One of the things then-President Donald Trump hyper-focused on was America’s economic competition with China. In fact, it was such a huge concern for Trump that his saying “Chynah” became an internet meme.
But current President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to remember any of that.
According to The Hill, Biden seems to believe that it never even “occurred” to Trump to get tough on China:
The president also said to boost competition with China, he has revitalized partnerships in the Pacific with countries including India, Australia, South Korea and the Philippines, and he has advanced technologies that can’t be sent to China in order to protect U.S. national security.
“For all this tough talk on China, it never occurred to my predecessor to do any of that,” Biden said.
“The bottom line is, I want fair competition with China, not conflict, and we’re in a stronger position to win the economic competition of the 21st century against China or anyone else because we’re investing in America and American workers again,” he added.
The president also argued that Trump and Republicans are wrong with their rhetoric that China is a country on the rise.
“Trump simply doesn’t get it,” he said.
In truth, Trump came down on China so hard that the left got nervous on more than one occasion and claimed that Trump was going to do damage to the United States with all the tariffs he was passing. It was one of the first things he got up to when he first entered office.