Posted on 03/15/2021 7:30:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Before Covid upended everything, the US president upended relations with Beijing – without interest or ability to build anew
Lloyd Green Sun 14 Mar 2021 06.00 GMT
84 Covid-19 has left more than 530,000 Americans dead and China’s standing with the US at a historic low. Only Iran and North Korea fare worse. US opinion is no outlier. China’s reputation has taken a beating in Australia, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. Images of tanks rolling through Tiananmen Square in summer 1989 have been supplanted by Beijing stonewalling on the origins of the plague.
Lucky review: how Biden beat Trump – and doubters like Obama and Hillary Read more In Chaos Under Heaven, the Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin reminds us that under Xi Jinping, China halted the export of personal protective equipment made by US companies, sent defective PPE to the Netherlands and barred Australian beef exports after Canberra called for an inquiry into the genesis of Covid-19. In Rogin’s telling, China’s “mask diplomacy” was a blunt instrument, designed to still criticism abroad and sow fear at home.
Rogin delivers a needed modicum of clarity. Under the subtitle Trump, Xi and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, he lays out what the US and its allies got wrong about China over decades, strife within the Trump administration and personal financial conflicts that affected US policy. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump feature heavily. But Hunter and James Biden bear watching too.
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Thanks Eleutheria5. Another UK POS shill has spoken.
There are a lot of them these days, taking an unnatural and unhealthy interest in US politics, always one-sided. It’s like this Marple dame is some sort of a spotter for them, calling in artillery coordinates for hit pieces.
/bingo
Author Rogin is on Steve Bannon’s afternoon show right now- 3:47 PM, 15 Mar, 21
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