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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 07:58 AM Jun 2020

Biden seizes on Bolton book to hit Trump's record on China

Source: AP

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Bolton’s claim in an explosive new book that President Donald Trump urged China’s Xi Jinping to help him win reelection could undermine his campaign’s effort to portray Democratic rival Joe Biden as soft on Beijing.

Biden’s top aides moved quickly on Thursday to argue that it’s Trump who has taken a weak approach to the rising superpower. They seized on accusations from Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, that the president continually kowtowed to Xi and ignored human rights abuses while trying to get his foreign counterpart’s assistance with domestic politics.

“The Bolton allegations are just the most noxious and hateful cherry on top of a sundae that already existed here,” Ron Klain, a longtime Biden adviser, said in an interview. “We have seen for three years that Donald Trump has curried favor with authoritarian regimes that are willing to help him personally and politically.”

China already loomed large in the contest as Trump and Biden have traded accusations over corruption, geopolitical pandering and the president’s shifts in tone toward the country during the coronavirus pandemic, which ignited in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. But Bolton’s accusations intensified the debate with less than five months remaining until the election.



In this June 17, 2020, photo, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Darby, Pa. John Bolton's claims that President Donald Trump urged China’s Xi Jinping to help him win reelection is casting a renewed spotlight on a major front in the 2020 presidential campaign: the battle over who has been softer on Beijing. China already loomed large in the contest as Trump and Biden, have traded accusations over corruption, geopolitical pandering and the president’s wild shifts in tone toward the Asia superpower (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)


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Biden seizes on Bolton book to hit Trump's record on China (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2020 OP
Well this is one of the benefits of this information coming out now bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #1
Trump's original strategy of "China Lied to ME" NewJeffCT Jun 2020 #2
The book has potential to be used against the House and Senate Republicans cstanleytech Jun 2020 #3
Biden needs a good come back to, Bayard Jun 2020 #4
The Trade wars that where easy to win.... ace3csusm Jun 2020 #6
We need to hit him hard on this Dopers_Greed Jun 2020 #5
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #7

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
2. Trump's original strategy of "China Lied to ME"
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 09:31 AM
Jun 2020

was not really very wise IMHO

1) China lied about Tienenman Square and how many died there
2) China lied and covered up SARS
3) China actively censors and greatly limits the internet and does not allow free speech or assembly.

but, sure, Donny Dollhands was DUMB enough to believe them that THIS time they were being honest.

The reason we had a pandemic response team in China & a CDC liaison in Beijing was to prevent these sorts of lies.

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
3. The book has potential to be used against the House and Senate Republicans
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 10:17 AM
Jun 2020

and if done correctly it could provide good cannon fodder for the next 12 years if not longer to hammer the Republican party on.

Bayard

(21,806 posts)
4. Biden needs a good come back to,
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 11:11 AM
Jun 2020

What about the tariffs? (you know--the ones that devastated American farmers?)

ace3csusm

(969 posts)
6. The Trade wars that where easy to win....
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jun 2020

So winning is when you beg china to buy soybeans on the side...

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
5. We need to hit him hard on this
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 11:47 AM
Jun 2020

A pillar of his re-election strategy will be to blame China and claim that he alone can clean up the COVID fallout.

Right-wing online propaganda is already pushing hard that Biden as a shill for China.

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