Lucas: Biden working on his bowing to China

Joe Biden ought to present Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping with a box of Snickers when they meet at an Asian conference in Bangkok in November.

While the gift of candy bars would in no way represent an official U.S. makeup apology for Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan that so upset the Communist Chinese — or Sen. Eddie Markey’s follow-up visit — the Chinese would get the message.

It would be like Biden’s appeasement-like decision, bowing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by postponing the routine testing of the Minuteman III ballistic missile while China was threatening invasion and firing rockets off the coast of Taiwan.

The same is true of Biden’s Democrat-supported misnamed Inflation Act. Under the guise of dealing with climate change and renewable energy, the act is an economic windfall for the Chinese who control the world’s supply of scarce minerals such as lithium that goes into making batteries for electric cars.

No words were spoken, and no words were needed to be spoken because the message from Biden to the Chinese is clear.

And the message is that Joe Biden does not want to rock the boat with China because the “Big Guy” is just as beholden to the Communist zombies who run China as is Mars Wrigley, the giant U.S candy giant that makes Snickers.

Mars Wrigley, like many other U.S. companies, is dependent upon the Chinese for business. In addition to Snickers, it sells many other candy products like Twix, M & M’s, Lifesavers, Juicy Fruit, Milky Way, to name a few.

That is why the candy manufacturer — like so many other American firms doing business with China — was forced to apologize to the Chinese for referring to Taiwan in an advertisement as a country and not, at least in Communist Chinese eyes, as a breakaway Chinese province.

You play by their rules, or you do not play. So have a good chew, Xi.

Hardly had Mars Wrigley released a video saying that Snickers was available in the “countries” of South Korea and Malaysia and Taiwan, then the Chinese burst out in anger and demanded an apology.

Instead of snickering at the demand, Snickers, like many other American companies, folded. The candy company said, “Mars Wrigley respect China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity and conducts its business operations in strict compliance with local Chinese laws and regulations.”

The candy company is doing no different than what other U.S business interests are doing by sucking up to China, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s vow to overtake the U.S. as the world’s number one superpower.

American clothing companies like GAP, for instance, cannot even sell T-shirts in China unless it toes the line. GAP recently had to apologize for selling T-shirts with the image of China that did not include Taiwan.

Recall how the Houston Rockets of the NBA were forced to apologize after its general manager Daryl Morey supported the protestors in China’s premature takeover of Hong Kong.

In its apology to the Chinese, the NBA threw Morey under the bus, saying he “undoubtedly severely hurt the feelings of Chinese fans.”

No mention was made of the feelings of the Hong Kong protestors, however, many of whom were beaten, and arrested.

The Chinese Communists have used cash to infiltrate or buy their way into the U.S. media, Hollywood, the politicians, the banks, high-tech, the NBA, colleges, high tech and even farmland.

Hollywood today could not even make a film like the 1966 classic “The Sand Pebbles,” a film about a 1926 U.S. gunboat mission to rescue stranded American missionaries in war-torn China.

The stated intention of the CCP is not only to surpass the United States as the leading nation in the world, but to do so from within and without even firing a single shot. And Biden is their patsy.

How pathetic are we?

Jamie Dimon, the billionaire CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the biggest bank in the country, recently apologized to the Chines for making a joke while in Hong Kong about the bank outlasting the Chinese Communist Party.

After the Chinese went ballistic over the joke, Dimon apologized saying “I regret and should not have made that comment.” He added, “It’s never right to joke about or denigrate any group of people, whether it’s a country, its leadership or any part of a society and culture.”

Take that, China!

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.