Joe Biden is relishing a fight with Trump over ChinaAmerican Thinker, Jun 7, 2019, Peter Skurkiss
Yes, you read that right. China Joe Biden is looking forward to squaring off with President Donald Trump on the question of the terms of trade with China. Biden staked out his position in Iowa last month, saying sarcastically, "China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. They're not competition for us." Continuing in that line of thought, this week, Biden blew off worries about China by telling a New Hampshire audience: "Our workers are literally three times as productive as workers ... in Asia. So what are we worried about?"
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To show that he's serious, the Biden campaign is doubling down on China. According to the South China Morning Post, Biden's top aides say their man's recent rhetoric on China's rise being overblown was not one of Biden's usual gaffes. "They say Biden relishes going to battle with Trump over China, certain that his message of confidence in America's might will prevail over Trump's alarmist rhetoric and tariff-driven trade war with Beijing."
This type of talk prompted Bernie Sanders to tweet, "It's wrong to pretend that China isn't one of our major economic competitors." That is putting it mildly.
There are two reasons for China Joe to take such a position, aside from him being stupid. First, he's defending his record. Biden claims he played a role "in a 2015 deal between China and the U.S. to curb cyber espionage on private companies, attacks that often saw China stealing trade secrets from U.S. firms." Biden's aides added that their man "helped persuade Xi [Jinping] that commercial spying was a separate issue from the more traditional, and more acceptable political espionage both government have long carried out." Only a cynic would ask how, then, China managed to steal hundreds of billions of dollars of American technology and intellectual property each year since Joe put his foot down. [...]
Incredibly, Biden believes that the Obama administration outsmarted the Chinese on a host of issues. And he thinks he has a special rapport with Chinese president (dictator) Xi Jinping.
As for the second reason why Biden is pooh-poohing the China threat, there's that sordid matter of Hunter Biden, Joe's son. [...]
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