{"id":12767,"date":"2021-01-04T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:27:10","slug":"target-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/target-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Target: America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&nbsp;sounds giddy at the ending of the Trump presidency. Before COVID-19, it was locked in a likely lose\/lose trade war with the U.S. The American corporate world was finally starting to complain that its once easy profits in joint-ventures were now being gobbled up by an increasingly voracious China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Left, for all its hatred of Trump, nonetheless after 2017 grew more vocal over the Chinese gulags, the Tibetization of Hong Kong, and Beijing\u2019s Orwellian internal police state. Too many Chinese spies had popped up at the pinnacles of American power, whether erstwhile chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein\u2019s chauffer, or, as we now learn, House Intelligence Committee member Representative Eric Swalwell\u2019s something-or-other frequent associate, or among the Biden, Inc. clique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Trump the disrupter apparently gone for now, China is anxious to return to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-pandemic-china-beijing-becoming-authentically-belligerent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the prior global status quo<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 and its exemptions for systematic patent and copyright theft, dumping, currency manipulation, huge trade surpluses, and coerced technology appropriation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/target-america\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review China&nbsp;sounds giddy at the ending of the Trump presidency. Before COVID-19, it was locked in a likely lose\/lose trade war with the U.S. The American corporate world was finally starting to complain that its once easy profits in joint-ventures were now being gobbled up by an increasingly voracious China. 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