An Inconvenient Truth
Shipwreckedcrew offers commentary on an Axios story from yesterday. It's certainly well worth reading--but with a caveat:
Trump Set to Expose Efforts of Chinese Government to Penetrate US Government and Public Institutions
Here's the gist of what the Axios article maintains:
If President Trump is not re-elected, he has no incentive to not make Joe Biden pay a price for the perfidy of himself, his family, and the Democratic Party with regard to the Chinese Communist Party.
Axios reported yesterday that sources within the Administration confirm that Pres. Trump will cement his legacy as having sounded the alarm about the malevolence of the Chinese regime in its attitude towards the United States by announcing a series of sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.
The announcement will be coupled with a report by Director of National Security John Ratcliffe calling on China to account for its record of human rights violations, espionage, and hegemonic intentions in East Asia and the Western Pacific Ocean.
He’ll try to make it politically untenable for the Biden administration to change course as China acts aggressively from India to Hong Kong to Taiwan, and the pandemic triggers a second global wave of shutdowns.
Watch for National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe to publicly describe in granular detail intelligence about China’s nefarious actions inside the U.S .
Details: Trump officials plan to sanction or restrict trade with more Chinese companies, government entities and officials for alleged complicity in human rights violations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, or threatening U.S. national security.
The administration also will crack down on China for its labor practices beyond Xinjiang forced labor camps.
But don’t expect big new moves on Taiwan or more closures of Chinese consulates in the U.S., officials say.
National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot told Axios, “Unless Beijing reverses course and becomes a responsible player on the global stage, future U.S. presidents will find it politically suicidal to reverse President Trump’s historic actions.”
But here's the inconvenient truth.
Regardless of whether Donald J. Trump won an historic landslide, the fact remains that a stunning number of US citizens don't really give a sh*t whether Joe Biden should be presumed to be for sale to the highest foreign bidders. A presumptive agent of foreign powers, including China. Even if that number of US citizen voters doesn't reach 50%, it's still an appalling percentage of the population. The evidence was there for all to see. And so many didn't care.