Secretary Austin offered one hand in friendship while the other was cutting an already stretched defense budget. What does this mean? The Biden administration sent the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Asia to reassure allies with memories of Obama-era indifference that President Biden is cut from a different cloth. How can America cope with a rampant China when her own leaders do not believe that the country is worth defending? If they will not stand for a nation grounded in the universal principles of human dignity and individual freedom-and the one nation in history to offer a helping hand to all the peoples of the world including our enemies-where will they stand? ![]() Blinken retreated in the face of the onslaught, mouthing Ivy League pieties about America’s “imperfections.” His inability to be anything but defensive about his own country sets the tone for what to expect in the next four years. The Wall Street Journal posited that the Chinese made clear that “…after the Trump years, Beijing wants a return to the policy of Obama accommodation to China’s global advances.” Blinken by simply echoing President Biden’s own woke critique of America, noting the need for Black Lives Matter and condemning America’s suppression of human rights within her own borders. The Chinese Foreign Minister hammered Mr. It is not clear whether the Biden administration understands it is in a similar situation, at least judging by its reactions to China’s global provocations and its haranguing of the Secretary of State at a March conference in Alaska. With wartime blinders off, President Truman announced that “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were born, and America slowly turned its attention to the twilight struggle with Soviet Communism. In addition, it has an elaborate and far-flung apparatus for exertion of its influence in other countries, an apparatus of amazing flexibility and versatility, managed by people whose experience and skill in underground methods are presumably without parallel in history… how to cope with this force undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced and probably the greatest it will ever have to face.Īt the time of the Telegram, the Soviet Union had already subjugated Eastern Europe and was planning to take control of the Bosporus, displace Britain as the predominant power in Greece, and ensure Communist control of the eastern Mediterranean. This political force has complete power of disposition over energies of one of world’s greatest peoples and resources of world’s richest national territory and is borne along by deep and powerful currents of Russian nationalism. We have here a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure. The Telegram’s prescience is as powerful today as it was when written under Stalin’s nose: As Kennan would have opined, China, “ undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced and probably the greatest it will ever have to face.” This is 2021, not 1946, but replace Russia and Soviet power with China and the Chinese Communist Party and the Long Telegram once again becomes operative. ![]() ![]() The clear-eyed assessment of the brutish Soviet regime, known to history as The Long Telegram, became the foundation for 45 years of the containment of Moscow and for the eventual triumph of the American ideal. Kennan warned the United States faced an enemy dedicated to destroying its principal adversary by first weakening her allies through subversion, bribery, and intimidation and then achieving total military superiority. On February 22, 1946, George Kennan, then a young American diplomat in the Soviet Union, penned a secret cable to the State Department.
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