Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous.
Conventional Washington wisdom had assumed that an ascendant Beijing was almost preordained to world hegemony. Trump’s tariffs and polarization of China were considered about the worst thing an American president could do.
The accepted bipartisan strategy was to accommodate, not oppose, China’s growing power. The hope was that its newfound wealth and global influence would liberalize the ruling Communist government.
Four years later, only a naif believes that. Instead, there is an emerging consensus that China’s cutthroat violations of international norms were long ago overdue for an accounting.
China’s re-education camps, its Orwellian internal surveillance, its crackdown on Hong Kong democracy activists, and its secrecy about the deadly coronavirus outbreak have all convinced the world that China has now become a dangerous international outlier.
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Mr. Hanson, I am sure that you seen/read the act that is proposed by many democratic congressmen/women called "The New Way Forward, house bill 5383. Tucker Carlson has devoted much of his last two programs showing how destructive it will be for our country. We are very concerned that many do not know anything about it, as Mr. Carlson has stated. Is there any way that you can do an op-ed in any of the newspapers, telling how and what this act is, and how it will destroy America? I have called my local representatives, and my Senator. I have written to our local paper. One person is not going to do it. Your stature will help. Please get the word out. I believe that you have some op-eds in the Wall Street Journal. Please write one about this terrible act before it is passed. Thank you. We enjoy hearing you on Tucker Carlson by the way. And, I saw that you spoke at Hillsdale College in October.
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