On China, Trump Tried To Save Washington From Itself.

[Right_in_Virginia]

On China, Trump Tried To Save Washington From Itself.
National Pulse, Feb 20, 2021, Dr. Bradley Thayer

From the George H.W. Bush administration, through Clinton, George
W. Bush, and Obama, the simple and stark fact is that our national
security leaders failed the American people.

The growth of the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) occurred over decades and was not identified, let alone countered by U.S. strategists.

Man-made Decline.

The PRC’s growth was supported by these administrations, as an endless source of inexpensive manufacturing labor. Its considerable economic growth in the 1990s greatly accelerated once Beijing was admitted into World Trade Organization (WTO).

The PRC prospered more rapidly than any country before—moving from dire poverty to economic superpower in a generation.

The rapidity of the PRC economic and military growth should have alarmed the American government and people and compelled a response against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

That this did not occur is, first, a massive failure in American grand strategy; second, it is an indictment of each of these administrations and the American national security community for failing to notice what was in front of their noses—year after year.

Regrettably, in a historically unprecedented act, the U.S. contributed mightily to the creation of its most formidable peer competitor. It is both shocking and reprehensible that U.S. decision-makers labored to create this challenger.

Warnings of this adverse change in the balance of power were not heeded by U.S. decision-makers.

To the contrary, too many in Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley pursued policies that emphasized cooperation, bringing China into the international order and fostering its growth so that it would become a “responsible stakeholder.”



Trump changed this.

The Trump Administration awakened the American people and government bureaucracy to the threat from the PRC. It also implemented a response, which yielded major accomplishments.

Along Came Trump.


Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/on-china-trump-tried-to-stop-decline/

[Right_in_Virginia]

Good read.

[Sled Dog]

It was all about the money.

The money the corporations were making, and the money the corporations were shifting to the politicians to pursue a policy favorable to the corporations at the expense of US national security and US middle-class jobs.

Which is also the reason the nation actively promoted the illegal alien invasion and the H1B visa scams.