Commentary
The video clip of the handshake between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden in advance of the G-20 meeting in Bali is an interesting study. One could argue in observing the body language that things are going according to plan—Xi’s plan, that is.
We know what Xi’s plan is; after all, he has been conveying the elements of his plan for a decade now. That plan involves the assertion of communist Chinese supremacy over the planet. To do so necessarily involves displacing the United States as the world’s only economic and military superpower. His grandiose initiatives, such as the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative, are roadmaps to achieving that goal, just as Beijing’s corruption of international institutions, U.S. and other foreign diplomats, and others are hollowing out the current global order and undermining Washington at every turn to aid the process.
In a perfect and transparent world, Biden would have provided a status report to Xi at that G-20 pre-meeting on the actions by his administration (and the Democratic Party) in undermining U.S. national and economic security in favor of Beijing. That’s exactly what Biden’s policies are accomplishing, as most executive orders signed by Biden and most bills approved by Congress since January 2021 have been bad for America and good for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Let us examine the premise in detail.
As China pursues Xi’s political, military, and economic hegemony goals, any U.S. policy that diminishes national and economic security and/or the cohesiveness of American society, in general, is bad for the United States. The following policies implemented by the Biden administration and Democrat-run Congress have trashed the United States in one or more important ways.
Open Border
Biden’s open-door policy on the U.S.–Mexican border has resulted in the invasion of over 2 million illegal aliens and counting since January 2021. The results are disastrous for the United States: soaring crime rates (including drug and human trafficking and gang-related violence), astronomical social services costs in absorbing those illegals, diversion of scarce law enforcement resources away from public safety and other police missions, and tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths per year (most fentanyl and its precursors are manufactured in China).
A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over a group of illegal immigrants after tracking them through rugged terrain at the Organ Pipe National Monument, Ariz., on Sept. 28, 2022. John Moore/Getty Images
Green New Deal
Biden’s executive orders that shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and U.S. domestic oil and gas production, as well as the passage into law of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, have essentially implemented significant parts of the Democrats’ Green New Deal. The goal is a complete replacement of hydrocarbon-based energy production in the United States with so-called clean energy sources, such as solar and wind, through federal mandates, uneconomic green subsidies, and coercion of U.S. industry to rapidly achieve arbitrary green goals through Marxist “environmental, social, and governance” standards.What are the results of these disastrous policies?
- A reversal of the United States from a net exporter of oil and gas under former President Donald Trump to a net importer under Biden.
- Sky-high energy costs, including a doubling or tripling of gasoline prices in some states from those in December 2020 (average costs in California are currently $5.31 per gallon, with some gas stations charging over $7 per gallon).
- A depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the lowest level since 1984 for political reasons to artificially depress gasoline prices ahead of the midterm elections (the SPR is a national security asset to be used in an emergency; its depletion, by definition, reduces U.S. national security).
- A shortage of diesel fuel, according to the Energy Information Administration, will drastically reduce long-haul trucking and contribute to gasoline shortages across the United States and even higher prices for food and other basic commodities.
- Further incentives to import Chinese-made green tech and add to the U.S.-China trade deficit (China is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar panels).
Gargantuan Spending Bills
Over the past 21 months, the Biden Democrats have added nearly $4.8 trillion to U.S. national debt, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, by passing into law the following bills: the America Rescue Plan ($1.9 trillion), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1.2 trillion), the Inflation Reduction Act ($740 billion), and other unfunded commitments.
A projection display of the Democrats' passage of the Inflation Reduction Act is displayed in front of the White House on Aug. 12, 2022. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for DNC
The GOP establishment was complicit, as these bills wouldn’t have been possible without their assistance in twice extending the debt ceiling by over $2.5 trillion, as well as some Republican votes for the bills themselves (less the ARP).
The result? Skyrocketing inflation (unfunded government spending being the prime cause for inflation), an economic slowdown (two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth), and a future debt service that will consume future GDP as interest rates continue to rise. All of those bills have little-known embedded provisions that are deleterious to the U.S. economy in the future.
For example, the Tax Foundation estimates that a single provision in the Inflation Reduction Act—the 15 percent minimum tax on corporate book income—“is the most economically damaging provision in the bill, reducing GDP by 0.1 percent and costing about 20,000 jobs.”
Woke Military
Biden’s policies are transforming the U.S. military in the worst possible way by creating divisiveness and destroying unit cohesion and readiness. These actions range from continuing misguided Obama-era policies, such as “making diversity the mission,” to the Defense Department standdown in February 2021 to supposedly address “extremism in the ranks,” to COVID-19 jab mandates that weakened medical readiness and forced resignations, to the promotion of “transgender” rights over religious liberty in the military.The results? Declining military effectiveness and combat readiness, the resignations of mid-career officers and enlisted, and the growing recruiting/retention deficit. China’s People’s Liberation Army generals must be laughing as they watch the U.S. military implode through disastrous personnel and administrative policies.
Adoption of Cultural Marxism
Through executive orders, the Biden administration has promoted the principles of critical race theory (CRT) and diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) and their advocacy throughout the federal government.The purpose of CRT and DEI is to employ racialism to “abolish the nuclear family, abolish gender, defund the police, abolish the border, abolish prisons, abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, abolish ICE, abolish voter ID, abolish capitalism, abolish private/charter schools, abolish religious freedom, abolish free speech, abolish rights, abolish objective truth, abolish reality,” according to Newsweek.
In short, their goal is to destroy America’s institutions and culture from within. The CCP couldn’t be more pleased with the results.
LGBTQI+ Advocacy
Biden signed an executive order and a memorandum that advanced the controversial LGBTQI+ agenda at the expense of most Americans who don’t suffer from sexual dysphoria. With the stroke of a pen, his actions wiped out over 4,000 years of Judeo–Christian history, morals, and beliefs that undergird American culture and our Republic.The result is a continued substitution of identity politics over merit, along with the exacerbation of divisiveness among Americans and the deterioration of moral standards in our institutions. Worst of all is the Democratic Party’s support for the sexualizing and grooming of children by the public education system.
Ukraine Aid
With the lockstep support of Democrats in Congress and many establishment Republicans, the Biden administration continues to pour taxpayer money down the Ukraine rathole to the tune of $52.2 billion through the beginning of October with more in the queue (see here and here).
President Joe Biden signs legislative action to provide security aid and support to Ukraine as Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L), Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley look on, during an event in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House on March 16, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images
The result? An ongoing depletion of U.S. weapons and ammunition stores in the face of the rising threat posed by the Chinese regime, and the distraction caused by a regional war in Europe away from the hybrid war that China has been conducting against the United States for years.
An even greater benefit to the CCP are the revelations stemming from the FTX cryptocurrency scandal that is unfolding.
“FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country," The Post Millennial reported. “Ukraine partnered with FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the U.S.”
No wonder the U.S. Senate refused to pass Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) amendment requiring mandatory aid audits to Ukraine. With the potential political paralysis that may ensue in Washington as the scandal unravels, Beijing stands much to gain.
Concluding Thoughts
The above list of “Biden administration and Democratic Party accomplishments” should have been presented by Biden (servant) to Xi (master) on Nov. 14 in advance of the G-20 summit in Bali. After all, the results from that list couldn’t have been more in Beijing’s long-term interests if Xi had drawn it up: high inflation, economic slowdown and chaos, a weakened U.S. military, divisiveness among Americans, and a looming sovereign debt crisis.The communist Chinese are reaping massive dividends on their investments in and corruption of the Biden family and many others in the U.S. political class. Meanwhile, Americans are getting the (very) short end of the stick.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
