Bernie Sanders has an excellent essay in Foreign Affairs and, as usual, he is right on. As he says in the piece, there are plenty of things to be concerned about vis-a-vis China, but none of them requires declaring a new Cold War.
Twenty years ago the Chamber of Commerce and other right-wing-capitalist lobbying groups were all for trade with China. After all, they claimed, if China becomes a part of the rest of the world, it is inevitable that it will moderate--it just has to. Well, that didn't quite happen. But that wasn't their real reason for supporting "free trade" in the first place. The real reason was that there was a lot of money to be made. And a lot of money was made, largely at the expense of American workers (and Chinese workers as well).
Well, lo and behold, now there is money to be made by declaring American First. So the same right-wing capitalists are banging their jingoist drums about human rights and all sorts of fear mongering.
It's all about money.
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