CFR: “No” to Decoupling From China, “Yes” to “De-risking”
If you read Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, you might have noticed over the past few years more than a few articles damning proposals for “decoupling” the United States’ economy from that of China. That would be “disastrous,” the CFR choir has intoned over and over again. But, then, what to do about the rising chorus of concern over our dangerous dependence on the communist Beijing regime for everything from medicine, electronics, and tools to clothing, appliances, cellphones, computers — and, increasingly, food? Especially when these concerns are being fanned by a MAGA cheerleader like Donald Trump?
Hmmm. Time to reach into reach into the CFR’s bag of verbal sleight-of-hand tricks. Instead of causing global chaos and harming American consumers by decoupling, the CFR-led foreign-policy establishment chimed in unison, let’s “de-risk” our relationship with Beijing. But even a cursory examination of the “de-risking” proposals quickly reveals that they are purely eyewash aimed at mollifying the booboisie apprehensions about the growing CCP influence in all aspects of our lives. The de-riskers say they would limit Beijing’s access to U.S. high tech items that would boost China’s military prowess. They offer a few other minor tweaks, but essentially want to maintain the current suicidal course. The CFR de-risking lobby just happens to be the same cabal that designed, promoted, defended, and maintained our traitorous China trade policy over the past half century. Their “de-risking” schemes are recipes for maintaining the same destructive course but seasoned with empty promises about guarding against CCP treachery and exploitation.
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