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** Chinese Defense Minister Rejects Meeting with SecDef Austin
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China on Monday rejected a request from woke Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ([link removed]) to meet his Chinese counterpart, Defense Minister Li Shangfu, at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, according to a Wall St. Journal report ([link removed]) .
The rejection comes despite a “weekslong effort” by the U.S. to secure a meeting with Li, which included a letter from Austin.
“Overnight, the PRC informed the U.S. that they have declined our early May invitation for Secretary Austin to meet with PRC Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu in Singapore this week,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “The Department believes strongly in the importance of maintaining open lines of military-to-military communication between Washington and Beijing to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict.”
A Chinese Embassy spokesman told the WSJ that the U.S. was “seeking to suppress China through all possible means and continue imposing sanctions on Chinese officials, institutions and companies. Is there any sincerity in and significance of any communication like this?”
Though Austin was rebuffed, other officials like Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan have been able to meet recently with their counterparts. There have been other lower-level meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials as well.
But China has said there was little chance of a meeting between Austin and his new counterpart as long as there are U.S. sanctions on him, which were imposed by the Trump administration in 2018 for Chinese purchases of Russian fighter jets and missiles.
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** Austin Emphasizes Leftwing Indoctrination Regarding “Diversity,” “Equity,” & “White Supremacy”
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Central to the worldview of the race-obsessed Defense Secretary Austin, is a belief that racism is America’s most salient and enduring feature. That belief animates Austin’s passionate crusade to impose racial “diversity” – by force – upon the military that he oversees. As Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said ([link removed]) in May 2021 about Austin: “He’s certainly concerned about the diversity at the senior levels of the department. And this is not just senior enlisted levels, but senior officer levels, admirals, and generals. The numbers [of nonwhites] are not very high.” “[Austin] also believes there’s a sense of urgency here,” added Kirby. “The time is now to start to grow that [nonwhite] talent and develop that talent and provide opportunities for that talent to continue to advance of the ranks.” And for anyone who might wonder whether “diversity” is
in fact a worthy goal for an institution whose main purpose is to defend a nation rather than to serve as a social laboratory for leftwing dogmas, Kirby explained that Austin “strongly believes that diversity is a readiness issue because it allows different perspectives, additional context, different lived experiences to inform the way we make decisions in the policies that we craft, the operations that we lead...”
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