OPINION:
During my four years in the White House, I witnessed President Donald Trump deftly negotiate with the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on critical issues ranging from unfair trade and Taiwan to the slaughter of Americans by Made in China products and drugs. My key takeaway: Negotiations only serve Communist Chinese interests because the dictator Xi simply cannot be trusted.
No matter what Mr. Xi has promised Joe Biden, Communist China (ChiCom) will continue to ship massive amounts of chemicals used by Mexican cartels not just to manufacture fentanyl. ChiCom factories will also provide the poisons needed to produce everything from cocaine and heroin to ecstasy and methamphetamine. Americans will continue to die by the tens of thousands, decimating our youth and sapping our workforce. This all is according to China’s unrestricted warfare plan – and all without Mr. Biden’s pushback.
No matter what Mr. Xi has pledged, Communist China will likewise continue to flood U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products. Many will be manufactured with stolen intellectual property. As our trade deficit grows, American consumers will thereby fund the Chinese military while transferring exorbitant sums of American wealth and capital to the Communist mainland.
No matter what assurances Mr. Xi has given, his increasingly massive military forces will eventually invade Taiwan. This invasion is inevitable without strong U.S. leadership and a combat-ready US military – we have neither under Mr. Biden’s rule.
Left undiscussed at the summit were repeated ChiCom attacks on Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The territorial waters and air spaces of these important American allies are now regularly invaded by China’s rapidly growing navy and air force – Biden simply doesn’t care.
On the climate change front, Communist China will continue to rapidly swell its carbon footprint through the equally rapid construction of new coal-fired power plants. Meanwhile, Xi and his advisers will laugh as Mr. Biden’s Green New Deal chokes our economy, neutralizes America’s massive advantage in oil production, and once again makes America easy prey for Saudi and OPEC price-gouging.
One alleged “victory” hailed by Mr. Biden was a joint pledge to improve military-to-military communications. Such mil-to-mil channels will not stop ChiCom subs from stalking American aircraft carriers or ChiCom planes from harassing American aircraft in international air space.
As for the well-known ChiCom abuses against Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Christians, that beat – and all of the beatings – will go on. Support for human rights in Biden’s America apparently stops at the Pacific water’s edge.
As I faced off with Chinese negotiators in Mar-a-Lago, Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Washington, this, too, became clear: Communist China’s strategy to conquer America without firing a shot centers on tying us down in endless negotiations.
From Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan to the Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, the ChiComs have learned that if they can just keep the White House TALKING, America’s presidents won’t DO anything.
That’s why Mr. Xi hated Mr. Trump. Negotiations never stopped Mr. Trump from walking his tough talk; most famously, he did not hesitate to impose stiff tariffs when Mr. Xi refused to cease China’s unfair trade practices.
That’s why Mr. Xi and his Communist cronies did everything possible to defeat Trump at the polls in 2020. Whether that “everything” included infecting America with a deadly virus remains an open question.
My biggest disappointment in serving this country was my failure to gain West Wing support for an executive order that would have gotten to the bottom of Communist China’s role in the pandemic. The order would have determined whether the release of the COVID-19 virus from the Wuhan lab was an accident or possibly intentional. That order would also have held Communist China financially accountable for the trillions of dollars in damages that the virus did to the United States economy and our people.
Predictably, the Wuhan bioweapons lab virus never came up at the Xi-Biden summit. This lacuna brings to mind the last words in my 2011 Death By China film uttered by former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: “China has been treating us like fools. And that’s because we have been fools.”
Biden has been Xi Jinping’s fool since his days as Vice President. Now, Mr. Xi has flown home with a massive propaganda victory at a time when he is struggling with a sagging economy and an increasingly restive population.
Finally, were you as disgusted as I by the standing ovations given to Mr. Xi by America’s corporate elites? Fanboys included Elon Musk, with his massive Tesla sweatshop in Shanghai, and Apple’s Tim Cook — 95% of all AirPods, iPads, iPhones, and Macs are Made in Communist China.
Also in kowtowing attendance were Nike’s Executive Chairman and the top dogs at Pfizer, Qualcomm, and Mastercard. Meanwhile, two of the most treacherous unregistered ChiCom lobbyists during my Trump years, Black Rock’s Larry Fink and Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, broke bread at the head table.
We’ll see if these useful idiots of the Chinese Communist Party still wildly applaud after Communist China invades Taiwan and Xi confiscates all their factories and investment capital.
• Peter Navarro served in the Trump White House as manufacturing czar and chief China strategist. Follow Peter at http://peternavarro.substack.com, where this article originally appeared.
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