State Dept. Official Can’t Talk About China Without Getting Real Racist
The United States, over the years, has had many enemies. Britain. Germany (a couple times). Spain. Italy. Japan. The USSR. North Korea. Vietnam. Most of Latin America at one point or another. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iraq again. In the current world order, U.S. leadership sees China’s burgeoning economic and military power as a threat to its hegemony. Also, U.S. leadership would like to point out, isn’t it crazy that Chinese people aren’t “Caucasian?” Wild.
That was essentially the point of one of Kiron Skinner’s answers at Arizona State University’s Future Security Forum earlier this week. Skinner, a former Bush surrogate and author of multiple books about how great Ronald Reagan was, is currently director of policy planning at the State Department. Skinner was comparing the U.S.’s rivalry with China to the Cold War, and briefly slipped into a reductive, racist characterization of the Chinese.