Biden continuing Trump’s delusional China vendetta

One of the more disgusting of Trump’s myriad of disgusting policies was whipping up a Cold War with China.

He launched a trade war which mostly hurt, rather than helped Americans, while not addressing problematic Chinese practices.

He embarked on provocative aerial and naval maneuvers 8,000 miles from the Homeland to intimidate Chinese from violating American rules for Chinese foreign policy in their neighborhood.

He abandoned 6 decades of careful U.S. ‘One China’ policy to embrace Taiwanese independence from China; a policy that could lead to war.

Reprehensibly, he demonized China as the ‘other’ responsible for ‘Kung Flu’ (China virus), to divert attention from his catastrophic failures with pandemic that started in China. No wonder that hate crimes against Chinese and other Asians spiked here, prompting legislation to address in the Biden administration.

But sadly, that is the only plank in Trump’s anti-China vendetta Biden has embraced. He’s all in for continuing provocative military maneuvers in China’s neighborhood and flirting with possible war by encouraging Taiwan independence. Tho China will likely overtake the U.S. as No.1 economy this decade, Biden used his State of the Union speech to ludicrously declare ‘America, not China, will win the 21st century.’

Biden knows better that neither China nor the U.S. is an existential treat to the other. We’re the two biggest economies and military powers by a wide margin, dependent upon each other for a prosperous and peaceful future.

It’s not enough that Biden has dropped Trump’s hateful xenophobia against Chinese ‘otherness.’ He needs to drop the delusional belief there is room for only one superpower and that one is ‘Made In America’.

Regarding China we don’t need ‘Trump lite.’ We need diplomacy, common sense, and a willingness to share and nourish with China our common but endangered planet.