{"id":554617,"date":"2021-06-06T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554617"},"modified":"2021-06-06T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T20:50:16","slug":"condoleezza-rice-trumps-covid-travel-restrictions-with-china-incredibly-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/condoleezza-rice-trumps-covid-travel-restrictions-with-china-incredibly-appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Condoleezza Rice: Trump&#039;s COVID Travel Restrictions With China &#039;Incredibly Appropriate&#039;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fcondoleezza-rice-trumps-covid-travel-restrictions-with-china-incredibly-appropriate%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=554617&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\/06\/GetFile-299.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Condoleezza Rice says former\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to enact border closures and travel restrictions from China in the\u00a0early days of the pandemic\u00a0was \u201cincredibly appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there were even those who said that President Trump&#8217;s early decisions about border closures and travel restrictions were xenophobic or are not appropriate. Turns out they were incredibly appropriate,\u201d Rice said Sunday during an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1401560380795756545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1401560380795756545%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fsunday-talk-shows%2F557059-rice-maybe-there-was-a-little-bit-to-much-of-trusting-of-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats in April 2020 slammed Trump after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-he-suspending-immigration-over-coronavirus-need-protect-jobs-n1188416\">s<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-he-suspending-immigration-over-coronavirus-need-protect-jobs-n1188416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aid<\/a>\u00a0he planned to suspend immigration to the United States, arguing that such a move would do nothing to protect Americans from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/live-blog\/2020-04-21-coronavirus-news-n1188466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0and deflect attention from his handling of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., even tweeted that Trump was the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/1252438759296995329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xenophobe. In. Chief<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Rice deemed Trump was correct to order early closure of the border at the onset of COVID, other mistakes have been made, she said, including\u00a0trusting the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The former Secretary of State\u00a0said\u00a0public health officials in the United States made a &#8220;mistake&#8221; in the early weeks of the pandemic by dismissing the possibility that the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0accidentally leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere [U.S. officials] too accommodating of China in the sense that early on we were told the Chinese are on top of it? I can&#8217;t imagine during the Cold War U.S. government ever saying, \u2018Well, the Russians have told us they&#8217;re on the case. Everything&#8217;s fine.\u2019 Were we too trusting of the Chinese?\u201d host John Dickerson asked Rice on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a really good point, John,\u201d Rice said, adding, \u201cMaybe there was a little bit too much of trusting of the Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rice also said she didn&#8217;t\u00a0think it was &#8220;worth trusting that the Chinese were being transparent about what was going on there&#8221;\u00a0given what the U.S. experienced with the SARS and avian flu outbreaks in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Rice\u00a0also suggested President Joe Biden in his search for answers into the\u00a0origins of COVID-19 and the theory that the virus\u00a0may have\u00a0leaked from a lab in Wuhan &#8220;recognize that there was too much of a tendency early on\u00a0to dismiss the possibility of a laboratory leak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if future national security challenges will have something to do with China, Rice told CBS,\u00a0\u201ccertainly the great rival now is China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, that challenge \u201ccan be met,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s different than the Cold War because during the Cold War our great rival, the Soviet Union, was a military giant, but it was frankly a technological midget and economically completely isolated from the international economy. China is very different,\u201d Rice said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a technological giant. It is increasingly seeking military capabilities that look as if they are trying to change the balance in the Asia Pacific. So, it&#8217;s a different kind of challenge, but it&#8217;s one that I think can be met,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condoleezza Rice says former\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to enact border closures and travel restrictions from China in the\u00a0early days of the pandemic\u00a0was \u201cincredibly appropriate.&#8221; \u201cI think there were even those &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279385,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-299.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Condoleezza Rice: Trump&#039;s COVID Travel Restrictions With China &#039;Incredibly Appropriate&#039;","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-299.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Condoleezza Rice: Trump&#039;s COVID Travel Restrictions With China &#039;Incredibly Appropriate&#039;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554617","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=554617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}