In case you had any false hopes that their asset Joe Biden would lift a finger to prevent Chinese communists from snuffing out freedom in Taiwan the way they have in Hong Kong, Reuters lays them to rest:

A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own.

Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that Friday’s slide show by Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang caused consternation among U.S. officials after the map appeared in her video feed for about a minute.

The sources, who did not want to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the video feed showing Tang was cut during a panel discussion and replaced with audio only – at the behest of the White House.

Biden’s handlers didn’t want to contradict the ChiComs’ “One China” policy, according to which Taiwan is theirs and eligible for military conquest. They would prefer for us to pretend that Taiwan has already been conquered and is no longer an independent country.

The map was color-coded on the basis of liberty. Taiwan was green, because it is free. China was red, because it is an authoritarian slave state. The symbolism couldn’t be more graphic.

The source called the U.S. move an over-reaction as the map was not inherently about national boundaries, but the NSC was also angry as the slide had not appeared in “dry-run” versions of the presentation before the summit, raising questions as to whether there was intentional messaging by Tang and Taiwan.

Corrupt and cowardly is not a good combination in an American government. As Democrats bring the USA down, the rest of the free world is going with us.

Hat tip: Breitbart.