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26 Mar, 19 tweets, 4 min read
While doddering Joe Biden rambles about using his super diplomacy skills to write a strongly worded letter about human rights to Beijing, China is using economic blackmail to force foreign companies to recant their objections to slave labor.

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Democrat foreign policy, especially Obama and Biden's, is all about announcing conferences and writing letters, never about taking aggressive action to protect America's interests. Holding a meeting and issuing a joint statement is the OBJECTIVE, not a means to an end.
There is never any real thought given to translating these Strongly Worded Letters into effective action against aggressive and brutal regimes. The summit photo op is the end of the story. Whatever happens in the real world is not the Democrat's fault.
See: Obama, Biden, and the "Arab Spring." Their Beautiful Theory was that democracy was blooming in the Arab world as ancient kleptocrats were knocked over. The reality was Islamist oppression, rising jihadism, and an objectively worse Middle East for American interests.
But, hey, Obama and Biden did "everything right." They checked all the boxes. They held meetings and gave flowery speeches. Just give them an award already, man, and stop hassling them about the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic State becoming regional superpowers.
Now this performative editorial-page bullshit approach to foreign policy is being turned against a global fascist superpower, and the results are like watching someone try to stop a tank with a styrofoam barrier. China is beating Biden and his team of boobs to a pulp.
Biden thinks he "wins" if he delivers rambling remarks to a half-dozen sycophantic reporters and gets a day of glowing praise in newspapers controlled by his political party. "We're gonna hold a conference and let China know they're accountable!" [reporters swoon and pass out]
China, meanwhile, is acting ruthlessly and effectively in its national interest. They're hunting down every foreign company that expressed concerns about slave labor in Xinjiang province and threatening them with destruction unless they recant.

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As for the Biden delusion about somehow defeating China in a battle on the op-ed pages, Beijing already has him checkmated there. The Chinese just have to keep throwing boilerplate Dem rhetoric about how much America sucks right into Biden's numb face. It's working BEAUTIFULLY.
That's all China's propaganda machine does now. Every time Biden or one of his empty suits says something about Chinese human rights, the Chinese coolly respond: What about Black Lives Matter? What about income inequality? Sexism, racism - you have no standing to criticize us!
I kid you not: when the Chinese were criticized for using boycotts to force companies to stop complaining about forced labor yesterday, they literally held up a picture of black slaves working in cotton fields and told America to shut up.

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They're doing this because they know Democrats are utterly helpless against it. They can't denounce their own party platform. They can't say anything that would contradict Critical Race Theory, or Marxist attacks on capitalism, or Abolish the Police - that's their whole ideology!
All they can do is what Biden and his empty suits have been reduced to muttering: yeah, America sucks, but at least we can admit we suck and try to learn from our mistakes, unlike you meanies in Beijing. It's disgusting. It's LUDICROUS. And the whole world is watching in horror.
Biden's whole America Last policy is based on taking no concrete actions in our national interest, because we have no right to, and his big donors don't want us to. His whole strategy is to posture as morally superior at flashy globalist confabs because America is selfless.
And China is EATING HIS LUNCH on that strategy, checkmating him with his own party's irresponsible rhetoric, while simultaneously demonstrating that it WILL take firm action to protect every single one of its national interests, without apology or hesitation.
Beijing is going to beat Biden at his silly globalist playground slap fight, AND they're acting ruthlessly to secure their real-world interests around the globe. Every wavering country - and perhaps more importantly, every multinational corporation - is watching and learning.
The hell of it is, Democrats understand the importance of "boots on the ground" real-world action when it comes to their war against the American middle class. That's why they opened the borders to unleash a tidal wave of migrants. It's a very Chinese strategy.
When Democrats make war on Middle America, they understand the importance of economic leverage, cold hard cash, warm bodies occupying territory, ruthless action to advance a selfish agenda, militant ideology, refusing to admit error - all the things China is doing.
But when it comes to defending America's interests on the world stage, we get China handling Democrats the same way Democrats handle Americans they hate - using their very own tactics and rhetoric against them, word for word. It's amazing and horrifying to watch. /end

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