Don’t go wobbly on China, Mr. President

As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People’s Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America’s foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war? We should stop treating China with kid gloves – as a spirited economic or diplomatic competitor – and start treating it as the existential challenge to the American republic and the American way of life that it demonstrably is. And when the issue isn’t biological warfare, it’s information warfare – including the abundance of Chinese Communist Party-supported Confucius Institutes that have long proliferated as hubs of Chinese agitprop on American university campuses, as well as chronic attempts at corporate espionage and potentially vast surveillance and manipulation of Americans through TikTok and other means.

Author: Josh Hammer

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