“China is the greatest strategic and economic threat facing the United States in the 21st century,” Pence said in his speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.
For months, China as a foreign policy adversary has been the favored topic of Republican primary candidates.
Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations, made a point of spelling out how adversarial the relationship between the United States and China has become.
“Yes, I view China as an enemy.”Haley has also used China as a way to frame Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as weak and incompetent.
During the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump dug in against criticism directed at him for calling the coronavirus the “China virus.”Trump has used China to argue he has done more than other administrations.
Persons:
Mike Pence, Joe Biden’s, ” Pence, Biden, it’s, ”, Scott Brown, Trump, “, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, ” DeSantis, Sen, Tim Scott of, ” Scott, I’ll, Nikki Haley, “ China’s, ” Haley, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Kamala Harris, They’ve, Dixon, Donald Trump, ” Trump, Maura Gillespie, ” Gillespie, Vladimir Putin, Putin
Organizations:
CNN, Hudson Institute, Republican, Florida Gov, Tim Scott of South Carolina, South Carolina Gov, United Nations, Union ”, America, Newsweek, GOP
Locations:
Afghanistan, China, “ China, United States, Washington ,, New Zealand, Samoa, Ukraine, New Hampshire, Florida, Tim Scott of South, “ State, Russia, Communist China