https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-trump-republicans.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently distributed a memo
with guidance on how to split this political baby: When discussing the
coronavirus, candidates should fully embrace the president’s efforts to
shift the blame fully onto China. But — and here’s the part that caught
Team Trump’s eye — “Don’t defend Trump.”
Prepared by a top
party strategist, the bulk of the 57-page memo provides tips, talking
points, timelines and background data geared toward making this crisis
All About China. The “Short Version” summary suggests condemning China
not only for causing the pandemic but also for stealing jobs, tossing
religious minorities in concentration camps and flooding the United
States with fentanyl. Democratic opponents are to be tarred as “soft on
China” and unwilling to “stand up to the Chinese Communist Party,” they
recommend, while Republicans vow to “bring our manufacturing jobs back
home” and to work to punish China with sanctions.
Sounds harsh but it's the reality.
ReplyDeleteTrump started a trade war because, for decades, soft American negotiators allowed the Chinese to flood the US market with cheap, defective products while keeping their market locked up tight. When Trump demanded parity, suddenly he was starting troubles.
China has been sending fentanyl and worse to the US for years. It's no secret that all their big technological and military advances have been the result of theft, not domestic research. The results have sometimes been devastating for North American companies when Chinese ones show up with the stolen tech at half the price. Ask Nortel if you don't believe me. They run a society that the Nazis, y"sh, would heartily approve of except that they don't persecute Jews. And after decades of sending us lead-tainted baby formulas, they now sent us CoVID.
It's not just America. All major Western countries need to stand up and say as a unit "China is evil, we don't want China around"
https://youtu.be/tSy8_Untr9A
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