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DeSantis: Countering China requires decisive action, not talk and flattery — Here’s how I’ll do it as president

President Biden is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week courtesy of Gov. Gavin Newsom s red-carpet rollout for the Communist leader.

If his administration s record is any indicator, Biden will focus more on flattering Xi than holding his regime accountable.

His Cabinet has chased Chinese officials around the globe, only to bow, sing their praises and make concessions when the meetings are finally secured.

The president seems content to manage America s decline rather than confront China and win this decisive decade.

Time is running out to act and prevent China from overtaking the United States as the world s leading superpower.

As president, I will restore American strength on the world stage and focus our attention and resources on deterring Xi s Chinese Communist Party the greatest economic and security threat facing America today.

My goal is straightforward: We win, and they lose.

Both US parties have mistakenly treated China as a friendly competitor, letting a hostile Marxist regime exploit our openness and steal our technology, jobs, industries and assets through trade abuses, currency manipulation and slave labor.

It s allowed Beijing s defense budget and military to rival Washington s, putting China on track to surpass us economically.

The wealth and power ceded to Beijing have enabled the Chinese Communist Party to expand its malign influence globally, including in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Western Hemisphere.

We must make sure the United States economy remains the largest and most dynamic on Earth.

via nypost.com

Ron DeSantis.

Sounds good to me.