Morning Jolt: There’s Too Much Bull in Biden’s China Shop

On the menu today: As far as President Biden and his team are concerned, our policies towards China are working swimmingly. Yeah, I'm not buying it, either.

‘Beijing Is on the Back Foot’ — Really?

The default setting of the messaging from the Biden administration is, "Everything we're doing is going great, there is no valid criticism of our past or current decisions, and any evidence to the contrary is misinformation or disinformation."

The administration and its allies would like the public to believe that shooting down the Chinese spy balloon after it had crossed the continent represented a great counterintelligence success, and that was such a great success that it is a good idea to "continue to engage with China," as President Biden put it in his remarks last week. As Vice President Harris declared before traveling to the Munich Security Conference ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 21 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 21 2023 There's Too Much Bull in Biden's China Shop On the menu today: As far as President Biden and his team are concerned, our policies towards China are working swimmingly. Yeah, I'm not buying it, either. ‘Beijing Is on the Back Foot’ — Really? The default setting of the messaging from the Biden administration is, "Everything we're doing is going great, there is no valid criticism of our past or current decisions, and any evidence to the contrary is misinformation or disinformation." The administration and its allies would like the public to believe that shooting down the Chinese spy balloon after it had crossed the continent represented a great counterintelligence success, and that was such a great success that it is a good idea to "continue to engage with China," as President Biden put it in his remarks last week. As Vice President Harris declared before traveling to the Munich Security Conference ...   READ MORE

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