Antony Blinken Begins ‘Farewell Trip’ to AsiaJohn Hayward 25 Jul 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to depart for a six-country tour of Asia on Thursday, an excursion China’s state-run Global Times snidely described as a “farewell trip,” as the administration of President Joe Biden slides into “garbage time.”
The use of “garbage time” to describe the current status of the Biden administration is interesting from a cultural standpoint because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially loathes the term and has been trying to discourage its own subjects from using it.
“Garbage time” refers to the dejected slog at the end of a basketball game when one team cannot possibly win. Unhappy Chinese young people are talking about living in the “garbage time” of history because their economy is deflating, their communist political leadership is calcified, and their future looks glum. Chinese censors have been working overtime to delete online articles and social media posts referring to “garbage time.”
The Global Times seemed to take a certain glee in blowing the garbage time whistle on Biden and Blinken — as if the Chinese Communist Party might cheer itself up by musing that America might be in worse shape than China.
The Global Times also took some pleasure from the notion that Blinken was taking one last tour of Asia before the doorknob of the 2024 presidential election hit him in the posterior and suggests America’s Asian allies take a long, hard look at U.S. political chaos:
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