Fact-Checking Trump and Harris on China
On the menu today: Tuesday night’s presidential debate did feature some brief comments about China, even if the moderators didn’t ask about our preeminent foreign-policy challenge even once. Harris’s accusation that Trump “sold us out” on China and semiconductors is highly misleading, and the Biden administration’s bans on Chinese use of the chips are as leaky as a sieve. Finally, while I’ll give Kamala Harris a gold star for remembering the unanswered questions about the origin of Covid-19 and the Chinese government’s stonewalling of international investigative efforts, there’s little reason...