the Japanese, that China is paramount. 

 

The Japanese media picked up on this decades ago, popularizing the term “Japan passing” because Bill Clinton and other prominent US leaders tended to skip past Japan and land in Beijing. 

 

China has long beckoned for reasons of geopolitics, diplomatic urgency and to some extent for the sheer pomp and circumstance of a massively choreographed Beijing visit, following in the footsteps of Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Bush senior.

 

Blinken’s focus on Tokyo is a way of signaling that compliant behavior is rewarded, non-compliant behavior is not. It’s diplomatic theatre, but China takes such symbolic moves seriously. 

 

Already an artful accommodation has been reached. Blinken and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will stop in Anchorage, Alaska on the way home from Japan where they will meet with two high-ranking Chinese diplomats--Politburo member Yang Jiechi and State Councilor Wang Yi.

 

The new US ambassador has to be able to play subtle diplomatic games of this kind convincingly. That’s why one of the alleged top candidates for the slot, former Chicago mayor and Democratic Party loyalist Rahm Emanuel, would be a disastrous pick. 

 

He has a knack for making enemies; he did so as a Clinton advisor, and again after a brief tenure as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. When I spoke to him with colleagues at a private meeting at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard in 1997, he flew off the handle every time he got asked a question he didn’t like.

 

Good diplomacy is not about showing how tough you are, though toughness, backbone and underlying convictions are important.

 

When it comes to dealing with Beijing, keeping cool, calm and collected is also paramount.

 

On the other hand, a jaded diplomat such as R. Nicholas Burns, also considered to be on Biden’s shortlist, lacks the politician’s verve and autonomy of spirit of the sort that served Sasser so well in a time of crisis. 

 

A bureaucrat who has loyally served diverse masters with aplomb, Burn’s career spans the Bill Clinton years, and both Bush Presidencies. He served as ambassador to Greece and as George W. Bush's envoy to NATO, and supported the war in Iraq.  In 2008, he retired from the foreign service to spend more time with his family and lobby for arms manufacturers.

 

When it comes to dealing with Beijing in real time on the ground, it takes a leader, not a follower. Sure, ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president, but a good executive appoints qualified candidates and delegates authority to them. 

 

Surely there are many men and women both knowledgeable of China and of good temperament worth considering for the job.

 

And the position should be filled soon, to better stem the free fall in US-China relations.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

TIME FOR A SEASONED US AMBASSADOR TO CHINA

 


The Japan Times



Seasoned U.S. diplomat needed as China envoy

The United States needs a diplomat in Beijing who knows how to read between the lines of "Chinaspeak," not a political appointee.



Daniel Kritenbrink, U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, performs in a rap video to mark the traditional Tet holiday on the Lunar New Year. Kritenbrink, a career foreign service officer, is probably more qualified to be a diplomat in China than any of the other names currently being discussed, despite being a Trump era appointee. | U.S. EMBASSY IN HANOI / VIA AFP-JIJI

  • by Philip Cunningham
  • Contributing writer 

    March 3, 2021  

Who will be the next U.S. ambassador to China? It’s time for U.S. President Joe Biden to stop playing politics and choose someone of a diplomatic temperament who knows China well.

The United States needs a diplomat in Beijing who knows how to read between the lines of “Chinaspeak,” not a political appointee for whom an ambassadorship is sinecure, or a diversity candidate to score points back home. Yes, consideration should be open to all qualified candidates of all backgrounds. But so far, most of the names tipped for this key envoy position have been unqualified, puzzling or outright inappropriate.

In December, the name Pete Buttigieg was kicked around as a possible U.S. ambassador to China, though he quickly settled for a domestic position as transportation secretary instead. Then Disney chairman Bob Iger’s name got batted around. It is not known how serious either candidacy was in Biden’s eye, but by January, there began to be double-barreled speculation about an either-or choice: It would be either scrappy street-fighter Rahm Emmanuel or back-room bureaucratic eminence Nicholas Burns.

Emmanuel and Burns differ in style, one belligerent, the other diffident, but both are hardline hawks with little China experience and a bad history of strongly supporting the insupportable causes due to the irrational drumbeat for action overseas, such as the war in Iraq for example. Rather than narrow the choice down to the Scylla and Charybdis of two hardliners, Biden would be better off sailing away and widening the search to include candidates who are not easily persuaded to go to war.

