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China, Xi is on the ballot.

A vote for Biden is a vote for China.



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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
China, Xi is on the ballot.

A vote for Biden is a vote for China.

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There is a stale debate in Washington over whether President Xi Jinping wants Trump or Biden to win November’s presidential elections, and might he tilt everything from trade decisions to intelligence operations to extract his preferred outcome.

China’s Xi casts his vote in U.S. elections. (Hint: it’s not for Trump or Biden)

The reality is that President Xi has already decided who he prefers to be the victor in our 2020 elections – and that would be China.

We’re in the systemic struggle of our age, and the U.S. democratic system is facing one of the great stress tests of its history without any certainty about the outcome. The situation is bound to get messier through the elections and, perhaps, far beyond.

The United States won its global role on the attractiveness of its values and the effectiveness of its institutions, charms that were tarnished even before the country’s worst-in-class performance in the face of coronavirus. Deaths this week in the U.S. hit a world record 233,437 while China is at 4,634, leaving allies around the world bewildered about their favorite superpower. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Chinese leaders are telling their global partners this confirms further that the United States is a declining leader with a faltering model. Beijing underscores the value of their brand of leadership, which focuses more on being at the center of global influence that on being atop the heap.

China remains busy, seizing opportunities wherever it senses America has left behind a global leadership vacuum worth filling. In the face of COVID-19, it has demonstrated a remarkable ability to multi-task. The evidence of that would fill volumes.

Chinese military leaders have said they’d like to make Taiwan their own by the time of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary in July of next year. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/08/us-taiwan-china-relations-stop-pa
ndering-coronavirus/

It will take a far more focused and consistent Washington, acting with greater cohesion alongside its global allies, to deter any such birthday aspirations.

More at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/china
s-xi-casts-his-vote-in-us-elections-hint-it-is-not-for-trump-or-biden/

The coronavirus pandemic has left governments in disarray and made planning even weeks ahead difficult. In Beijing this week, however, China's leaders met to set specific policy for much of the coming decade. Key goals that have been previewed in state media include a pivot away from GDP growth at all costs, cutting carbon emissions and achieving self-sufficiency in technology and science, amid increasing pressure from the United States on that front.

This kind of long-term planning is in contrast to the often flip-flopping nature of democracies, where promises and plans set in place by one government are vulnerable to being undone by the next -- a point often highlighted in Chinese state media to defend the legitimacy of Beijing's authoritarian system.

Few American presidents have put this into starker relief than Donald Trump, who upon taking office scrapped a major trade deal, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accord, and set about dismantling the Iran nuclear agreement, essentially reversing all the long-term policy established by the Obama administration.
www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/china-beijing-plenum-us-intl-hnk/index.htm
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