America First Versus America Last, China Edition

Biden’s policies are pro-China on all that matter most

It has been twenty-eight months since Joe Biden took this oath on the Bible: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God."

An oath taken in public before God used to be a big deal, but the secularists in America have turned this act into a de facto archaic ceremony without meaning. However, there are Americans who still believe that such oaths imbue the oath-taker into a solemn moral responsibility. Biden is apparently one of those who doesn’t believe that sworn oaths mean anything.

Is that too harsh a judgment? Let us examine the facts.

In analyzing actions taken or not taken since then in the context of communist China – which even the Biden administration considers to be the top threat to the US, per the National Defense Strategy – the only conclusion that can be drawn is that Biden has failed to uphold his sworn oath. Worse yet, his actions have undermined US national security vis-à-vis China, as a comparison between his policy actions and those of his predecessor clearly shows.

Energy security. Communist China’s number one goal is to displace the US as the world’s only superpower. Thus, the Chinese view anything that undermines the US as an enabler to achieving that goal. The World Bank acknowledges that energy production is at heart of economic development for any and all countries. The corollary is that high energy prices brought about by scarcity is bad for economic growth. Under President Trump’s pro-energy policies, the US became an exporter of oil and gas for the first time in years, with commensurate low gasoline prices at the pump. Biden’s green policies have led to the exact opposite result, as the US is now a net importer and dependent on potential adversaries such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran (in the near future) for oil. And then there are the historically high gasoline prices. US energy insecurity benefits China.

Military capabilities. To pace the Chinese, President Trump made major investments in military capabilities, including the establishment of the US Space Force, modernization of nuclear capabilities, and upgrading of cyber defense capabilities. While a regional war is ongoing in Ukraine, and Chinese belligerence is on the rise in East Asia and elsewhere, the new Biden budget plan calls for a reduction in Navy ships and aircraft, fewer than one million Army soldiers for the first time in 20 years, and elevation of “mitigating climate change” as a military priority. The Chinese love any reduction in US military capabilities, as well as anything that diverts scarce resources away from real combat capabilities.

Military readiness and training. Military readiness and training were a DoD priority under President Trump. One of Biden’s first actions via his new secretary of defense was to initiate a standdown throughout the US military to address “extremism in the ranks.” This led to implementation of mandatory critical race theory training throughout DoD, thereby diverting scarce training resources and command attention away from combat-related individual and team training. CRT programs encourage hostility and distrust – the opposite of unity and cohesion and the mutual trust needed for survival in life-and-death combat situations. CRT engenders attitudes that are poisonous in what should be “team-oriented environments” when personal trust and reliability must be both implicit and explicit. As a result of the “woke” pressures on military leaders, military recruiting goals have been increasingly difficult to meet. CNN reported that “the latest available figures from October and November 2021 show most services did not meet their recruitment goals, apart from the Marine Corps active-duty and reserve components and well as the Air Force active-duty forces.” This is a disaster in the making when the DoD focus should be on combat effectiveness and military readiness, and the Chinese are thrilled!

Economic security. US economic strength was a hallmark during the Trump years, and all demographic groups benefited from Trump economic policies that produced sustained economic growth with low taxes, regulations, and inflation. Before the pandemic hit, unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows. The key Trump stimulus passed was $3.2 trillion in historic tax relief and reformation of the tax code. Another major focus was massive deregulation aimed at increasing business productivity, as eight old regulations were eliminated for every 1 new regulation adopted. Trump focused on fair and reciprocal trade by negotiating historic trade deals to defend American workers, including the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and imposing tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs. Biden economic policies are the opposite of Trump’s policies: massive tax and spending increases, an enormous increase in new regulations associated with Green New Deal priorities, ending most Trump-era tariffs, and rejoining the Paris Accords. The Biden policies have led to the highest inflation rate in the US in 40 years, which is destroying the purchasing power of seniors and low-income Americans, as well as has resulted in major supply chain disruptions in most sectors of the economy. And the resulting stagflation due to Biden policies is exactly what the Chinese want to see.

Border security. Border security is a key component of national security; tight immigration controls promote assimilation and stability over time and minimize the entry of criminals, terrorists, drug-runners (loaded with fentanyl produced in China), and disease-ridden people into the country. A key focus of the Trump administration was reversing the open border policy of the Obama regime by improving physical border security measures, including the construction of a border wall and use of surveillance technology to enforce security measures. Deportations of illegal aliens increased, and the flow of illegals into the US was drastically curtailed during the Trump years. The Biden policy from day one has been open borders, including the diversion of border wall funding to other uses, the directed nonenforcement of existing US immigration laws, and the repeal of Title 42 restrictions (which will lead to an enormous wave of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the southern border). The strain on US taxpayers and the economy, as well as the spike in drug-related deaths from fentanyl trafficking, benefits communist China bigly by destabilizing the US.

Culture. Ronald Reagan once said that “the best social program is a job.” Jobs are pro-family. And “jobs for as many people who want to work as possible” has been the key policy engine of American culture over the decades. Trump’s policies delivered jobs in spades, with record low unemployment rates for minorities and women. The Trump years were all about maximizing personal and economic freedoms, delivering prison reforms (a major impact on minorities), removing impediments from individuals and businesses, and providing opportunities to all Americans. On the other hand, Biden’s policies – whether intentionally or not – are undermining the traditional American culture: supporting federal decriminalization of marijuana use, pushing the cultural Marxism of critical race theory (also known as diversity, inclusion, and equity) throughout society, promoting moral relativity before the law (with the Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination being a prime example), criminalizing political dissent (e.g., the J6 protest defendants), and advocating for sex-change-related surgeries (i.e., child mutilation) for minors. As if it wasn’t enough for Democrats to work overtime to destroy the nuclear family, Biden’s transgender sex-change surgery push is effectively aimed rob children of their innocence. All of Biden’s domestic policies promote divisiveness and chaos, which only benefit our adversaries such as communist China. Whatever weakens the US benefits China.

CONCUSION

A simple comparison of Trump (America First) versus Biden (America Last) policies as they relate to communist China is eye-opening and shocking. Biden has reversed almost all of Trump’s “tough-on-China” policies.

Much has been made recently about the Biden family having been corrupted – if not purchased outright – by the Chinese communists (see one example here about Hunter Biden having received $100,000 from the state-controlled Chinese energy company CEFC for “services rendered”). These transactions are being confirmed by disclosures and receipts from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Even The New York Times and The Washington Post have finally acknowledged that the laptop is “real” (and not “Russian disinformation”). Someone needs to press those 51-odd senior intelligence community Democrats directly about their shameful claims that the laptop was dezinformatsiya, too.

Given the above Trump-Biden policy comparisons, what more could a China-compromised president be doing to benefit China than Biden is presently doing?

In the grand scheme of things, has Joe Biden been faithful to his sworn oath? You decide.

The end.