DeSantis Blames US ‘Elites’ for failed ‘Experiment with China’…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the U.S. experiment with China allowing the country into the World Trade Organization a “big failure,” adding that America’s elites were to blame for it.

“Not only has it not improved China’s political culture, they’re arguably worse than they were even 20, 30 years ago. Not only has the U.S. and the West not influenced them to be more like the Western tradition, they’re influencing the West to be more like them.“

DeSantis elaborated on the impact of foreign expansion in the United States by heavily influencing U.S. businesses.

“If you look at how these major companies behave when faced with Chinese disapproval, they censor what the CCP tells them to censor and we see groveling apologies. Go back a generation, and the idea of the American elites was, ‘If we allow China into the WTO and give them most favored nation status, that will make China more like us.’ This experiment has failed and it has endangered our nation’s national and economic security. I would like the SBA to survey the investments that are currently being done. When the legislature comes back they can make statutory changes to say that the Communist Party of China is not a vehicle that we want to be entangled with. I think that that would be something that would be very, very prudent. I also think that our country as a whole but certainly Florida would like to see more production and manufacturing re-shored and we would be a great place to do that.”

“The idea of American elites was if you let China into WTO, that’ll make them more like us. U.S. elites are the #1 reason China is so powerful. Not only have we NOT influenced China to be more like the Western tradition — but China is influencing the West.” @GovRonDeSantis today pic.twitter.com/Ty0nZ5GARB

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) December 20, 2021