China apologists.

US President Joe Biden has launched "what Edward Luce of the Financial Times has appropriately called 'a full-blown war on China'," wrote Harvard Prof Dani Rodrik. "The US already controls the most critical nodes of the global semi-conductor supply chain, including 'chokepoints' such as advanced chip research and design." "The approach is motivated by the view that China poses a significant threat to the US." "America faces a two-front ideological battle: one at home and one abroad," wrote Rebeccah Heinrichs. "Across the battlefield abroad sits the Chinese Communist Party, waging information warfare dedicated to convincing the world that America is immoral and incompetent to the core." And, "Americans are fighting among themselves about whether this country and the global order it leads is worth defending." "Elites who hold to this revolutionary framework tell us that math is racist, that the natural family and gender binary are oppressive and bigoted." In the midterm elections this month, the Democrats retained control of the Senate, with one seat still to be decided, while the Republicans managed to reach majority figure of 218 in the House with 5 seats still to declare. Reuters. The results seem to be making the divisions between Democrats and Republicans even more bitter. "An independent lawyer has been appointed to oversee the US justice department's criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump. Jack Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, was named special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland." Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Barack Obama but the Republican majority in the Senate refused to confirm his appointment. wikipedia. Eventually, Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch to the vacancy. It would be no surprise if he is bitter and vindictive. It was Trump who first broke US delusions on China. Trump started by applying tariffs on more than two-thirds of Chinese imports. CNBC. Gen HR McMaster, national security adviser under Donald Trump wrote, "The US and other liberal democracies were slow to let go of the hope that China, having been welcomed into the international system, would play by the rules. The Trump administration turned the assumptions that underpinned China policy on their head." Some feared that a Thucydides Trap may lead to war, "But we concluded this was a false choice: complacency would make conflict more likely; an emboldened China would become more aggressive and less cooperative." Trump's objectives all failed, but it "has had unparalleled success with tarnishing China's image in the US", rued Bloomberg. US policies "must be clearly linked to the damage inflicted by the other side's policies and intended solely to mitigate those policies' negative effects," wrote Rodrik. How will Rodrik mitigate the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers brutally murdered in an unprovoked attack by Chinese thugs in Galwan Valley in June 2020? BBC. In December 2021, a Harvard professor was convicted of taking money from China and filing false income tax returns. justice.gov. The US seems full of apologists for China. Maybe that is why the hounding of Trump.