How China ‘Woke’ America
By Victor Davis Hanson
October 3, 2019 6:30 AM
But did she wake up just in time or too late?
In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke†on China.
For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities and political dissidents.
Almost every assumption Washington made, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, was logically flawed at best. At worst, these calculations were a weird mix of conservative commercial greed, liberal political correctness, and shared screwball naïveté.
American trade and political appeasement were never interpreted by Beijing as magnanimity to be reciprocated, but always as weakness to be exploited. It was always ludicrous to think that the more concessions on trade and human rights the United States gave, the more China would Westernize and begin to resemble America or an EU nation.
more
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/china-economic-foreign-policy-threats-america-world/#slide-1
