Should we be concerned about "the West exiting China?"



Senate Republicans investigating WHO and China's coronavirus response - NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-investigating-who-china-s-coronavirus-response-n1183976
Trump is planning to target China in a new thrust to win reelection as his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic has taken center stage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/powerup/2020/04/15/powerup-president-trump-targets-china-as-the-new-thrust-of-his-reelection-campaign/5e9666c088e0fa101a762f13/
On Monday, Trump reverted to using the term âWuhan virusâ to tie the global pandemic to a geographic location.
Sources confirmed that the campaign has recalibrated its message to focus on China in two ways: as the culprit of the global pandemic, and as a cudgel against Biden.
China bashing is a tried-and-true tactic from some politicians on both sides of the aisle.Â
But strategists doubt American voters will buy into Trump's blanket blame of China.
But strategists doubt American voters will buy into Trump's blanket blame of China.
While threat perceptions of China among the overall American public remained fairly stable, that was not true for Republicans. https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/blog/running-numbers/lcc/are-millennials-china-doves-or-china-hawks
The GOP is attempting to divert attention from the administrationâs heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/politics/trump-china-virus.html
Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China.
Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher.
Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher.
Republican political organizations have attacked Democrats whoâve defended the Chinese people or their leadership, in one case calling a Democratic House member a âChinese assetâ for his remarks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/trump-suggests-china-may-be-knowingly-responsible-for-virus
Pirro unhinged,
» Thousands sign up to US class action to sue China over coronavirus - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-20/coronavirus-china-sued-american-class-action-germany-sends-bill/12164106
A report released earlier this month by the far-right Henry Jackson Society argued that the G7 nations could sue China for 3.2 trillion pounds.
It claimed that Australia could file for more than $58 billion in damages.
It claimed that Australia could file for more than $58 billion in damages.
Apparently the Japanese embassy in London once paid the Henry Jackson Society 10,000 pounds monthly to smear China's reputation,
https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/2017-02/04/content_28095952.htm
https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/2017-02/04/content_28095952.htm
"It has become an abrasively right-wing forum with an anti-Muslim tinge, churning out polemical and superficial pieces that pander to a narrow readership of extreme Europhobic British Tories, hardline US Republicans and Israeli Likudniks."
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140124-alan-mendozas-putsch-in-the-henry-jackson-society/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140124-alan-mendozas-putsch-in-the-henry-jackson-society/
"The second factor is that there is absolutely no internal democracy in the HJS, nor any transparency or rules of procedure.
Sole power is held by one individual â Executive Director Alan Mendoza."
Sole power is held by one individual â Executive Director Alan Mendoza."
âIn the meantime, the United States would be wise to engage China without fear or frenzy. â https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/20/united-states-cant-ditch-china-yet-diplomacy/