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Old 05-09-2020, 03:20 PM
 
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Whether you call it covid19, the Wuhan virus, coronavirus, the Xi Jinping batflu, or something else, this whole episode has been an eyeopening experience with regards to China.

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The coronavirus has helped us finally see China for what it is

Thanks to a tendency to project our own values onto other countries, many Americans mistakenly assumed that China would become more like us as it embraced a free market.

This assumption has guided U.S. policy through several administrations, despite growing evidence that China never had any such intention. Nothing says “reality check” like a deadly pandemic, a national quarantine, a collapsing global economy — and little or no cooperation from the country where the virus got its start.

The novel coronavirus has helped us and our international partners to finally see the communist nation's malign instincts. Though the virus originated in China, the government there denied U.S. officials access to essential health data or to reveal Patient Zero. It has yet to provide a live virus sample or allow outside investigators in. China also underplayed its infection and death rates, thus skewing data and handicapping researchers trying to solve the mystery of covid-19.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has proven to be as malign in its conduct as communists have routinely demonstrated themselves to be over the last century. This current group in China is no exception to the horrendous precedents established by their ideological forebearers.

As much as our establishment leaders hoped that the CCP would lead their nation towards global responsibility and harmony with the other people's and nations of the Earth as a result of being accepted as a member of the World Trade Organization and the other multinational groups and organizations, it is now clear that they have no such intentions. Quite the contrary in fact.

These people are focused on domination and control, first of their own people, but also of anyone else they can establish themselves over.

It is time to set some clear boundaries with China, and for a much more realistic and practical appraisal of "globalism," with emphasis on the actual effect and role of these multinational organizations and agreements.

It is time to straighten this relationship out and also the dysfunctional relations that have been naively developed as a result of subjecting US national interests to the oversight of these largely unaccountable multinational globalist organizations and agreements.
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Old 05-09-2020, 03:36 PM
 
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The entire world needs to ostracize China once the dust has settles.

The US needs to expel all Chinese nationals here on visas. When Chinese students come here to study, the CCP pressures them to try to steal trade secrets using money as an incentive. The same with those who come here on L1 and H1-B visas. We also need to stop any immigration from China to here.

After the Chinese brought in tanks and mowed down protesters in Tiananmen Square, I was really horrified that Old Man Bush renewed their "most favored nation" status.

We need to bring manufacturing back home --- especially manufacturing of PPEs. One of the reasons that China hid the severity of the virus until they couldn't anymore was so that they could hoard PPEs.
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Old 05-09-2020, 03:42 PM
 
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The entire world needs to ostracize China once the dust has settles.

The US needs to expel all Chinese nationals here on visas. When Chinese students come here to study, the CCP pressures them to try to steal trade secrets using money as an incentive. The same with those who come here on L1 and H1-B visas. We also need to stop any immigration from China to here.

After the Chinese brought in tanks and mowed down protesters in Tiananmen Square, I was really horrified that Old Man Bush renewed their "most favored nation" status.

We need to bring manufacturing back home --- especially manufacturing of PPEs. One of the reasons that China hid the severity of the virus until they couldn't anymore was so that they could hoard PPEs.
Presdient Trump has done a great job of clearing out the multinational trash in terms of canceling agreements like the Paris Climate Accords and the Iran Nuclear deal. He has refused to appoint a commissoner to the WTO (which Obama also did), effectively paralyzing the WTO court of appeals.

Now, as you appear to be suggesting, he needs to cancel China's "Most favored nation" trade status and he may need to take steps to permanently and radically alter the role of the WTO in world trade.
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