As the novel coronavirus wreaks havoc across the world, the Obama administration's ambassador to China has found a second lease on life as a pro-China talking head on regime propaganda outlets.
Former ambassador Max Baucus has given at least four different interviews to Chinese propaganda outlets in the last two weeks, repeatedly comparing the U.S. rhetoric about China to both the McCarthy era and Nazi Germany.
"Joe McCarthy [and] Adolf Hitler rallied people up, making people believe things that were really not true," Baucus said during a May 12 interview with China Global Television Network, a regime mouthpiece.
Since his retirement in 2017, Baucus has been a reliable critic of the Trump administration's increasingly confrontational China policy-chiefly the decision to wage a trade war with Beijing.
When the former ambassador compared President Donald Trump's criticism of China to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy during a May 6 interview with CNN, Chinese propaganda outlets quickly amplified Baucus's comments about how Trump was "a little bit like Hitler in the '30s" and that Americans were worried about "Getting their heads chopped off" if they voice their disagreement with the U.S. government's China policy.
" is somewhat reminiscent, nowhere close to that yet, somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy era and somewhat reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s," he told CGTN. The former ambassador also gave an exclusive interview to Global Times on May 14, where he said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that the virus may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory "Makes no sense" and accused both Democrats and Republicans of being tough on China to score political points in an election year.
Baucus again appeared on CGTN on May 15, where he claimed that America is "Sliding toward a form of McCarthyism" because the Trump administration is pressuring policymakers to be tough on China.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/obamas-man-in-china-now-beijings-man-in-washington/
Former ambassador Max Baucus has given at least four different interviews to Chinese propaganda outlets in the last two weeks, repeatedly comparing the U.S. rhetoric about China to both the McCarthy era and Nazi Germany.
"Joe McCarthy [and] Adolf Hitler rallied people up, making people believe things that were really not true," Baucus said during a May 12 interview with China Global Television Network, a regime mouthpiece.
Since his retirement in 2017, Baucus has been a reliable critic of the Trump administration's increasingly confrontational China policy-chiefly the decision to wage a trade war with Beijing.
When the former ambassador compared President Donald Trump's criticism of China to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy during a May 6 interview with CNN, Chinese propaganda outlets quickly amplified Baucus's comments about how Trump was "a little bit like Hitler in the '30s" and that Americans were worried about "Getting their heads chopped off" if they voice their disagreement with the U.S. government's China policy.
" is somewhat reminiscent, nowhere close to that yet, somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy era and somewhat reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s," he told CGTN. The former ambassador also gave an exclusive interview to Global Times on May 14, where he said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that the virus may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory "Makes no sense" and accused both Democrats and Republicans of being tough on China to score political points in an election year.
Baucus again appeared on CGTN on May 15, where he claimed that America is "Sliding toward a form of McCarthyism" because the Trump administration is pressuring policymakers to be tough on China.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/obamas-man-in-china-now-beijings-man-in-washington/
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