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It has started: the left has realized that Trump is right about China!
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:33 am
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:33 am
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When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem. Trump had campaigned on an “America first” foreign policy, which after his victory was enshrined in the official National Security Strategy that his administration published in 2017. At the time, I served in the administration and orchestrated the writing of that document. In the years since, Trump has been criticized for supposedly overturning the post–World War II order and rejecting the role the United States has long played in the world. Amid a global pandemic, he’s being accused—on this site and elsewhere—of alienating allies, undercutting multinational cooperation, and causing America to fight the coronavirus alone.
And yet even as the current emergency has proved him right in fundamental ways—about China specifically and foreign policy more generally—many respectable people in the United States are letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and preferences of states.
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The coronavirus experience demonstrates that economic interaction does not occur in a vacuum of geopolitical competition. Dependence on China for crucial medical equipment throughout the pandemic has illuminated the dangers of a hyper-globalized economy. Experts had warned of American dependence on key drug ingredients from China. The Wall Street Journal has reported that China is the only maker of key ingredients for certain classes of drugs, including established antibiotics that treat a range of bacterial infections such as pneumonia. American reliance on Chinese suppliers for other pharmaceuticals and medical supplies is also worrisome. Americans should not depend on an authoritarian rival state for its citizens’ health—any more than the United States and other free and open societies should give Chinese companies, and by extension the Chinese Communist Party, control over communications infrastructure and sensitive personal data.
Many of President Trump’s critics in the foreign-policy community put great stock in the ability of multilateral and international organizations to constrain the misbehavior of China and other states. These organizations, at their best, promote concerted action against commonly recognized problems. But Trump’s critics tend to view them mainly in their idealized form and as the central instruments to solve global problems and advance values shared by all. In practice, though, how international organizations perform is profoundly influenced by power relationships among member states.
China’s leaders have become quite skillful at using these bodies to pursue their own interests. President Xi Jinping has made it a priority—as he put it in a 2018 speech—to “reform” and lead in the “global governance system,” viewing such efforts as integral to “building a modern, strong socialist country.” Despite its record of stealing patented technologies, China tried to lead the World Intellectual Property Organization, an effort thwarted by Washington. Chinese tech companies have also sought to induce the United Nations to adopt their facial-recognition and surveillance standards, to clear the way for the deployment of their technologies around the world.
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy challenged the assumption that international organizations are always driven by a common global good. China’s undue influence in key international organizations was evident most recently, when the World Health Organization hesitated to declare COVID-19 a public-health emergency of international concern. WHO officials amplified Chinese officials’ early claims that the virus posed no danger of human-to-human transmission. The head of the organization even congratulated China’s top leadership for its “openness to sharing information.” Apparently seeking to avoid Beijing’s wrath, the WHO refused to respond to Taiwan’s early concerns about human-to-human transmission of the virus outbreak in Wuhan.
If the ultra-liberal and one of the key epicenters for TDS can publish something that remotely criticizes the globalist world order and praises President Trump then it can only mean one of two things.
#1. The left is starting to wake up and accept the fact Trump was right and is still right.
#2. It's the end of the world and it does not matter if they admit that Trump was right.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:36 am to WeeWee
Funny how devastating things have to get before left-wing loons FINALLY figure it out.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:36 am to WeeWee
Even if it was the end of the world, they are never going to admit Trump was right, ever.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:39 am to WeeWee
The Globalist Left surrenders the moment that it admits that Trump's Movement is the way to go for the USA. The Left seeks to bring the Age of the Nation-State to an end. As such, any strong Nationalism being exercised by the strongest nation-state to ever exist, is a dangerous threat to the vision of the Globalist Left and is a severe impediment to the accomplishment of their objective.
That's why the leaders of the Globalist Left movement will suppress any voice on the Left who strays from the mantra that the Orange Man is Bad. The Left doesn't tolerate dissent or dissident voices, and such dissent will be suppressed.
But this is a very interesting article indeed, notwithstanding. But, China's allies here in the USA, i.e., the Democratic Party, are going to remain loyal and committed to China's desire to disrupt the Trump Admin and put him out of office immediately if not sooner. Whenever that happens and Dems can regain power, they will reinstate the Clinton-Obama policies WRT China, because they believe that the Globe will be better if the USA is weaker.
That's why the leaders of the Globalist Left movement will suppress any voice on the Left who strays from the mantra that the Orange Man is Bad. The Left doesn't tolerate dissent or dissident voices, and such dissent will be suppressed.
But this is a very interesting article indeed, notwithstanding. But, China's allies here in the USA, i.e., the Democratic Party, are going to remain loyal and committed to China's desire to disrupt the Trump Admin and put him out of office immediately if not sooner. Whenever that happens and Dems can regain power, they will reinstate the Clinton-Obama policies WRT China, because they believe that the Globe will be better if the USA is weaker.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 11:43 am
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:44 am to Champagne
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This post was edited on 1/12/21 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:44 am to KCT
quote:
Funny how devastating things have to get before left-wing loons FINALLY figure it out.
They don’t use logic often. They’re still not using logic. This is their emotional reaction.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:26 pm to Champagne
Except the patriots are organizing.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:37 pm to WeeWee
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:38 pm to WeeWee
It was written by a former member of the administration, hardly the left realizing anything.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 1:24 pm to musick
quote:Exactly.
Even if it was the end of the world, they are never going to admit Trump was right, ever.
They'll find a way around it somehow... something like:
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Trump's advisors turned out to be right this time... and in a rare deviation from his normal, irrational behavior pattern, the President actually listened to them on this one.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 1:28 pm to WeeWee
I've always agreed with Trump about China. And I completely support him in everything he does about this and anything necessary to bring back manufacturing. Anyone who opposes this hates the country IMO.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 1:45 pm to Champagne
To what degree has China become intertwined with Dem House and Senate members? Are any Senators and Congressmen/women doing the bidding of China?
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:36 pm to RJYH
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It was written by a former member of the administration, hardly the left realizing anything.
It was published by the Atlantic, not exactly known for expressing all viewpoints
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:43 pm to Champagne
Without massively successful Democrat vote fraud the Democrat Party wouldn’t exist!
Goes back to Civil War too!!!
Goes back to Civil War too!!!
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:44 pm to WeeWee
The lady who wrote that article is NADIA SCHADLOW. She is a Republican.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:44 pm to jlc05
It’s not just Democrats. China is doing business with Republicans too. They’re very cozy with McConnell
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:45 pm to KCT
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Funny how devastating things have to get before left-wing loons FINALLY figure it out.
Dan Bongino has a saying,” when you are in a foxhole in the heat of battle, you don’t care if the guy on the side of you cheated on his wife, all you care about is, if he can shoot and protect your back!”
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:47 pm to gthog61
quote:Read the hyperlinks of related stories. This was definitely an anomaly.
It was published by the Atlantic, not exactly known for expressing all viewpoints
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:53 pm to WeeWee
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The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy challenged the assumption that international organizations are always driven by a common global good.
EXACTLY. A big fricking lie. A country will go along with the bullshite as long as they get paid.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 3:07 pm to jlc05
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To what degree has China become intertwined with Dem House and Senate members? Are any Senators and Congressmen/women doing the bidding of China?
I would not rule out that scenario.
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