The new Cold War between the United States and China is a
zero-sum game, which will only be resolved when one system decisively
triumphs over the other.
The New York Times on Monday published a 3,100-word story headlined
“Joe Biden’s China Journey.” The three reporters whose bylines appear
on the article engage in a painfully obvious effort to explain away the
former vice president’s long and cozy relationship with communist China.
Now, at long last, they suggest, Biden is ready to get really tough on
China. Tougher even than Trump.
Good luck to them selling that fractured fairy tale.
Biden has appeased China and advanced
its interests for as long as I’ve been paying attention to China
policy, which is to say since shortly after the Democratic presidential
nominee arrived in Washington, D.C., nearly a half-century ago and I
arrived in Hong Kong with the Seventh Fleet. American workers have paid a
heavy price for the combination of naïveté and greed that has driven
Biden’s views about China over the decades. The naïveté came first, of
course. The greed came later.
In the 1990s, Biden pushed for and
voted repeatedly to protect China’s “most-favored-nation” trade status,
which ensured that cheap Chinese-made goods would flood America’s
big-box stores. Even worse, he championed China’s entry into the World
Trade Organization under terms that heavily favored the Communist giant.
This blunder cost the United States 60,000 factories and 3.5 million
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