What is the real purpose of the Biden administration’s excessive rapprochement and even flattery of China, including the most recent controversial Xi–Biden meetings in San Francisco? The answer, found in the U.S. government’s statements, is to keep channels open between the two sides and ensure China’s cooperation on climate and fentanyl issues.

With this agenda , U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is not ashamed to complain that China refused to acknowledge him; Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen awkwardly bowed to her Chinese counterpart; and upon hearing the news that Xi Jinping will not attend the G20, President Joe Biden ruefully laments: “I’m disappointed, I am going to see him.” (READ MORE from Kok Bayraq: Calling Xi Jinping a Dictator Is a Compliment)

For a move to have political or strategic meaning, it must first be logical. Let’s analyze the climate problem assuming it exists and is even dangerous: Is it possible for a family whose house is a mess and whose kitchen is covered in dirt to have a clean garden? Is it possible for someone whose garden is full of wild plants to have manicured flowers in front of their doors? These things are possible, but highly improbable.

Let’s be realistic: The concern of climate change’s effects are primarily an issue for a people that have overcome the problem of hunger. It is not the problem of a poor society in which people’s stomachs are not yet full and in which ordered liberty has not yet been established. Therefore, it is unreasonable to expect the Chinese people, some of whom have fled the country and sought political asylum in the U.S. and Europe, to worry about the climate.

What about power?

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) preserved its throne by suppressing opposition forces — its own grandchildren — using tanks when its own regime was shaken in 1989. As 22 countries governments have announced, China is currently committing genocide against Uyghurs. 

Is it possible for a group that has no compassion for people to have compassion for animals and flora? Can a group that uses all its means to destroy a nation, a culture, and a religion have any concern about the disappearance of flowers and trees? Can a regime that does not take responsibility for a disaster like Covid-19 and does not allow the origins of the virus to be found care about the depletion of rivers and the drying of lakes? Is it possible for such a regime to be disturbed by air and sea pollution? It is possible, but highly improbable.

The CCP has neither the mind nor the nature to think about climate. 

The Biden administration keeps emphasizing the need to avoid miscalculation between the two sides. Unfortunately, this is a fruitless initiative and an insulting position. The concern of an unelected power is to legitimize its own authority, which naturally happens through miscalculations. 

When the CCP came to power, it left poor Chinese people even hungrier. The miscalculation was that communism would take the Chinese people forward. In the 1950s, 45 million people died in a famine caused by the regime. The party miscalculated again by blaming capitalism instead of pointing to the attempts to violate the laws of nature, such as the “Great Leap Forward,” as the reason for the famine. Therefore, in the 1960s and 1970s, during the Cultural Revolution, it killed many more scientists and businessmen and destroyed the valuable time of the Chinese people. The CCP is clearly making miscalculations not out of ignorance but on purpose as a means of perpetuating its existence. (READ MORE: Niall Ferguson: Are the US and China Truly ‘Polar Opposites’?)

In short, the CCP was born, has grown and exists, survives, and has even expanded to threaten the world via miscalculations. But for our part, expecting openness from the CCP is the worst kind of miscalculation!

Let’s talk about fentanyl. In Chinese society, there is a concept, called “100 years of humiliation.”  In this concept, it is believed that before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Western countries insulted the Chinese people, occupied Chinese lands, and started the opium war. The reason for the opium war was the West’s complicity in getting the Chinese people hooked on opium.

Seen in this light, the current fentanyl exports are revenge for the opium trade and the opium war. Those who do this are not mafias or gangs, because Chinese society consists of only three segments: CCP members, CCP supporters, and captives. Just as there is no independent news and opinions in China, there are no independent movements — political or economic, legal or illegal. There is no way that the CCP would not know that fentanyl is going to Mexico.

Biden’s efforts to gain support from the CCP for the fentanyl issue is the same as assigning the thief to catch the thief and the murderer to investigate the murder. (READ MORE: On China, 1938 Munich Agreement Redux?)

An agenda that does not adhere to the standards of logic, no matter how bright its name or how big its goal, is a waste of time and resources. Therefore, Biden’s claiming to have or expecting to gain the cooperation of the CCP is stupid and crazy, and the costs will be with us for decades.