BYRON YORK
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: Some called the president a Russian asset, a traitor, Putin s patsy and much, much more.
It was all nonsense, because behind the rhetoric was the stark reality that Trump, and his administration, have actually been tougher on Russia than many of his predecessors. Now, with the president on the way out, one lone voice in the anti-Trump press CNN, specifically has spoken the truth out loud.
On CNN s New Day on New Year s morning, the network s Fareed Zakaria was asked how U.S. Russia policy under President Joe Biden might differ from policy under President Trump. I think, in general, there isn t going to be as much difference as people imagine, Zakaria said. The Biden folks are pretty tough on Russia, Iran, North Korea. You know, the dirty little secret about the Trump administration was that while Donald Trump clearly had a kind o
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying accused the Trump administration of lying diplomacy after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Beijing as the least transparent of the five United Nations Security Council members.
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: some called the president a Russian asset,
On Monday, a
Newsweek op-ed co-authored by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US arms control envoy Marshal Billingslea was republished on the State Department website under the title, “China’s Nuclear Madness.”
In the piece, the US officials accused Beijing of being the “least transparent” of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council when it comes to nuclear weapons. They also complained about how the US has been restrained by “ineffective arms-control agreements” while China has been building its arsenal.
Hua Chunying, China’s China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, hit back and accused the US of conducting “lying diplomacy.” Hua said the US “arbitrarily” withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, an arms control agreement that limited the development of medium-range ballistic missiles, that the Trump administration pulled out of in 2019.