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Out of all the Democratic candidates Bloomberg was the only one who said that normal relations with China should *not* be contingent on "closing its internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups"

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Bloomberg is the only Democratic candidate who seems—like Trump—to have a soft spot for the worst authoritarian regimes. He refused, for example, to call Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dictator"

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Much has been written about Bloomberg's pretty bad record on domestic issues, but his foreign policy views are also legitimately frightening and completely contrary to everything the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for
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