Is China Trying to Elect a Democrat?

Powerline ^ | 09/09/2019 | John Hinderaker

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Is China Trying to Elect a Democrat?

For the last three years, Democrats have obsessed over Russia’s relatively trivial participation in the 2016 election. But if they have any concern about China’s reported interest in 2020, they haven’t shown it. Why? Because China’s leaders want to get rid of Donald Trump and replace him with a Democrat who will be more compliant.

Bill Gertz’s piece in the Free Beacon is titled “China Trying to Stop Trump Reelection, Dominate Militarily.”

Washington Free Beacon senior editor Bill Gertz said Friday that China is working against America ahead of the 2020 election because it wants “a different president.”

“They are already working in the farm states,” Gertz said Friday on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight. “They are working against the whiskey industry in the United States to undermine Trump. They want a different president.”

What, exactly, are the Chinese doing? I suppose we won’t know for a while yet. But this linked piece, also by Gertz, addresses that question.

The campaign has been underway since the 2018 mid-term election and involves enlisting pro-China elements inside the United States to end the Trump administration after four years.

Among those anti-Trump elements are “American mainstream news and social media outlets,” but I don’t suppose they needed the Chinese to mobilize them behind the Democratic nominee.

Most likely we won’t know about any Chinese dirty tricks until long after the election, but I think it is safe to say that the main thing they are doing to help elect a Democrat is to refuse to resolve the trade and intellectual property issues that have caused President Trump to impose tariffs on Chinese goods. The trade dispute, accompanied by an exodus of American companies to other Asian countries or back to the U.S., is hurting China’s economy much worse than the “trade war” is hurting the U.S. But it appears that China’s rulers are willing to endure a lot of economic pain–none of which, after all, is suffered by them–in hopes of bringing about the election of a friendly Democrat like Joe Biden.

This is the game of chicken that China and the Trump administration are playing. I hope Trump wins, sometime before November 2020. If not, there may not be a second term in which to continue the struggle.

[rightwingcrazy]

I’d expect that all of America’s rivals would prefer a Democrat.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Peter Thiel said that Google is committing treason by working with the Chinese Communist Party while refusing to work with the Pentagon. If that’s so, we are into another Cold War, and we’ve got fifth column traitors all over the place.

[llevrok]

China wants any body with out a spine. And no one better fits that want than an American liberal, a.k.a. Democrat.

[FormerFRLurker]

“For the last three years, Democrats have obsessed over Russia’s relatively trivial participation in the 2016 election.”

NO foreign participation in US elections should be tolerated.

[kaehurowing]

Yes.

China already controls California to an extent. California has entered into illegal treaties with China.

[Pontiac]

CHINESE COLLUSION

CHINESE COLLUSION

CHINESE COLLUSION

[fieldmarshaldj]

RED China wants Plugs the Puppet as President.

[lonestar67]

The Chinese did this in 1996 and 2000.

It was not a crime because they again supported Democrats so that makes it legal.

[Brilliant]

They are laundering campaign cash thru Google.

[gundog]

But for Trump, we’re screwed. Post-Trump, we’re screwed. And I don’t mean just screwed. I mean completely f***ed. Convince me otherwise.

[Robert357]

Does the name Charlie Trie, Wang Wenliang, and Ng Lap Seng, aka “Mr. Wu.” ring a Clinton corruption bell with anyone?

Yes, China has been interfering with US elections for a long time, but in a way that the Democrats felt was just fine.

[poinq]

China has been interfering with our elections for many years. Go back to the many Chinese blunders who gave money to Clinton. Two years ago, Trump called out Xi himself at the UN podium during Trump’s UN address. Trump accused Xi to his face with election interference.

In the past 10 years we all saw congressman and other government workers and politicians retire without explanation. China has long had a habit of putting cameras in hotel rooms and meeting rooms. They have paid spies to hit on prominent Americans.

So, just assume that China is very much involved in this election. They really don’t want Trump re-elected. A big question is who they do want. Biden is an easy answer. But who else?

[wildcard_redneck]

I think that President Trump will make the Democratic Party’s collusion with the Chinese a major campaign issue.

[wildcard_redneck]

“CHINESE COLLUSION

CHINESE COLLUSION

CHINESE COLLUSION”

Chinese collusion is a huge problem but don’t forget another big issue:
MEXICO COLLUSION

MEXICO COLLUSION

MEXICO COLLUSION

[Gay State Conservative]

Our enemies...our *real* enemies...have known for decades that the Rat Party is the easier of our two parties to buy,to fool,to manipulate and to control. "Tell Vlad I'm very flexible" didn't come as a surprise to him...and surely wasn't the first time a Rat politician signaled surrender to an enemy.

Of course China wants a Rat to win.

[depressed in 06]

If the Chinese are trying to elect a Democrat, it must be Trump. There are no Democrats in the Bolshekrat Party.