The Chinese state newspaper Global Times described Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Thursday as possessing a “clear inward or insular tendency” that concerns Chinese “experts,” as well as an “aversion of economic globalization” that runs afoul of Chinese Communist Party orthodoxy.
At 39, Vance is the first member of the millennial generation to appear on a major party presidential ticket. He referred repeatedly to his age during his speech, contrasting his life to the policies the elderly Biden was supporting in the Senate at the time.
“When I was a sophomore in high school … Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle-class manufacturing jobs,” Vance recalled, referring to China joining to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and receiving “most favored nation” trade status in 2000.
Vance promised that he and Trump would “protect the wages of American workers — and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building their middle class on the backs of American citizens.”
The Global Times complained that Vance’s promises were “little more than a cliché” and disparaged the senator as having “limited experience in foreign policy.” The newspaper warned that the vice presidential nominee was dangerously promoting an “extreme misconception of China,” however, that he should abandon to pursue “win-win cooperation” with the genocidal rogue state.
“Vance’s speech displays a clear inward or insular tendency, reflecting his aversion to economic globalization,” the state outlet explained, citing “expert” Professor Diao Daming, a regular commentator for the Times. “Vance’s remarks also indicate that some Republicans continue to strongly advocate for the continuation of strategic competition with China, with a more pronounced confrontational stance.”
Another regularly cited Global Times “expert,” researcher Lü Xiang, lamented that Vance was promoting what is becoming an “increasingly intense … attitude towards containing China.” Lü warned that confronting China’s vast amount of threatening activity – from intellectual property theft to monopolization of global manufacturing to genocide, slavery, and colonization – would threaten “global peace and development.”
“That’s the biggest threat to our country, and we are completely distracted from it,” he lamented.
In March, Vance introduced a bill to limit Chinese government access to American capital markets, telling Breitbart News at the time that if China “doesn’t want to play by American rules, they shouldn’t be allowed access to our financial markets.”
China Daily, another Chinese regime newspaper, more broadly attacked Republicans for “hate speech” throughout the Republican National Convention this week, “including against countries such as China, Russia, Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
“The use of McCarthyist hate rhetoric against some countries and their leaders has sadly become a favorite sport for US politicians as they seek to attract more voters to their side,” columnist Chen Weihua wrote in a column published on Friday. “This is especially true during the US presidential campaign when candidates try to act tough.”
Chen Weihua is best known in the United States for repeatedly referring to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) as a “bitch” in a series of posts on Twitter in 2020.
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