Chinese State Media: Only ‘Open Border Fanatical Globalists’ Disagree with Trump on Immigration
China’s state-run
Global Times on Wednesday
published an op-ed praising President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and dismissing his critics as globalist fanatics.
This was, to put it mildly, a bit different from Chinese media’s coverage of the Trump administration in general, and the current wave of riots in particular.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) usually takes pains to portray itself as the champion of globalism and it has used the riots to attack the Trump administration from every conceivable angle, including the impressive stretch of
comparing the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese mega-corporations to the death of George Floyd.
On Wednesday, however, the
Global Times ran an op-ed by author Mario Cavolo, a senior fellow at the
Center for China and Globalization, which describes itself as a “leading Chinese non-government think tank based in Beijing.” Unlike most previous CCP editorials, this one was not terribly friendly to the looters and rioters, although Cavolo took pains to acknowledge that many are “rightfully aggrieved with yet another black man senselessly murdered in cold blood.”
The meat of Cavolo’s argument was that President Trump is right about the importance of strong borders and national sovereignty, and about the importance of individual civic responsibility over collective accusations of racial guilt:
President Trump is a populist and aggressive president, even if sometimes he offers proper presidential messages to the citizens and to the world. For example, it is easy for many to agree that a strong country needs a strong border and other laws to protect its society and its sovereignty.
Pure, open border fanatical globalists might disagree, but the majority agrees. Unfortunately, in Trump’s unique efforts to “drain the swamp”, he also runs his mouth in a Twitter feed that is often no better than a gossipy soap opera drama. It is surely not worthy of the president of the country, of any country.
We must see past these weaknesses at this very moment to understand though that President Trump is correct: that two wrongs don’t make a right, that individual responsibility to society is part of your civic duty as a citizen no matter what. In other words, he is 100 percent right that looting, that violence, destruction of property, assault of other citizens; each of these is a crime in and of itself without justification, without relation to the crime of George Floyd’s death.
China: Only ‘Open Border Fanatical Globalists’ Disagree with Trump