With just over two weeks to go before the U.S. election, the confrontation between the U.S. and China is intensifying, with President Trump’s trade advisor Navarro saying on Monday (Oct. 19) that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a multi-pronged offensive against the U.S., ranging from an economic war to enforce unfair trade to an information war to “attack the American political system.
In addition, the Communist Party’s virus has caused the United States lives and economic losses, and “the bill will come due someday. However, Navarro stressed that despite the escalating confrontation, there will be no hot war between the U.S. and China.
“Now I have to be very clear on one point, confronting the CCP does not mean going to war. That’s the last thing the Trump administration wants to do.”
Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing, noted in a speech on U.S. policy toward China delivered by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.
Navarro cited a series of moves during Trump’s presidency to pursue peace and avoid war, such as withdrawing troops from the Middle East and Afghanistan, promoting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, getting NATO allies to share more funding to confront Russia, and brokering peace agreements between the Middle East and Israel and between Kosovo and Serbia.
“Just as we don’t want to start a kinetic war with China, the surest thing China can do is not want to start a military conflict with the United States,” Navarro said.
To prove the point, he cited the Chinese saying in Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”: “To be victorious in a hundred battles is not to be good, but to subdue the enemy’s army without fighting is to be good.
The Chinese Communist Party’s information warfare attempts to “subjugate the enemy’s troops without fighting.
According to Navarro, “subjugation without a fight” is precisely the goal of the Chinese Communist Party, which wants to seize American wealth while avoiding a bullet.
As the countdown to the U.S. elections begins, social media sites are abuzz with talk of a possible hot war between the United States and China, and Beijing’s Zhongnanhai district is fueling the debate. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party’s top brass uncharacteristically held an event on October 19 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the “anti-American aid to the North,” calling the war, in which more than half a million Chinese soldiers were killed or wounded, a “great victory” and calling for “carrying forward the anti-American aid to the North. Spirit” “to defeat all powerful enemies.”
On October 8, former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger, known as one of the founding fathers of U.S.-China relations, said that if U.S. and Chinese leaders fail to define the boundaries beyond threats, “we will be in a situation similar to World War I.”
On October 19, the Hudson Institute titled Navarro’s speech “The Eight Deadly Sins of China’s Trade Policy”. Navarro’s “seven deadly sins” describe the economic warfare waged by the Chinese Communist Party against the United States: cyberattacks, forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, product dumping, subsidies to state-owned enterprises, currency manipulation, and the sale of fentanyl to the United States.
In this speech, Navarro focuses on the information warfare waged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying it “attacks our political system” and uses institutions like the United Nations to “promote the CCP’s quest for global dominance.
This information warfare, Navarro says, has allowed the CCP’s influence to permeate mainstream media, Hollywood, the high-tech base of Silicon Valley, the NBA, and universities in the United States, and has led to “the triumph of the CCP and the defeat of American democracy,” calling those Americans who are willing to accept the CCP’s influence “usefull idiots.
The U.S. Determined to Track Down the Source of the Pandemic and Hold Those Responsible
In his speech, Mr. Navarro re-emphasized the White House’s determination to identify the source of the neo-crown virus pandemic and to hold the Chinese authorities accountable. First, the American people need to know the source of the Chinese Communist virus,” he said. The Chinese Communist Party must stop hiding this information from the free world. And second, the American people want the Chinese Communist Party to take full responsibility for the trillions of dollars in losses and tragic loss of life in the United States as a result of this Chinese Communist virus. And that debt must come due someday.”
In response to a question from moderator Michael Pillsbury, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for China Strategy, about holding China accountable, Navarro said the total number of deaths and economic losses in the U.S. from the neo-coronavirus infection should equal four years of U.S. GDP, or about $20 trillion.
Navarro gave a new example of the Chinese Communist Party’s deliberate cover-up at the beginning of the epidemic. He said that on January 15, 2020, when Chinese Vice Premier Liu He led a trade delegation to the White House to sign the first phase of the U.S.-China trade agreement, “we now know, as was clear to the CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping at the time, and to other senior CCP officials, that a deadly virus was sweeping China and had the clear potential to cause a global pandemic through human-to-human transmission. “
Navarro recalled that the Chinese delegation “smiled at us, ate our food, shook our hands, and signed the first phase of the trade agreement,” without revealing anything about the new coronavirus epidemic, which “poses a clear and immediate danger to the United States and the world. “No potentially life-saving information was delivered to President Trump or anyone in the White House.”
“The silence of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party has resulted in serious danger to President Trump, Vice President Pence, and many senior White House officials and administrators,” Navarro noted.
On Oct. 2, President Trump and First Lady Melania tested positive for the new coronavirus. A week earlier (Sept. 26), Trump presided over a White House Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination of justices in which he, the first lady and many of the attendees were not wearing masks, and at least eight people later tested positive for the new crown. President Trump was hospitalized and released from the hospital after 72 hours of treatment. He has since said on several occasions that the White House follows health department guidelines and holds such meetings outdoors whenever possible, while he and his aides are regularly tested for the virus. Trump said in a town hall-style presidential debate last week that he was in favor of people wearing masks.
U.S. media reported in April that Navarro had warned in a January 29 memo to the National Security Council that the new coronavirus could kill 500,000 Americans and cause $6 trillion in economic damage, and that his February 23 memo to President Trump said the new coronavirus could infect 100 million Americans and kill between 1 and 2 million.
As of October 19, the cumulative number of people infected with the neo-coronavirus exceeded 40 million worldwide, with more than 8.1 million infected in the United States; the global death toll was 1.1 million, with more than 217,000 deaths in the United States.
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