This IS one thing that President Biden is going to have follow in Donald Trump stops…..
But…
Get tougher….
And that includes in the area of Trade whereto two countries are tied tougher …
The legislation also creates a new director of cybersecurity position to coordinate such activities government-wide, and establishes a plan to make the Defense Department less dependent on Chinese manufacturing, from microelectronics to face masks.
Congressional leaders rolled out the proposals late last week, as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned in a CBS News interviewof unprecedented “overt and covert” lobbying efforts by Beijing “to make sure that only laws that are favorable to China are passed” in the United States….
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Uniformed commanders and experts alike have noted that countering China will be one of the earliest and most important challenges for the Biden administration, as China’s rise has challenged the United States militarily, economically, and technologically. The defense bill attempts to reflect that with provisions encompassing not just the expansion of U.S. military assets to counter Beijing’s influence, but efforts to safeguard intellectual property, limit China’s access to World Bank assistance and even take a stand against human rights abuses in Hong Kong by denying law enforcement authorities there certain defense-related exports…..
Note….
Joe Biden WILL be able to work BETTER with the US Intelligence and Military communities that Trump never trusted….They do have a history and Biden is bringing in ‘old hands’ to run things for him…
He’s gonna need to patch up things Trump messed up….
image….Vice President Biden meets with American military personnel in Panmunjom, South Korea, in 2013. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
The World Needs to be tough on China…Despite Trump Knowing about the Virus in January/February and despite his removal of the on the ground virus hunters in China in 2019, China was aware of the Virus before January and definitely did its darnedest to hide the seriousness of the virus…But with no way of proving that outside of the testimony of a now dead doctor, there won’t be any real evidence implicating China in a major coverup…
But yes the US needs to be tough on China and shift its dependence to either back home or diversifying it’s manufacturing capacity in other countries…
Indeed Bdog….
Biden does have a full plate coming at him…