Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times Sen. Vance (R-Ohio) on Thursday said China “experts” worry about a “clear inward-looking or even isolationist tendency” and an “aversion to economic globalization” that runs counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s orthodox ideology.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election, on Monday selected Vance as his running mate. Vance introduced himself to the nation in a speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday, repeatedly criticizing the policies supported by Trump’s rival, current President Joe Biden, of expanding trade with Communist China at the expense of American workers.
Vance, 39, is the first millennial to run for president on a major party ticket and made numerous references to his age during his speech, contrasting his life with the policies that an older Biden supported in the Senate at the time.
“When I was a sophomore in high school, Joe Biden gave China a sweet trade deal that destroyed more good, middle-class American manufacturing jobs,” Vance recalled, referring to China’s accession to the World Trade Organization and receive In 2000, it obtained “most-favored nation” trade status.
“Biden and other naive politicians in Washington put policies in place that flooded our country with cheap Chinese goods, cheap foreign labor, and, over the next few decades, lethal Chinese-made fentanyl,” Vance told the audience. “Many of the generation I grew up with couldn’t afford to spend more on groceries, gas or rent, and Joe Biden’s economic policies did just that, causing prices to soar and dreams to be shattered. Then China and the drug cartels pumped fentanyl across the border, adding an addictive edge to the heartache.”
Vance promised that he and Trump would “protect the wages of American workers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building a middle class at the expense of the American people.”
of Global Times Complained The Post called Vance’s promises “nothing more than platitudes” and accused him of having “limited foreign policy experience.” It warned that the vice presidential nominee was dangerously promoting “extreme misconceptions about China,” but said he should stop pursuing “win-win cooperation” with genocidal rogue nations.
“Vance’s speech clearly shows an inward-looking and closed-minded tendency, reflecting an aversion to economic globalization,” state media explained, citing “expert” Professor Diao Daming, a regular commentator for the paper. Times“Vance’s comments also suggest that some Republicans continue to push for continued strategic competition with China in a more pronounced confrontational manner.”
Another commonly cited Global Times “Expert” scholar Lu Xiang lamented that Vance was pushing for “an increasingly hardline stance to contain China.” He warned that confronting China’s vast array of threatening activities, from intellectual property theft to global manufacturing monopoly, genocide, slavery and colonization, would threaten “world peace and development.”
The outlet concluded by calling Vance an “Asia First” Republican for viewing China as America’s biggest geopolitical threat, rather than Russia, Islamic extremist groups or other threats. As a senator, Vance has repeatedly discouraged political leaders from viewing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a greater threat to American interests than the activities of the Chinese Communist Party. In an interview with Fox News this week, Vance said he hoped the invasion of Ukraine would “end quickly so that America can focus on the real problem, which is China.”
“That is the biggest threat to our country and we are totally distracted by it,” he lamented.
In March, Vance introduced legislation that would limit the Chinese government’s access to U.S. capital markets, telling Breitbart News at the time that if China “is not willing to play by our rules, then it should not be allowed access to our financial markets.”
China DailyAnother pro-China regime newspaper used this week’s Republican National Convention to attack the Republican Party more broadly for “hate speech,” “including against countries such as China, Russia, Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
“The use of McCarthyite-style hate speech against some countries and their leaders has unfortunately become a favorite sport of American politicians in their bid to win over more voters,” said columnist Chen Wei-hua. I have written “This is especially true at the time of the US presidential election, when candidates are trying to take a hard line,” he said in a column published on Friday.
“Hate speech from US political leaders is bringing the world closer to a new Cold War, or even a hot war,” he argued. “This should be a wake-up call not only for US leaders, government officials and politicians, but also for the international community, especially as US leaders use hate speech to demonize other countries in order to divide the world and strengthen US hegemony.”
Chen Weihua is best known in the United States for repeatedly calling Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) a “bitch” in a series of Twitter posts in 2020.
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