We now face a military collaboration between the Chinese Communist government and the Cuban government to establish a military facility in Cuba, undoubtedly with the intent of inflicting serious future harm on the United States (“Backyard threat,” June 21).
The Chinese Communist Party is also buying large tracts of land near sensitive US military installations, yet no laws have been enacted to prevent it from continuing this practice.
A Chinese spy balloon also crossed the United States for several days gathering crucial nuclear information, yet no effort was made to take out the balloon until it reached South Carolina and its mission had been long accomplished.
Would these lax responses to Communist aggression be permitted if the present administration weren’t committed to a policy of appeasement? Did personal financial enrichment of the Biden family influence this absurd policy?
A.J. Linn
Manhattan
After the shooting-down of China’s spy balloon, President Biden said it was “carrying two freight cars’ worth of spying equipment.”
But, in advance of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to Beijing, Biden also said he didn’t think the CCP leadership “knew where it was, knew what it was in it and what was going on.”
It’s hard to believe that corrupt, old Uncle Joe (or Beijing Biden) is the leader of the free world.
Instead of peace through strength, the Biden administration offers up peace through supplication to America’s preeminent foe. The president seems clearly compromised.
James Hyland
Queens
The White House is now trying to bolster its tenuous and often criticized relationship with China by giving into anything that China happens to want.
So, a question: Why are US companies and citizens standing idly by and not taking the initiative? Why aren’t they doing what the Biden administration should have started doing long ago?
Start hitting China on what Beijing deems most valuable, like its economic power. Corporations should be leaving while the getting-out is still good.
Remember when Nike led manufacturers out of Japan — going to China for cheaper labor?
Manufacturers should now be leaving China because the labor and potential political costs will eventually come home to roost.
Short-term corporate profit will lead to long-term disaster. Accountability now, at the highest levels, is the answer.
Harry Ruffalo
Phoenix, Ariz.
So Joe Biden sends Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing in order to avoid any future conflicts. But to no avail: President Xi Jinping won’t oblige.
Of course Biden, who has capitalized monetarily via Hunter, took a sabbatical and sent one of his staff to do the dirty work.
Biden is merely appeasing Communist China rather than stepping up to the plate. He’s allowing America to be bullied and thus conceding militarily.
Giving China a free pass is not a display of strength. That’s a trait America has proven to be sorely lacking in under the Biden administration.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
Biden’s quote regarding China’s spy balloon escapade — “I don’t think the leadership knew where it was, and knew what was in it, and knew what was going on” — sounds like a quote more accurately describing his entire presidential term.
Brian Sullivan
Queens
To any American who still questions Biden’s involvement with the Chinese, Joe just removed any doubt.
He has the temerity to give the Chinese president a pass regarding the spy balloon traversing our sensitive military areas.
Either he has totally lost his ability to reason or he has sold out to the Chinese for Biden family enrichment. I believe that both reasons are possible and probable.
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown