{"id":121797,"date":"2021-02-09T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121797"},"modified":"2021-02-09T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:58:12","slug":"new-york-times-columnist-tom-friedman-on-china-at-least-they-dont-have-republicans-qanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-columnist-tom-friedman-on-china-at-least-they-dont-have-republicans-qanon\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman On China: At Least They Don\u2019t Have Republicans, QAnon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fnew-york-times-columnist-tom-friedman-on-china-at-least-they-dont-have-republicans-qanon%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=121797&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\/02\/TF.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told CNN during an interview on Monday night that while communist China does some bad things, such as locking up religious minorities in concentration camps, at least they don\u2019t have to put up with the Republican Party and fringe conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman made the remarks during an interview on \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d with host Chris Cuomo in a segment that was primarily focused on the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know what I\u2019ve been thinking about Chris, as I was listening to your show, the lead in here?\u201d Friedman said. \u201cI was thinking like, what are they doing in China today? You know, Chris, do you know that it takes four hours and 18 minutes to take the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, and it takes 21 hours to take the train from New York to Chicago. And they\u2019re both about the same distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you something they weren\u2019t thinking about in China this week,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey weren\u2019t thinking about some knucklehead. They weren\u2019t spending the week thinking about a knucklehead who claimed 911 didn\u2019t happen. They weren\u2019t thinking about some guy who\u2019s a QAnon shaman? I don\u2019t know, they were probably thinking about some bad stuff with the Uyghurs and all of that, oh for sure, but I guarantee you, they weren\u2019t wasting their time on this nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New York Times columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomfriedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tomfriedman<\/a> compliments China on their fast trains in spite of the &#8220;bad stuff with the Uyghurs&#8221; and says that America is a &#8220;deeply unserious&#8221; country <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UBeVibkpuK\">pic.twitter.com\/UBeVibkpuK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1358998754448261125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>TOM FRIEDMAN, NYT COLUMNIST: But you know what I\u2019ve been thinking about Chris, as I was listening to your show, the lead in here? I was thinking like, what are they doing in China today? You know, Chris, do you know that it takes four hours and 18 minutes to take the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, and it takes 21 hours to take the train from New York to Chicago. And they\u2019re both about the same distance. I can\u2019t I\u2019ll tell you something they weren\u2019t thinking about in China this week. They weren\u2019t thinking about some knucklehead. They weren\u2019t spending the week thinking about a knucklehead who claimed 911 didn\u2019t happen. They weren\u2019t thinking about some guy who\u2019s a QAnon shaman? I don\u2019t know, they were probably thinking about some bad stuff with the Uyghurs and all of that, oh for sure, but I guarantee you, they weren\u2019t wasting their time on this nonsense. And how do we do this week after week, month after month, and think we are a serious country? We are so deeply unserious as a country right now. And we need to put this crap behind us, okay, and get focused on the future. Because right now, we are going to be falling farther and farther behind. And that\u2019s what\u2019s really on my mind. And that\u2019s why I am praying for Joe Biden, because I think he\u2019s a serious guy. He\u2019s trying to do the right thing. And I think he is cursed by a Republican Party that is chasing a madman who actually encourage people to sack our Capitol, you have to stop and repeat that. They sacked our capital on the basis of a big lie. And now a Republican majority is going to sit on their hands and be just fine with that. Shame on them. Shame, shame, shame on them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told CNN during an interview on Monday night that while communist China does some bad things, such as locking up religious minorities in concentration &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892965,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,5941,5943,5945,4126,3859],"class_list":["post-121797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-columnist","tag-friedman","tag-least","tag-times","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}