The sad reality is that Sullivan’s trip, his meeting with CCP leaders, and these blind agreements to engagement are having a cumulative and deleterious impact on our national security.
In late August, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to the People’s Republic of China for three days of meetings that included Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, Director of the CCP’s Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi, and Vice Chairman of the CCP’s Central Military Commission (CMC) General Zhang Youxia. While Xi and Wang hold state titles, President and Foreign Minister, respectively, the significance of this visit is that the Biden-Harris administration dispatched Sullivan to meet with the top leadership of the CCP, a party and ideology that are dedicated to the defeat and destruction of America.
So why did Sullivan make such a trip with less than six months to go in the Biden administration? There are two main reasons: one, Sullivan was seeking to enhance his political and career resume; and second, he was there to ensure that the policy of “neo-engagement” and surrender to the CCP was solidified before Americans go to the polls on November 5.
This visit was publicized, in both PRC and U.S. media, as the “first” visit by a U.S. National Security Advisor to the PRC since former NSA Susan Rice visited during the last days of the Obama Administration in 2016. Defining this visit as a “first” fits a well-established pattern for this administration that openly brags that they place more emphasis on “firsts” and breaking glass ceilings than they do on meritocracy, competency, or the national security of the United States and the security of the American people. The goal of imbuing a person with the status of a “first” is to enhance the person’s standing in the hierarchy of elitism that dominates this administration and their political ideology.
As such, in the week before Sullivan’s visit, there were a series of carefully crafted press reports about how Sullivan may be a candidate for secretary of state in a future Kamala Harris administration. This places Sullivan’s trip into the category of “due diligence” to establish his gravitas in meeting with these leaders of the PRC. For many years now, Joe Biden boasted about “traveling 17,000 miles” with Xi, so you can expect Jake Sullivan to parlay this late-term meeting to elevate his special place in the ranking of “China Hands”—the expert class that has unfortunately sold out our national security in the vain belief in engagement at all costs.