State Department: The World Must Hold To Account The Chinese Communist Party

[denem]

Trump has turned America into a pitiful pariah

... After State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus tweeted that “freedom loving people around the world must stand with the rule of law and hold to account the Chinese Communist Party,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman replied: “I can’t breathe.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/trump-has-turned-america-into-pitiful-pariah/

[cos dem]

1. This shows why we've got to get our country in order.

It's very hard to have any credibility against authoritarian regimes when you yourself are an authoritarian regime.

[Budi]

2. Trump, you ass.

Omg.

[jayfish]

3. These People!

[captain queeg]

4. How can they even say that with a straight face?

I picture the rethugs laughing behind closed doors. Maybe this time they are starting to worry people won’t be buying their BS but they’re so far in there’s no way to change course. They’ll be doubling down very soon.

[Renew Deal]

5. Who is this "Chinese enemy" for?

I don't understand who this is meant to appeal to? There are only so many unemployed factory workers and he's got the xenophobes locked up.

[John Fante]

7. Exactly. Gump sewed up the bigot vote back in 2015.

Pandering to them is like courting your significant other 15 years into the marriage.

[KT2000]

6. tone deaf

what a bunch of idiots - the whole lot of them, but nice of them to out American hypocrisy.

[zipplewrath]

8. They are not wrong

It helps tremendously if we are not acting just like them. The larger problem is that we don't have the "moral imperative" here. Separating children at the border, building a wall that will keep no one out, (China tried millennia ago), travel restrictions that accomplished nothing, these are how the US loses the moral basis to challenge other countries. Imagine the strength we'd have had with Iran if we'd entered the pandemic in the midst of an arms agreement that had been working for 7 years. Imagine if China (or as the "Orange Anus" had pronounced it; ChiINah) had actually trusted us to work with them when the virus broke out.

I guess the American expression is "it will be what it will be".

Mine will be, "Who you vote for matters". Even when it is a boomer who doesn't understand how to handle governmental email. The 3 o'clock phone call is far more important.