Secretary of State Blinken ripped for 'rather soft' speech on China threat

Former Special Assistant to George W. Bush Michael Allen commented on Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s world-regions as the United States’ most serious long-term threat. On “America’s Newsroom” Friday, Allen argued Blinken delivered a ‘soft speech’ given the high stakes of China’s growing threat to global security and demanded a strong approach to protect American interests. 

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MICHAEL ALLEN: Secretary Blinken laid out a strategy yesterday that the United States should invest, align with its allies and compete with China. I thought it was a rather soft speech, given the stakes. I thought it should have been more about how to blunt and confront China. One, China has doubled the size of their military over the last ten years. I would have liked to have heard more about what the United States’ strategy is to world-regions. And I’d like to hear more about how American jobs are affected by the confrontation with China. At a minimum, they steal millions, sometimes billions of dollars in intellectual property here in the United States through cyber theft and other means. And we need to get a handle on these kind of things so that we have a foreign policy that helps with the United States’ workers. 

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