Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has "done nothing for 40 years" to stand up against the threat posed by China, but if President Donald Trump is reelected, "we'll ensure that America remains the world's dominant power, not the Chinese Communist Party," Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday.
"I think Barack Obama's own secretary of defense put it well when he said Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major national security decision in the last 40 years," the Arkansas Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," referring to former Secretary Robert Gates' memoir.
"Let's take China," Cotton said. "Joe Biden said that China, as recently as last year, is not our competitor and not bad folks. He toasted the rise of China consistent with more than 40 years of failures to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party. He voted to give China most favored nation status and supported their accession to the World Trade Organization. "
A contrast was seen as far back as January between Trump and Biden at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, he added, when Trump shut down travel from China and Biden called the action "racist and xenophobic."
"If Joe Biden had been in office there we would have still had more than 20,000 Chinese nationals landing on our shores every day wasting critical time that we used to help build ventilators or develop PPP [personal protective equipment] stockpiles in the winter," said Cotton.
Trump has also led an "almost Manhattan Project-level" effort to develop new treatments against coronavirus, while Biden has "no real proposals" that haven't already been done.
Cotton will speak for the Republican National Convention Thursday, and he said he plans to share the message that Biden is "weak and wrong for America."
"He will not stand up to defend America and he will exercise the same terrible judgment he has been showing since 1973 when he first got to Washington," said the senator.
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