The idiosyncratic backdrop for this necessary reprioritization is, of course, a pandemic that likely represents the single-most disruptive global event since World War II - a pandemic that was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, in Chernobyl-like fashion, by the deceitful malefactors of the CCP. The early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak shined a bright spotlight upon China's troubling dominance of the global personal protective equipment market - a direct negative consequence of decades of neoliberalism and economic globalization run amok.
Further harrowing metrics abound: An astonishing 97 percent of all American antibiotics, and roughly half of the world's circuit boards, come from China.
In the nearly half-century that has followed President Nixon's famous 1972 visit to meet Chairman Mao, American elites of all stripes - with the ostensible imprimatur of a CCP willing to make risible pledges for good global citizenship - have abetted China's ascendance into the interconnected global economy.
The laundry list of nadirs include President George H.W. Bush's much-ballyhooed pronunciation of a "New World Order," then-Senator Joe Biden's helping to usher in most-favored-nation trading status and World Trade Organization membership for the People's Republic, and Senator Dianne Feinstein's going so far as to advocate de-linking that most-favored-nation trading status from the Communist regime's manifold human rights abuses, including the forced abortions and sterilizations that proliferated during the era of the repulsive one-child policy.
A bipartisan American consensus of neoliberalism run amok has helped create a vicious, domineering monster of a geopolitical arch-foe.
We see a menacing geopolitical power, already able to capture international institutions such as the World Health Organization, fixing its envious gaze upon Westernized outposts like Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The American people must make the ruling class pay for the harm it has wrought.
Further harrowing metrics abound: An astonishing 97 percent of all American antibiotics, and roughly half of the world's circuit boards, come from China.
In the nearly half-century that has followed President Nixon's famous 1972 visit to meet Chairman Mao, American elites of all stripes - with the ostensible imprimatur of a CCP willing to make risible pledges for good global citizenship - have abetted China's ascendance into the interconnected global economy.
The laundry list of nadirs include President George H.W. Bush's much-ballyhooed pronunciation of a "New World Order," then-Senator Joe Biden's helping to usher in most-favored-nation trading status and World Trade Organization membership for the People's Republic, and Senator Dianne Feinstein's going so far as to advocate de-linking that most-favored-nation trading status from the Communist regime's manifold human rights abuses, including the forced abortions and sterilizations that proliferated during the era of the repulsive one-child policy.
A bipartisan American consensus of neoliberalism run amok has helped create a vicious, domineering monster of a geopolitical arch-foe.
We see a menacing geopolitical power, already able to capture international institutions such as the World Health Organization, fixing its envious gaze upon Westernized outposts like Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The American people must make the ruling class pay for the harm it has wrought.
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