The news Friday was heavy on the failure of the trade talks between the U.S. and China. It looks like China might try to wait out the 2020 election season in hopes for someone more likely to give in to them. They surely watched intently as John Kerry and Barack Obama gave Iran everything Iran wanted. And China, hoping to be seen as merely an economic competitor, must have hoped they could get a deal in which China had to give up nothing.
So now we hear that Joe Biden is way ahead of the other Democrat contenders for the party nomination for president. Turns out Biden and China have their own sordid history of business deals.
So if one of the reasons we are supposed to dislike Donald Trump is that the Russians might have something with which to blackmail him, it should be noted that Biden probably carries as much baggage with China. But Democrats can turn on a dime. And anything bad they can say about a Republican will get barely a shrug, or at best, a "Republicans Pounce," if said about a Democrat.
------
2:05 PM 5/10/2019
Comments