{"id":1144064,"date":"2021-12-22T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1144064"},"modified":"2021-12-22T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:04:36","slug":"desantis-american-elites-the-number-one-reason-china-is-so-powerful-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-american-elites-the-number-one-reason-china-is-so-powerful-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis: American Elites &#039;the Number One Reason&#039; China is So Powerful Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-american-elites-the-number-one-reason-china-is-so-powerful-today%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1144064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1332538961-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is blasting America\u2019s political and corporate elites as \u201cthe number one reason\u201d China has become \u201cas powerful as they are\u201d as he moves to detangle the state\u2019s finances from China-owned companies.<\/p>\n<p>During a&nbsp;State Board of Administration meetingthis week, DeSantis went after the nation\u2019s ruling class for their propping up of China via allowing the communist country to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) and supporting decades-long free trade policy that has gutted domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China eliminated&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/u-s-trade-deficit-hits-record-high-in-2020-biden-administration-must-prioritize-rebuilding-domestic-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">3.7 million<\/a>&nbsp;American jobs from the economy \u2014 2.8 million of which were lost in American manufacturing. During that same period, at least 50,000 American manufacturing plants closed down.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you go back a generation, the idea was if we make China into the WTO \u2026 that sent a lot of American production capacity over to China,\u201d DeSantis said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The American elites thought \u2018Well, that will make China more like us, they won\u2019t be a rogue country, they\u2019ll respect human rights, and maybe become more democratic.\u2019 And the reality is, not only has that not happened, <strong>it\u2019s made China very powerful and the elites in the U.S. are the number one reason China is as powerful as they are with all that they\u2019ve done<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<p>But not only has it not improved China\u2019s political culture, they\u2019re arguably worse than they were even 20 to 30 years ago. And if anything, not only have the West \u2026 not influenced them to be more like the West tradition, they\u2019re influencing the West to be more like them. <strong>If you look at how some of these major companies will behave when faced with Chinese disapproval, they will censor, they will do all these things, you\u2019ll see groveling apologies<\/strong> \u2026 <strong>so the whole experiment with China has been a big failure for the United States<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<p>We saw it when covid first hit \u2026 <strong>people wanted masks and all these other things and all of it was being produced in China. They basically controlled all of this<\/strong>. They have a lot of control over components of our economy which affects our national security and so <strong>I think that the U.S. as a whole should be disentangling from China but certainly our investments should be disentangling<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis made the remarks as he moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/12\/20\/governor-ron-desantis-takes-action-against-communist-china-and-woke-corporations\/\">to revoke<\/a> all proxy voting authority previously given to outside fund managers and introduced a plan to review all investments of the Florida Retirement System to see how many assets the state has in China-owned companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is not somebody that we should want to have any relationship with,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also think that our country as a whole, but certainly Florida \u2026 I would like to see more production and manufacturing reshored and we would be a great place to do that,\u201d DeSantis continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know they don\u2019t treat their workers well, <strong>they basically have parts that are just literally slave labor and so people want to save money on that. One, that\u2019s not the right thing to do, but two it\u2019s a very volatile political culture<\/strong>, you don\u2019t really have any rights over there. I would do something in Florida where you can come, give them no taxes for however many years. <strong>I think it would be really, really good for the state, and for our country, to get that stuff out of China as best as we can<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In June, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/07\/ron-desantis-signs-bills-stop-nefarious-foreign-interference-corporate-media-in-pocket-communist-party-china\/\">signed legislation<\/a> to ban Confucious Institutes in Florida and created new criminal statutes for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. 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