So a 100 year old war criminal is invited by another war criminal actively involved in genocide, China’s secretary of defense, Li Shangfu, to denigrate “some people” in the US. Wonder who they could be…

Oh and guess what:

Li has been the subject of US sanctions since 2018, relating to the purchase of combat aircraft from Russia’s main arms exporter, which Beijing cites as a reason for refusing to reopen military-to-military dialogues with Washington. Last month, Li refused to meet his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

This is a transparent effort to work a backdoor into US foreign policy in the advent of a Republican administration in 2024, as China knows they can’t get any traction with Austin or the Biden administration. Given Kissinger’s reputation for dirty tricks and geopolitical manipulation, there’s no way that any conversation between these two is good for the US, or for those China oppresses.

According to a readout on Tuesday from the Chinese defence ministry, Li Shangfu said “friendly communication” between China and the US had been “destroyed” because “some people in the United States did not meet China halfway”. Kissinger said he was a “friend of China”, according to the readout.