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Joe Biden just hammered Trump on China. But theres more to be said.
By Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/17/biden-just-hammered-trump-china-theres-more-say/?utm_source=reddit.com
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Trump undid or undercut virtually all the programs and people that the Obama-Biden administration had put in place to prevent, detect or deal with a pandemic originating in China, Blinken said.
Clearly, that contrast will feed into a big argument that will have to be engaged over who would better prepare us for future pandemics. And here, too, there will be more to say.
A crucial aspect of this will be making the case against Trumps efforts to gut U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, which hes undertaken in service of transparent blame-shifting and ludicrous performative nationalism, which (whatever WHOs failures) is just insanity amid a global pandemic.
All this also provides an opening for Biden to vow to reassert an international leadership role for the United States on global health and to restate the case for reality-based multilateralism in the face of global problems such as pandemics.
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elleng
(131,106 posts)so 'an opening for Biden to vow to reassert an international leadership role for the United States on global health and to restate the case for reality-based multilateralism in the face of global problems such as pandemics' may well be for naught.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)with open arms. Family did a summer internship in Washington DC a few years ago. She was blown away by the professionalism and intellect of the people she met there. Those people who 'serve' the world have just been silenced. There are groups and aid agencies and government workers who are a treasure. And she's pretty bright herself.
elleng
(131,106 posts)I'm a retired Federal employee/bureaucrat, fortunately retired well before this crowd arrived.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)businessmen can redo every bit of policy to suit their fancy or $$$$ and make the american people go into the slavery industry again.
is a very respected figure internationally, and everyone who isn't a despot would be thrilled to know he was the one that was going to be in charge instead of Trump. Add to that he will have a strong Secretary of State, we will be reclaiming that roll quickly.