Discussing Biden's Potential China Policy

[Gatekeeper]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1326225961738772491

W T F?

Did he do this to excite Trump's base for Georgia runoff election?

Lol. John Bolton remarks on the big fat lier are priceless. Keep your friends close. Keep your enemy closer.

 

[caudaceus]

Lol. John Bolton remarks on the big fat lier are priceless. Keep your friends close. Keep your enemy closer.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1326582239854026754

Infighting already?
Anyway AFAIK O'Brien is a careerist bureaucrat, wtf he joined the Trumpist game?

 

[hashtagpls]

Lol. John Bolton remarks on the big fat lier are priceless. Keep your friends close. Keep your enemy closer.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1326582239854026754

Infighting already?
Anyway AFAIK O'Brien is a careerist bureaucrat, wtf he joined the Trumpist game?

Pompeo belongs to the Tea Party faction that also propelled Trump into power; Mr walrus whiskers aka john bolton belongs to the Establishment pro israeli faction that would naturally be just fine with a Biden Democrat Presidency.

 

[Farooq Rashid But]

U

US politicians speak with forked tongue. What US Presidents say publicly is different from what they say privately. That's how a democracy works. With Trump he's probably saying what he thinks publicly. In the past I always read about how there seems to be an agreement between China and the US that the US is going to be loud about China publicly and China should not take it seriously hence why there are contradictions between what the US says publicly and what policy actually is. Politicians in Congress know they can write legislation knowing full well it's not going to pass but they have to give a show to their constituencies at home and say they did this or they that. Yeah candidate Bill Clinton was going to hold China on human rights and he did nothing serious when President. Before Trump remember how all Americans were for slapping tariffs on China thinking China was going to pay. Now with Trump they speak the truth and it's American that pay. I suspect it will slowly go back to believing China pays the tariff for rhetoric to Americans and Congress will do nothing like usual. They're worried about how much Trump has damaged the US's democratic reputation. Well it doesn't help when they're okay with their two-faced image publicly versus privately.

What will Beijing do? Are they going to go along with this ruse like before? These lies are why when someone like Trump comes along who believes all the lies about trade from the US government and when he's President he acts on it. Beijing wants respect but they go along to be in a position to be disrespected.

US politics and policies are v controversial , hard to understand what they will do next ad when they take U turn

 

[Gatekeeper]

Pompeo belongs to the Tea Party faction that also propelled Trump into power; Mr walrus whiskers aka john bolton belongs to the Establishment pro israeli faction that would naturally be just fine with a Biden Democrat Presidency.

So another extreme right wing nut job then.

 

[hashtagpls]

So another extreme right wing nut job then.

Yep, the fact that so many career diplomats resigned when Pompeo took charge should be testament to how fucked US diplomacy became when insane right wing christian fundamentalist politics took sway. Having this fucker in charge of the nuclear football would be as if ISIS acquired the nukes and the means to launch them.

 

[Skywatcher]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1326582239854026754

Infighting already?
Anyway AFAIK O'Brien is a careerist bureaucrat, wtf he joined the Trumpist game?

Stick a knife in Pompeo's back? Pompeo acting like he owns the entire national security apparatus has not endeared him to some people inside the Beltway.

 

[SPOOPYSKELETON]

I do not believe American observers fully appreciate the contempt with which Barack Obama and Joe Biden are held by China hawks in the military.

At the Pentagon, the Obama/Biden team was seen as a dithering and appeasing across the board from Ukraine to Syria to East Asia.

Only a strong and commanding hand—first Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and then, after her departure, Ash Carter as Secretary of Defense—was seen as keeping the Obama administration focused on properly employing, protecting, and expanding America’s military power.

The public scapegoat for the insufficient muscularity of Obama/Biden foreign policy was Chuck Hagel., Secretary of Defense from 2013 to 2015.

Chuck Hagel was and remains a close personal friend of Joe Biden.

Biden as Vice President was a key player in pushing Hagel for the Secretary of Defense job. He personally shepherded Hagel’s bitterly opposed nomination through Senate confirmation over a storm of objections from both within the Obama White House, the Pentagon, and Congress.

After Hagel was pushed out amid ferocious back-hatcheting from Susan Rice and her group--and studied silence from Barack Obama--Hagel and Biden remained close.

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@chinahand on Twitter makes a good case for Biden being less hawkish on China. Patreon is worth it imo.

 

[gelgoog]

Isn't Bolton the one who tried to sell nuclear disarmament to North Korea pointing to the Libyan model?
Pompeo is a thug but he isn't a buffoon like Bolton.

 

[timepass]

When Cuban President Castro was asked about the US elections in 1960, which would you prefer Nixon or Kennedy?

He answered: It is not possible to make a comparison between two shoes that the same person wears.

America is ruled by only one party, which is the Zionist party, and it has two wings:

The republican wing represents the hard-line Zionist power, and the Democratic wing represents the Zionist soft power

There is no difference in goals and strategies. As for the means and tools, they differ slightly to give each president a kind of privacy and space for movement.