“Whatever we did to make the Chinese angry, we have to stop doing it, because it’s hurting us.”
That was an argument that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) heard from an airplane maker executive recently after China stopped buying their planes and switched to Europe. The company blamed the switch on U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
American companies’ dependence on the Chinese market is one leverage that the communist regime uses to pressure the U.S. administration to adopt policies friendly toward Beijing, according to Rubio. Beijing’s goal, he said, is to pursue its military ambitions, be it the takeover of Taiwan or to supplant the United States as the sole global superpower, unimpeded by Washington.
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