One name recently put forward is Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri who got unseated by right-wing firebrand Josh Hawley. Not a great choice. She co-sponsored an Orwellian bill to criminalize boycotts of Israel, and accused Bernie Sanders of being too extreme. She holds mainstream Democratic Party plank positions on gun control and abortion, but has no diplomatic experience and knows nothing about China.

Daniel Kritenbrink, a career foreign service officer, is probably more qualified to be a diplomat in China than any of the other names currently being discussed in the papers, despite being a Trump era appointee. As U.S. ambassador in Hanoi, Kritenbrink is perhaps best known for a playful rap song he recorded to celebrate the Tet holiday in Vietnam. That shows he’s willing to take chances, culturally speaking, and it’s out of the box but a public relations dunk. He speaks Chinese and has worked as deputy chief of mission in Beijing, so not only could he hit the ground running, but also knows the Beijing social scene.

Chas Freeman, who was present at the dawn of U.S.-China relations as principal interpreter for the Nixon’s 1972 Beijing visit, would be an interesting choice, though he has ruffled feathers for speaking his own mind and at 77 is almost as old as Biden. Few American diplomats can match Freeman’s China chops, and his subsequent scholarship and diplomatic work is solid. Unlike Nicholas Burns and diffident diplomats who follow the flavor of the month approach, Freeman was tough enough to criticize the war in Iraq and elucidate problems concerning the way U.S. policy leaned to Israel.

But Nancy Pelosi, as close to a reigning queen of the Democratic Party as there is, now that Hillary Clinton has become a mystery book writer, has castigated Freeman for being too sympathetic to Beijing, which actually might make for a good ambassador, but is at odds with the belligerent mood of the moment.

China scholar David Shambaugh at George Washington University is a decent candidate wise to the ways of political life in Washington, as is Susan Shirk, of the University of San Diego. The latter is less diplomatic in temperament but has an edge given her stint as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. Being female doesn’t hurt.

China expects a high-profile figure, if only as a matter of face. As former Mexican ambassador Jorge Guajardo recently recalled, “I remember every time I’d approach someone in China they’d say ‘Oh you must be very powerful to be named ambassador to China’.”

But China doesn’t get to decide who the next ambassador is, and an argument can be made for someone not nationally known if they prove to be more supple and apt. The domestic political pressure for the top slot to go to a non-male, non-Caucasian candidate is not helpful, though all qualified comers should be considered.

Advocates for more Asian representation in the Biden administration have complained that his cabinet is the first without any Asian-American secretary in 20 years, but is it really meaningful to hold up hardcore Republican Mitch McConnell’s wife as an emblem of diversity? Elaine Chao was Secretary of Transportation under Donald Trump, and Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush.

It might seem like a shrewd diplomatic move to select a Asian-American for the job, for example, but as Chinese-American Gary Locke’s rocky tenure as U.S. ambassador to Beijing demonstrates, distant kinship, identity-wise, is no guarantee of success.

Perhaps a better example would be Bette Bao Lord, who took up residence on Guanghua Road ambassadorial residence from 1985 to 1989 while her husband Winston Lord served as ambassador. Ms. Lord made quite a splash in the local arts and culture scene, attending film screenings, rock concerts and meeting up with dissidents, grabbing the limelight from her husband.

The Biden administration has already doubled down on “tough-on-China” appointments, in part because it is a fundamentally conservative administration and also because it needs to get nominees past ultra conservative Senate Republicans.

Lloyd Austin and Ely Ratner at the Pentagon have made their suspicions of China clear, as have Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi at the National Security Council. With Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and William Burns at the CIA, it’s a slam dunk for the hardcore. The China hawks have it.

If hawkish views, power politics and virtue-signaling about diversity are allowed to guide Biden’s judgement on the China envoy pick, then U.S.-China diplomacy is in for a rough ride, rougher than it has to be. Which is why the search needs to be broadened with a focus on expertise instead of expedience.

At this rocky juncture in U.S.-China relations, the peace of the world may come to depend on Biden policy, which is why it is imperative to select a seasoned diplomat who is principled, has backbone, is deeply knowledgeable and is respected on both sides of the Pacific.

Philip J. Cunningham is a freelance writer on East Asian politics, author of “Tiananmen Moon” and “Tokyo Crush.”


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