{"id":386580,"date":"2021-03-15T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=386580"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:36:17","slug":"rush-trump-got-it-china-takes-advantage-of-americas-superpower-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/15\/rush-trump-got-it-china-takes-advantage-of-americas-superpower-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush & Trump Got It: China Takes Advantage of America\u2019s Superpower Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: What never ceases to amaze me when you look at the challenges out there in the world is how right on Rush has been on the domestic policy front, but also on the policy front involving the rest of the world and how it is the United States is viewed by some of our more hostile partners, enemies, whatever you want to call these folks.<\/p>\n

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Well, in the case of China, I think it\u2019s pretty clear where we stand with China, but it\u2019s not so clear why we stand as a nation looking towards China. Because once upon a time you had a very robust — a very strong, muscular — approach towards the Chinese come to a stop there in Beijing. And then along came President Biden, who has repeated oftentimes that he doesn\u2019t view China as an adversary or as an enemy.<\/p>\n

He views them as a competitor, as a competitor. He says, “You know, China\u2019s never gonna pass us. What are we doing?” You know, this week there\u2019s gonna be a series of meetings. Jake Sullivan — not Jake from State Farm, but Jake Sullivan (chuckles) — is gonna be meeting with his Chinese counterpart there in Alaska, of all places. He\u2019s gonna meet in Alaska in March.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s really quite something. Jake Sullivan is the national security adviser. He said on Friday going into the weekend that tariffs and export controls will not be a top issue. So trade won\u2019t be a top issue, not gonna be a topic. He\u2019s not gonna be doing any of this trade conversation stuff. What is it that you\u2019re talking with him about? What is it that you want to talk about?<\/p>\n

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Well, they want to talk about climate change and China\u2019s behavior in Hong Kong and the coronavirus pandemic. They probably want to talk about that last and probably not a lot, \u2019cause it\u2019s a sore subject with the American people who have suffered from the pandemic. So here you have the federal government, the American government getting out 20 means with the Chinese counterparts there in Alaska this week.<\/p>\n

Well, Rush absolutely had it spot-on when it came to trade and tariffs under President Trump. Listen.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump has been talking about how China has been ripping us off since the mid-nineties. Whenever he would go on TV, it has been a major bugaboo of his about the stupidity of trade policy that we\u2019ve had, specifically with the ChiComs. So it\u2019s nothing new.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply Trump following through on something that he has stated for the for the last 25 years. It\u2019s not just the trade deals with the ChiComs. It\u2019s with everybody else. He\u2019s sick and tired of the United States basically allowing its pocket to be picked. You have to look at Donald Trump as a disrupter.<\/p>\n

Trump is unafraid to use tariffs. When you talk about conservatism? Conservatives are almost required — if you\u2019re going to be a card-carrying, good conservative — to oppose tariffs. Tariffs are taxes, and conservatives oppose taxes. Here comes Trump imposing taxes on the importation of Chinese goods.<\/p>\n

\"\"And what Trump is doing here is forcing everybody in Washington out of the comfort zone they have been in since World War II. And I\u2019m not exaggerating that. The postwar order that was established by the victors — that would be us and the Brits — the way the world was rearranged after World War II with the United States as the acknowledged, demonstrable, lone superpower in the world.<\/p>\n

Over here was the Soviet Union, with whom we were allied in World War II, and then that all ended when Hitler went bye-bye and then Germany was defeated. Then they became our primary enemy. They never have been a superpower. They are a Third World power with a First World military, including nukes — and that was the danger they posed.<\/p>\n

So Washington has had this structure that everybody that has been in the Washington establishment has acknowledged and sworn by and accepted ever since World War II ended. The basic structure here has had the United States as the world superpower occupying that position almost with an attitude of guilt at being the superpower.<\/p>\n

We have, as policy, allowed our pockets to be picked, and we have made it clear that we intend nobody any harm. We\u2019re not gonna use our power militarily or economically. Why has this all been allowed to happen? Contrary… The president says our leaders have been dumb and stupid. They have not been dumb and stupid, and I\u2019m talking about every Republican president, every Democrat.<\/p>\n

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