Patriotism & Unity
Does America have the grit to combat China?
February 08, 2022 02:31 PM
By Hugo Gurdon
The United States and China are drawing up battle lines .
Washington and Beijing are rapidly putting economic and diplomatic earthworks in place and developing military weaponry for a confrontation that has already begun. We are staring it right in the face.
Superpower rivalry from China started to impinge seriously on U.S. public awareness only in recent years. But because this awareness is so new, it is difficult to gauge what U.S. responses could secure public support. These will also change as the tides of opinion ebb and flow, affected by a multitude of other political issues and events.
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Confronting China will involve Americans biting the hand that has been feeding them for decades. That is not an argument for avoiding conflict, but it is a measure of how painful the breach will be.
Just as Beijing has hooked a large number of blighted Americans on its illegal drug supplies, fentanyl in particular, so too has it hooked many more of us on its legal manufactures. Can we kick our Chinese retail habit?
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