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Trump's Iran, Venezuela Moves Are Putting the Squeeze on China

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Trump's Iran, Venezuela Moves Are Putting the Squeeze on China

President Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela and Iran are the first time that any president has made any progress against China’s decades old effort to peacefully subvert the U.S.It is no secret that China has two goals: to seize control of Taiwan and to become the lone global superpower by 2049, the centennial of the communist control over the country. China is our primary geopolitical rival, if not our mortal enemy.

Over the past few decades, China has successfully subverted the U.S. through globalization. The U.S. now depends on China for antibiotics, energy, technology hardware and vital rare earth minerals and their processing. China could shut off exports of these and other goods, and our economy, society and security would be crippled.

Yes, China would hurt itself by doing these things, but China is an iron-fisted totalitarian state where any social unrest would be much more easily (read brutally) addressed than in the U.S.

But there’s much more.

Some parts of the Chinese goods we have imported have been sabotaged. Utility scale batteries had to be removed from the U.S. Marine Corps base at Camp........

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