He said the U.S. must stop projecting weakness.
Sen. Tom Cotton arrives for a closed briefing at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 14, 2023. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoSen. Tom Cotton took a shot at Biden administration officials for their efforts to meet with Chinese officials, comparing them to “lovestruck teenagers.”
“Biden administration officials should stop chasing after their Chinese communist counterparts like lovestruck teenagers. It’s embarrassing and it’s pathetic,” Cotton said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” when asked about Defense Secretaryshook hands at a dinner Friday — an unexpected greeting, after China rejected a U.S. request for a meeting during the annual defense and security forum that Austin had traveled to Singapore for.
The handshake and the meeting request were both part of a U.S. effort to smooth tensions with China, which have long simmered but reached a boiling point in recent months after a Chinese spy balloon was spotted flying over the U.S. Those tensions were evident again after aBut Cotton believes those efforts “project weakness to China,” he said.
“It encourages them to do things like buzz our aircrafts or come within a few hundred yards of our ships. It encourages them to send spy balloons floating all across America,” he said.
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