Kowtowing To Communist China

Over the weekend, a Chinese warship came dangerously close to colliding with an American destroyer in the South China Sea. The U.S. and Canadian navies were conducting joint naval exercises in international waters when the vessel from the People’s Liberation Navy came within 150 yards of the U.S. destroyer, forcing it to reduce speed and change course to avoid a collision.

This incident follows on the heels of a Chinese fighter jet buzzing one of our reconnaissance planes over the South China Sea.

At the same time, news broke about suspected Chinese spies, posing as tourists, attempting to enter several U.S. military bases in Alaska. As you recall, Beijing’s spy balloon first crossed into U.S. territory over Alaska. If I were a resident of the Last Frontier state, I would be getting very nervous about these “probes” by communist China.

It remains to be seen how President Biden will respond to communist China’s latest provocations. In recent weeks, he secretly dispatched the director of the CIA to beg for more talks. It’s clear from the events in the South China Sea that he obviously failed to impress his Chinese counterparts. 

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) blasted Biden’s weakness, saying:

“Biden Administration officials should stop chasing after their Chinese communist counterparts like lovestruck teenagers. It’s embarrassing and it is pathetic. In fact, it projects weakness to China.”

Biden’s actions don’t work on a playground, much less on the world stage. When a bully knocks your hat off your head and you ask to talk it over, his next move is to punch you in the face!

That’s exactly what’s going on now, and as Shakespeare famously put it, “The whole world is a stage.” Everyone is watching. 

Foreign presidents and prime ministers get up every morning thinking first and foremost about how they can best protect their country and promote their interests. They make calculations based on what they are seeing around the world. 

And what they’re seeing right now is communist China walking all over America and pushing Biden around, while our military chiefs beg for talks like “lovestruck teenagers” only to be humiliated in the process.