Obama Blames Trump For China's Rise

[Ubiquitous]

Way off in the Land Down Under, former President Barack Obama blamed his
White House successor Donald Trump for China’s increasingly antagonistic
behavior.

Obama talked foreign policy during a paid speaking tour appearance Tuesday in
Sydney — part of a lucrative arrangement that reportedly could net him
upwards of $1 million.

In talking with former Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop,
Obama said Chinese leader Xi Jinping has a “forceful and confident” demeanor,
according to reporting by Daily Mail Australia and NCA Newswire.

https://youtu.be/chpoe2dQpWE

The Democrat said China began to change “once I left office” in 2017 when
Trump entered the White House following his victory over Obama’s preferred
candidate Hillary Clinton.

“With my successor coming in, I think he saw an opportunity because the U.S.
president didn’t seem to care that much about a rules-based international
system,” Obama said of Xi.

“And so as a consequence, I think China’s attitude as well, we can take
advantage of what appears to be a vacuum internationally on a lot of these
issues,” Obama said.

Even as he worked to strike a deal, Trump waged a trade war against China
during his four years in office, which included steep tariffs on imports in
what he said was an effort to reverse a deficit that disadvantaged the United
States. In Trump’s stated view, it was his predecessors, including Obama, who
allowed China to become so powerful.

“They took advantage of us for many, many years,” Trump told Fox News host
Steve Hilton in 2019. “And I blame us, I don’t blame them. I don’t blame
President Xi. I blame all of our presidents, and not just President Obama.
You go back a long way. You look at President Clinton, Bush — everybody. They
allowed this to happen, they created a monster. We rebuilt China because they
get so much money.”

Now, more than two years into the presidency of Joe Biden, who served under
Obama as vice president, U.S. intelligence officials are warning that China
has become the biggest national security threat to the United States. Last
week, more than a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine, Xi met with Russian
President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where they struck deals that further
cemented economic ties between their two countries.

During the event in Australia, Obama reportedly observed that relations
between the United States and China are “significantly strained” and
predicted that tensions are not “going to go away anytime soon.”

“Nor should they, because I think there are some fundamental differences in
terms of how we operate when you look at the South China Sea,” Obama said,
referring to Beijing’s territorial dispute with many of its neighbors in
Asia.

“The fact of the matter is, is that if China starts claiming what had
previously been international waters that is going to make life difficult for
its neighbors, and for everyone, long term, I don’t even think it’s going to
be good for China,” Obama said.

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Let's go Brandon!

[NoBody]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:05:16 -0400, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net>
wrote:

>Way off in the Land Down Under, former President Barack Obama blamed his
>White House successor Donald Trump for China’s increasingly antagonistic
>behavior.
>
>Obama talked foreign policy during a paid speaking tour appearance Tuesday in
>Sydney — part of a lucrative arrangement that reportedly could net him
>upwards of $1 million.
>
>In talking with former Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop,
>Obama said Chinese leader Xi Jinping has a “forceful and confident” demeanor,
>according to reporting by Daily Mail Australia and NCA Newswire.
>
>https://youtu.be/chpoe2dQpWE
>
>The Democrat said China began to change “once I left office” in 2017 when
>Trump entered the White House following his victory over Obama’s preferred
>candidate Hillary Clinton.
>
>“With my successor coming in, I think he saw an opportunity because the U.S.
>president didn’t seem to care that much about a rules-based international
>system,” Obama said of Xi.
>

And of course Obama ignores that they became far MORE aggressive once
Biden came in. Somehow that's Trump's fault too...