Let the Presidential Debate on China Begin

2019-05-03

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The 1980 presidential election offered the American people a choice between Ronald Reagan’s clear-eyed and robust opposition to a dangerous Soviet Union or its appeasement and emboldening under Jimmy Carter’s policy of detente. Mr. Reagan drew heavily on the case for taking on the USSR – and for taking it down – made by the Committee on the Present Danger. Yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden signaled he intends to ignore the immense and growing...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The 1980 presidential election offered the American people a choice between Ronald Reagan’s clear-eyed and robust opposition to a dangerous Soviet Union or its appeasement and emboldening under Jimmy Carter’s policy of detente. Mr. Reagan drew heavily on the case for taking on the USSR – and for taking it down – made by the Committee on the Present Danger.

Yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden signaled he intends to ignore the immense and growing threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Worse yet, he would have us continue to enable it.

A meeting of the new Committee on the Present Danger: China yesterday offered the latest evidence of why President Trump has been right to recognize that threat –and to reject business-as-usual with Beijing, from which Mr. Biden’s family has profited handsomely.

Let the debate begin on China.

This is Frank Gaffney. Learn more at PresentDangerChina.org.

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