Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks (R) is sworn in for 2019.
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks said he often can’t sleep at night because he is so worried that the Biden administration might follow the Obama-era appeasement policy toward the Chinese Communist Party.
Banks made the comments Wednesday during an interview on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Company. He told show hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith that he has lost sleep many nights in recent days because he believes President Biden will revert to the policies he used during the Obama administration in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. He fears that under a Biden Administration, the Chinese Communist Party will re-emerge as a great threat to the United States.
Banks said, “We are regressing to an era. An era in which the United States sat in the back seat of the car, rather than in the driver’s seat, and pushed the international community to confront the Chinese Communist threat.” He also spoke of how “if the United States does this, it is abdicating its authority. In doing so we are allowing the Communist threat to continue to grow rather than confronting it, which is a dangerous trend.”
“In the first weeks of the Biden administration, I worried about this more than any other matter and thus could not sleep,” Banks continued.
Banks is currently a member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). He said the progress the U.S. has made in relations with China during the Trump presidency is being erased by Biden. “The Trump Administration is confronting the Chinese Communist Party directly, while the Biden administration would resort to more diplomatic appeasement.”
He also spoke of how “it’s clear that the Biden administration is treating the Chinese Communist Party more favorably than the Trump administration.” “President Trump, by the way, is the first president I’ve ever seen in my lifetime to see the Chinese Communist Party as a threat.”
“If you recall, one of President Trump’s first actions in 2017 was to draft the National Security Strategy (NSS). That strategy made clear that the Chinese Communist Party was identified as our primary competitor in the race against powerful forces. And that was 2017, and the situation was one where the Obama administration was appeasing the CCP on numerous levels. And Trump is taking over in that situation.”
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