Joe Biden just hammered Trump on China. But there's more to be said.

[applegrove]

Joe Biden just hammered Trump on China. But there’s more to be said.

By Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/17/biden-just-hammered-trump-china-theres-more-say/?utm_source=reddit.com

"SNIP.....


Trump undid or undercut virtually all the programs and people that the Obama-Biden administration had put in place to prevent, detect or deal with a pandemic originating in China,” Blinken said.

Clearly, that contrast will feed into a big argument that will have to be engaged over who would better prepare us for future pandemics. And here, too, there will be more to say.

A crucial aspect of this will be making the case against Trump’s efforts to gut U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, which he’s undertaken in service of transparent blame-shifting and ludicrous performative nationalism, which (whatever WHO’s failures) is just insanity amid a global pandemic.

All this also provides an opening for Biden to vow to reassert an international leadership role for the United States on global health and to restate the case for reality-based multilateralism in the face of global problems — such as pandemics.

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[elleng]

1. SADLY, there's little reason for the world community to trust the United States again,

so 'an opening for Biden to vow to reassert an international leadership role for the United States on global health and to restate the case for reality-based multilateralism in the face of global problems — such as pandemics' may well be for naught.

[applegrove]

2. Speaking as a canadian we miss you. We would welcome Biden

with open arms. Family did a summer internship in Washington DC a few years ago. She was blown away by the professionalism and intellect of the people she met there. Those people who 'serve' the world have just been silenced. There are groups and aid agencies and government workers who are a treasure. And she's pretty bright herself.

[elleng]

3. I'm glad she met them/us;

I'm a retired Federal employee/bureaucrat, fortunately retired well before this crowd arrived.

[applegrove]

5. I know. It must be so frustrating and heartbreaking to see them think

businessmen can redo every bit of policy to suit their fancy or $$$$ and make the american people go into the slavery industry again.

[BGBD]

4. Biden

is a very respected figure internationally, and everyone who isn't a despot would be thrilled to know he was the one that was going to be in charge instead of Trump. Add to that he will have a strong Secretary of State, we will be reclaiming that roll quickly.