As China Exploits Our Weaknesses, Biden Diminishes Our Strengths
Members of Democrats Abroad in Shanghai celebrate as Joe Biden is sworn in as 46th President of the United States at a bar on Jan. 21, 2021 in Shanghai, China. (Hu Chengwei/Getty Images)
By Ziva Dahl
Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:36 AM
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"China is going to eat our lunch? Cmon, man! I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us."
If you laugh at this assessment, declared by then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, you wouldn’t be alone. Chinese President Xi Jinping got a real chuckle out of it, and Biden got Egg Foo Young on his face.
After the Chinese 16-minute dress-down of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the March Anchorage, Alaska meeting, clearly Xi has decided that the extreme internal divisions within the U.S. — the months-long riots, the defund-the-police movement and the promotion of divisive racial policies — demonstrate weakness and offer opportunities to exploit.
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