{"id":1310867,"date":"2022-02-18T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1310867"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:37:39","slug":"how-democrats-built-chinas-economy-from-clinton-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-democrats-built-chinas-economy-from-clinton-to-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"How Democrats Built China\u2019s Economy, From Clinton To Biden"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fhow-democrats-built-chinas-economy-from-clinton-to-biden%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=1310867&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\/2022\/02\/7A05FA4A-5C83-4900-AA82-6E33803CE73C-scaled-1-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Unlike virtually any product housed on American store shelves, China\u2019s economic success was Made in the USA. The leaders of the Democratic Party have paved the way for much of China\u2019s inexorable 30-year rise as an incipient superpower, according to Lee Smith, the investigative journalist behind The Daily Wire\u2019s new documentary series, \u201cChina: The Enemy Within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party is America\u2019s pro-China faction,\u201d Smith told me during an exclusive interview. And he contends that America\u2019s political, economic, and academic elites have crafted U.S. policies to benefit Chinese interests because they are able to financially enrich themselves in the process.<\/p>\n<p>In one episode of his insightful series, Smith traces the history of American political leaders benefiting the Chinese Communist Party from the 1990s under President Bill Clinton to the modern day under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people talk about the global economy, what they really mean is cheap labor and free trade,\u201d Smith says in one episode of the series. \u201cThe globalist&nbsp;leaders in the West understood that Communist China would&nbsp;be the centerpiece of a global economic system. Why? Because of a large, cheap pool of labor under the control of an authoritarian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then moves forward, year by year, as Democratic politicians systematically set in place the policies that would give Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=CN\">double-digit economic growth<\/a> for years on end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1994, Bill Clinton\u2019s China policy decoupled human rights and trade. In 2001, Clinton granted China Most Favored Nation status in trade, and this led to a key moment in U.S.-China relations: China\u2019s 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization,\u201d Smith notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. government was signaling that trade with&nbsp;China was more important than human rights in China,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat the West had been&nbsp;dreaming of for decades \u2014 this cheap pool of labor would be the centerpiece of this new order \u2014 finally became true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States has lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/growing-china-trade-deficits-costs-us-jobs\/\">3.7 million jobs<\/a> to China since Beijing gained WTO membership, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute. \u201cFrom 2001 to 2018, every state and every congressional district has suffered job loss due to the U.S.-China trade deficit, though five states in particular have been crushed, based on total jobs lost: California (654,200 jobs lost), Texas (334,700), New York (185,200), Illinois (162,300) and Florida (150,500),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanmanufacturing.org\/blog\/u-s-job-loss-to-china-swells-to-3-7-million\/\">noted<\/a> the Alliance for American Manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>While the working- and middle-class saw their jobs and communities erode, the most powerful forces in society benefited from lower labor costs and access to China\u2019s billion-plus-person market. \u201cWhat it meant&nbsp;was that people were going to get rich,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThere was a place for the&nbsp;American establishment to build wealth and power without anyone looking over their shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those people, Smith notes in his series, was Hunter Biden. During Joe Biden\u2019s tenure as vice president, Hunter Biden arranged multiple business deals with close allies of Chinese President Xi Jinping, squeezing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-hunter-bidens-allegedly-lucrative-arrangement-with-china-energy-fund-committee\">$6 million<\/a> out of the relationship before things went sour, according to Miranda Devine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the vice president muted his criticism of even the worst Chinese human rights abuses. During a 2011 visit to China, then-Vice President Biden \u2014 who always styled himself a moderate on abortion \u2014 told Chinese students he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/08\/beyond-not-second-guessing-biden-wants-us-to-learn-together-from-chinas-one-child-policy\/\">not second-guessing<\/a>\u201d the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s one-child policy, which some estimate is responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2013\/08\/336-million-forced-abortions-are-enough-littlejohn-files-un-complaint-over-chinas-one-child-policy\/\">336 million abortions<\/a>; he even said he hoped Chinese and American leaders could \u201clearn together\u201d from it. As president a decade later, an often-flustered Biden regularly falls back on familiar words and phrases he remembers \u2026 and alongside his familiar \u201cC\u2019mon, man!\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-cant-stop-quoting-historys-greatest-murderer-but-the-media-are-silent-about-it\">quotation from former Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet neither Mao\u2019s past atrocities \u2014 he was responsible for the deaths of at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/08\/03\/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due\/\">45 million people<\/a> \u2014 nor President Xi Jinping\u2019s ethnic cleansing of the nation\u2019s Uyghur population impacts U.S. policy. Smith\u2019s docuseries may answer why. \u201cAmerica\u2019s ruling classes,\u201d Smith said, \u201cattach themselves to a foreign power, China, in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the United States. This is the enemy within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire&nbsp;<\/em><em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a><\/u><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike virtually any product housed on American store shelves, China\u2019s economic success was Made in the USA. 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