Putin and Xi sound a warning bell for the West | Opinion
Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures as he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 20.The meeting of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin was a signal moment that free people, and those yearning to be free, must beware of. It was about nothing less than reordering the world so that it is more authoritarian and less democratic.
The tide has shifted. Now, it seems, the darkness of war and authoritarianism is spreading. American leaders should make no mistake that this meeting between Putin and Xi is a strategic consideration of how to speed up the spread. The first step is open acknowledgment that isolation is not an option. America must be engaged in stopping Russia’s advance in Ukraine through the ongoing and generous supply of weapons and defense systems. Ending Putin’s war with the withdrawal of Russian troops must be the strategic goal of the United States.
There are promising signs this is an area where Republicans and Democrats can find common ground. The passage of the CHIPS act was a clear indication that we can get bipartisan agreement on manufacturing. But more work needs to be done to find production that would be done at home than in China. U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., raised an interesting question during recent congressional hearings about how much U.S. military spending on goods goes to China.
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