(DailyWire) Democrat Max Baucus, former President Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to China, told CNN Tuesday afternoon that communist China views Biden as weak.
Baucus’ remarks to CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” come as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) landed in Taiwan on Tuesday despite warnings not to go from China and by the Biden administration.
“The deeper problem here really is that the visit by the speaker is really pushing America more toward recognizing [Taiwan’s] an independent country,” Baucus said. “That’s a big problem here.”
“Don’t forget, too, Speaker Pelosi, it’s a free pass for her,” he continued. “She’s not the president. She doesn’t have to worry about conducting foreign policy worldwide. She is a member of Congress. She doesn’t have to worry about it. She does a little, but not much.”
Baucus then explained why Biden looks weak to the Chinese.
“I got to tell you, during the time I was serving in Beijing, one thing I really learned: Chinese understand strength better than do people in any other country, and they could smell weakness 100 miles away,” he concluded. “We’ve got to be strong but strong in the best sense.”
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Democrat Max Baucus, former U.S. Ambassador to China: China views “poor Joe Biden” as “weak” pic.twitter.com/MY9Y2OVLXF
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