China Controversy

 

March 20, 2021

China Controversy

 

When Donald Trump first took office in 2017, he made it his mission to restore the United States as the rightful leader of the free world. He visited countries we are allied with and strengthened those ties. His enemies will say he put pressure on our allies and although that is true, it was pressure for them to do the right thing as regards to our mutual concerns and for the most part, his efforts were rewarded with our allies being in agreement with us and supporting us. Nato was displeased that he threatened to withdraw unless they began to pay their fair share finally. Presto, they began paying their fair share! The multi national agreement known as Nafta was dismantled in favor of a more evenly drawn agreement, one in which the US wasn’t paying far and away more than our neighbors, and a more equitable agreement was reached. We had a new agreement with Mexico to slow down the illegal immigration into the US and it greatly slowed that flow. One of the largest Foreign Policy achievements for Trump was his China policy. Through strong trade talks and sanctions, (which forced China to renegotiate), the trade imbalance with China was addressed. Far more importantly was Trumps clarion call to the realization that China was strategically positioning itself to become the dominant nation on Earth, with agreements with ALL of the US’ adversaries: Venezuela, North Korea, Iran and others. Trump also spread his attention to Russia and expelled diplamats (who were in actuality clandestine intelligence officers trained by Chi-com intelligenc e services), and closed Russian and Chinese consulates here in the US and expelled some if not all of the ‘diplomats’.

The Swagger is Gone

This week, the Biden Administration met with Chinese diplomats in Alaska and it did not go well. Termed by our suspect media as “Fundamentally At Odds”, the Chi-com delegation made loud, defensive arguments and left the meeting with “somber words” and no policies agreed upon. From the start, Chinese diplomats asserted that they have been treated unfairly and if the new administration retains the previous admin’s policies, there would be less and less to agree on. Most news reports suggest the Chinese are playing hardball with the US, in hopes Biden will not be as tough a nut to crack as Trump was. Clearly, we do not walk into these meetings with the same swagger that Team Trump did. Suffice to say our expectations of success in these meeting must be greatly reduced. 

 

-katykarter