The New Cold War with China

No one can say at what point you or any of us will begin to feel the direct effects of this new Cold War, only that, as tensions and hostile acts heighten, the consequences will prove harsh indeed. So cheer now, if you approve of measures already taken to isolate and punish Beijing, but think carefully before you embrace a full-blown Cold War with China and all that it will entail.

The New Cold War with China

A GOP senator’s cowardice shows how Republicans let Trump become a monster

A GOP senator’s cowardice shows how Republicans let Trump become a monster

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been trying to get Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify about his department’s annual budget for nearly a handful of months. But securing Pompeo’s testimony took on even greater significance after allegations recently surfaced that the department’s longtime inspector general had been axed by Donald Trump amid a probe he was conducting into potential Pompeo malfeasance. In fact, Trump himself made it crystal clear that he had fired department watchdog Steve Linick at Pompeo’s urging.

George Floyd situation shows America’s problems don’t lie with China

[Trump] claims China has cheated the U.S. out of millions of jobs, billions of dollars all the more. By waving the magic wand of “America First” or as Pompeo now likes to say “confront Communist tyranny,” the administration claims that aggressive foreign policies on the country can return everything “back to normal” and make all these issues go away.

But this is a grave and deeply misleading falsehood. In pursuing an all-embracing vilification of China, the White House and its supporters are deceiving the public as to not only what America’s true problems are, but what they always have been – that is that the United States is a deeply unequal and divided country with staggering levels of wealth inequality, structural racism and underwhelming poverty unprecedented within the developed world.

George Floyd situation shows America’s problems don’t lie with China