(02-10-2021, 05:04 PM)eriehiker Wrote:(02-10-2021, 02:01 PM)dfrecore Wrote: I didn't like Trump although I agreed with most of his policy decisions. He was/is 100% right on China, who will be the downfall of our democracy if we allow it.
I kind of think that China is almost a consensus position right now. The lack of transparency in that government is a big reason we have a worldwide pandemic right now. There was a recent Frontline episode on PBS that set out the whole thing. They embargoed the genetic blueprint for Covid until it spread wildly out of the country. I actually don't think that there is going to be much difference between the Trump and Biden policies on China. The only thing that I would say is that Trump had a pretty unpredictable quality in terms of military force placement. For example, he sent a cruiser off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands as a show of force related to a prisoner held in the islands. I feel that we really need to be efficient in our use of force because we need to maximize pressure against China. We also need to be consistent because it is kind of a Cold War scenario with China and both sides need to be clear and consistent with each other to avoid mistakes.
I certainly hope you're right here. China is certainly the world's biggest threat, and everyone needs to recognize it. Trump did some good in calling them out, and saying we needed to move more manufacturing, especially of our medicines, back to the US for homeland security reasons. We do NOT want to be dependent upon China when the next pandemic comes around (or as a diabetic, I don't want to be dependent on them to get my insulin).
We also need to do more projects like the Keystone Pipeline, to be energy independent. The more energy we can produce ourselves, the better off everyone in the world is. China dominates the world Lithium production, which is needed to make batteries, so our chances of moving entirely to wind/solar/green energy puts us squarely back in their sights. We need to find ways to stay independent of China (this is not to say that we can't move towards green energy, but we certainly shouldn't put ourselves under China's thumb to do so).
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