The terrible delusions of US-China business council chief Craig Allen

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China is America’s adversary and must be restrained for the sake of global prosperity and freedom.

I note this in the context of some profoundly idiotic comments by Craig Allen, head of the U.S.-China business council on Tuesday. Debating the Trump administration’s constraint of China’s Huawei telecommunications firm, Allen lamented “The administration has provided no public evidence that Huawei is more dangerous than say Nokia or Ericsson.” He continued, “Prohibiting American companies from dealing with them is more like murder … if a stranger knocks at your door you don’t have to let [Huawei] in, but do you have the right to take a gun and shoot them. And that is the analogy that the Chinese use. I got that from a Chinese internet leader.”

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