To make China pay, engage America's allies and seize its assets around the world

In a previous Washington Examiner op-ed, I suggested we make China pay for the damages inflicted on the public by the communist dictatorship's negligence, deception, and ruthless misinformation after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. I called for President Trump to offset the astounding costs of the economic stimulus partially by using emergency powers to confiscate all of China’s $1.1 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds and freezing the remainder of its assets. To compound the impact of that proposal, China expert Gordon Chang suggests, we should engage our allies to isolate China economically. This effect would be even more devastating than going it alone. China wants to be the world’s only superpower by 2049. What they fear most, however, is encirclement. Knowing they messed up badly, Chinese leaders launched a massive propaganda effort to reframe the narrative, casting America as the villain and the Chinese Communist Party as the savior. But even in that, their incompetence and perhaps malevolence have shown forth, whether through their selling back of donated pandemic supplies to countries such as Italy or their peddling of defective testing kits to our NATO allies or their case numbers, dubious to the point of incredibility.

The diplomatic conditions are ripe to fight back by strengthening our bonds with the hardest-hit nations, particularly those that share mutual defense agreements with the United States. President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should invoke mutual defense provisions, such as Article 5 of the NATO treaty, to recruit our allies in this effort, particularly Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and India. Those allies will then be able to confiscate Chinese holdings, not just financial holdings, but also strategic ports around the world to which they lay claim, including so-called dual-use ports that have allowed China to project its naval power throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Many developing nations have been financially abused by China‘s “One Belt, One Road” strategy. The regime has loaned billions to developing nations in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, then seized their strategic ports and facilities once the debts came due. China’s negligence provides justification for those nations to fight back by reclaiming ownership of those strategic assets and canceling debts owed to China as compensation for coronavirus negligence. Collectively, we can isolate this evil regime just as we have isolated Iran and North Korea.

The mutual defense component of the NATO treaty is triggered by “an armed attack against one or more” NATO members. NATO has explicitly stated that this provision is not limited to conventional armed attacks but can also be triggered by biological and cyberattacks. Additionally, NATO member responses are not limited to armed responses but include any action a member “deems necessary” either “individually [or] in concert with” other NATO members. As a former computer science professor, I was on a major cybersecurity committee after 9/11, and the level of cyberattacks have increased exponentially since then, with China, North Korea, and Iran being the primary antagonists. In particular, the Chinese Communist Party, its subsidiaries, and its proxies are constantly engaged in cyberattacks. These cyberattacks alone provide ample justification for a robust response. Confiscating China’s assets around the world is more than justified by the damages their delays and deception have caused. We should also take further steps, individually and in concert with our allies and other nations suffering from the pandemic and its fallout, to divest ourselves of any investment in companies controlled by or closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party, especially those that are essentially espionage arms for intellectual property theft, such as Huawei and ZTE. Now is the time to turn the tables on the communist Chinese dictatorship and treat them like the “big boy” member of the international community they have long aspired to be. There should be a heavy price to pay when your negligence harms the entire world.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/to-make-china-pay-engage-americas-allies-and-seize-its-assets-around-the-world

New polling reveals Democratic Party’s woke paternalism

When a significant portion of a party’s voters are openly unhappy with the race of their nominee, that’s when you know that ideological rot has set in and corroded their worldview. Such is the sad state of the Democratic Party in 2020, amid its current infatuation with identity politics and the toxic dogma of intersectionality. A new survey from Pew Research finds that 41% of registered Democrats are “bothered” by the fact that their nominee, Joe Biden, is an older white male. In an interesting, if foreseeable twist, this regressive, discriminatory worldview is actually substantially more prevalent among white Democrats and voters with advanced degrees. A whopping 49% of white Democrats say they are bothered by the nominee’s race and sex, while just roughly 30% of black and Hispanic Democrats share this race-based concern. So, too, Pew reports that Democrats with advanced degrees are the subgroup most overwhelmingly unified in their racially hostile qualms, with almost 60% admitting to being bothered by their nominee’s demographics. Unsurprisingly, almost 75% of Democrats who back Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard professor who embodies your average woke academic perfectly, are upset about Biden’s race and sex.

