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#Debates2020 China Watch — unpacking bipartisan support for an imperialist New Cold War on China

#1 : Trump hits Biden for criticizing his ban on flights from China in January, says "China is where the infection was coming from"

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#2: Discussing COVID-19, Biden once again touting that back in March that he "insisted we have boots on the ground in Wuhan" -- reflecting an imperialist demand for extraterritoriality while fanning flames of myth of Chinese cover-up

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#3 Trump deflecting from 200,000 COVID deaths in the US:

"It was China's fault, this never should have happened. You don't know how many people died in China. You don't know how many people died in Russia. They don't give you a real count."

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#4: Trump, random aside while discussing COVID-19 deaths and re-opening:

"200,000 lives is too much...It should have never happened, from China"

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#5: Biden hits Trump for bad trade deals with China: "He talks about art of the deal, China is talking about art of the steal"

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#6: Trump interrupting Biden, alludes to 2019 statement in which Biden supposedly downplayed China as a strategic threat: "You said, 'China's not going to each our lunch'"

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[Trump painting federal repression of mass uprisings in terms of war -- "We got back Seattle, we got back Minneapolis"]

A little Russophobia from Biden for good measure:

"I've gone head to head with Putin. He's Putin's puppy"

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#7 Trump hits the Biden family:

"Your son [Hunter] made a fortune from China and Moscow...Why was he given tens of millions of dollars?"

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#8 Trump attacking China on climate change:

"China sends up real dirt into the air."

That's verbatim.