Matt Taibi was on Bill Maher’s HBO show defending Pelosi saying what she did is cool and principled because China is a “human rights violator” and it’s “worth taking a stance sometimes.”
And it’s because of the “donors” with commercial interests in China that most politicians are reluctant to speak out.
Hero.
I hope the sanctions have at least some material consequence.
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There's a gain of truth to this, but it really boils down to "China is the center of the global economy and nobody shamelessly yoked to Cold War politics seriously wants to butt heads with them."
I genuinely wonder if a day will come when someone just flips a switch on the media from "China Bad" to "China Good" because that's where the money is at