What a sad worldview. Liberals and Democrats rightfully care about the history of racial injustice in this country, but they increasingly seem to have abandoned the goal of racial equality and a colorblind society in favor of a winner-take-all, regressive, and tokenistic approach to racial diversity. So, too, there’s something deeply paternalistic and likely offensive about white Democrats tut-tutting about the need for racial diversity, while most actual minority Democrat voters don’t seem to care about the nominee's race. After all, Biden is only the nominee because of black voters and the way they lifted his campaign, starting with the South Carolina primary. They have overwhelmingly backed him, a white male, since nearly day one of the campaign. But apparently white, well-educated Democrats think they know what’s best for minorities better than those silly, actual black Americans, or something.

Thankfully, most black and Hispanic Democrats still have their head screwed on straight. They’re likely more in touch with both the reality of race in America and with the problems facing real people, too much so to care about what woke boxes politicians check off. It seems that engaging in this sort of performative, anti-white virtue signaling, where the white liberal drones on about how appalling the lack of diversity in Democratic presidential politics is, is both a luxury reserved to the wealthy and an intellectually bankrupt virtue-signal. Look at me, I’m one of the good white people, it screams. I #checkmyprivilege, and I voted for Obama. Perhaps the identity-obsession among white, well-educated Democrats is a product of our university system, which has largely been consumed by this kind of madness. But regardless of its origin, this regressive approach to race cannot sustain itself much longer. The Democratic Party relies on minority voters for its base, and unless something changes, many will eventually drift elsewhere in hopes of being treated like an actual individual — not just a box on the census.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-polling-reveals-democratic-partys-woke-paternalism

‘Exhaustion’ and ‘attrition’ in military medical response to coronavirus as Defense Department discusses widespread testing

Reinforcements are arriving to relieve military medical personnel exposed to the coronavirus, while the nation defends the homeland from adversaries and envisions how to implement widespread testing, U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy told Pentagon reporters Tuesday. Force protection comes first, O’Shaughnessy said. With medical personnel being lost to “exhaustion of the force, the attrition to some degree,” the commander has already sent in reinforcements to the medical personnel deployed across a dozen states. “We’re flowing in additional assets just to give them enough redundancy,” he said, noting how additional personnel are providing troops with downtime while forward deployed. Northcom would not an entertain an end date for the coronavirus response. “We’re trying to set them up to be able to sustain their operations, and they can have a battle rhythm,” O’Shaughnessy said.

Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Army North, also briefed reporters Tuesday, noting she has visited military medical operations in seven states in the last 10 days. “It makes a difference when you can look folks in the eyeballs,” she said, noting its importance to morale. She also has closely monitored procedures for “donning and doffing,” or suiting up and removing personal protective equipment. Both leaders underscored how the coronavirus response was using tactics designed for chemical, biological radiation and nuclear hazard environments. “It is the same mindset, and it's the same sort of training,” Richardson said. “It's almost like deconing — the decontamination process that you go through, the steps of how you take off your PPE.” Troops will remain deployed “as long as necessary,” O’Shaughnessy added.

Among the daily coronavirus challenges facing Defense Secretary Mark Esper has been how to implement widespread testing of troops and the civilian population. Limited test production capacity and the need to protect the force are some of the considerations he has discussed with commanders, O’Shaughnessy told the Washington Examiner at Tuesday’s briefing. “These are discussions that were underway and that were very robust and mature with the secretary of defense and happening literally daily,” said O’Shaughnessy, who oversees some 50,000 deployed troops involved in the COVID-19 domestic response. O’Shaughnessy said he and Esper had discussed how to use a combination of testing and isolation to manage mission assurance as diagnostic testing improves. In recent days, test accuracy has been a problem for the military, with the Navy discovering “false negatives” of asymptomatic individuals. The general also described to the Washington Examiner how the Defense Department might be used to implement testing at a nationwide level. “One of the things we've already seen great success on is, for example, our National Guard and how the National Guard, under the authority of the governors, is able to be part of the state testing,” he said. “We see that continuing as we go forward and see more and more robust testing capacity available across the nation.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/exhaustion-and-attrition-in-military-medical-response-to-coronavirus-as-defense-department-discusses-widespread-testing

>>8875944

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>>8875987

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>>8876018

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>>8876082

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