China Is Filling the “Biden Gap”
Joe Biden’s catastrophic military, diplomatic, trade and economic policies are turning America into a weak and irrelevant bystander on the world stage.
Is the American Century over?
It is if the Biden administration has anything to say about it. A catalogue of deliberate policy decision since Joe Biden took office provides a clear and utterly damning picture of an America destroying itself that all the world sees. Every day, the gap between what we are today and what we were just a few short years ago, widens. This “Biden Gap” that’s distancing America from its previously undisputed global supremacy certainly didn’t begin with Joe Biden, but it is coming to its final stages under his administration.
America Withdraws from Global Leadership
The Biden Gap that consists of the rapid decline in both America’s will to lead and its ability to do so is quickly is unravelling the U.S. postwar order post haste. There are consequences to decline and we’re seeing them now. Much of the world has stopped looking to America for guidance, leadership. As a result, China is rapidly displacing the U.S. as the world’s economic, political and even military leader.
Sadly, there are plenty examples of this.
America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan is just one example, but a significant one. Biden’s unprecedented reckless and hasty withdrawal left 13 Americans dead and 100s more stranded in Afghanistan, and is emblematic of our absence of influence the world’s affairs today. Furthermore, by withdrawing the way in which we did, the Biden administration armed our adversaries in the region to the teeth with billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. tanks, aircraft, weaponry and other advanced fighting material.
It also left our allies bitter at our betrayal and emboldened our enemies.
Europe Sees China as the Global Power
For instance, French President Macron and European Union President Ursula Von der Leyden are in Beijing at this writing, trying to convince CCP leader Xi Jinping to tell Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine.
They’re also angling to increase trade with China. The U.S. is not even a part of the conversation, even though it is the primary source of arms for Ukraine’s war with Russia.
What does that tell us about what the world thinks about America’s leadership capabilities under the Biden administration?
Everything.
Beijing the Peacemaker?
The recent peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran brokered by China is another example the “Biden Gap” that is fueling American irrelevance. Just a few years ago, it was the U.S. under the Trump administration that was brokering historic peace deals between Israel and several Islamic countries.
Not anymore.
Biden Backstabbing Allies and Comforting Enemies
If anything, the Biden administration is backstabbing Israel, our only ally in the region, and emboldening Iran by treating the mullahs in Tehran better than he does the Israeli government.
Hong Kong is another example. Once the Biden administration was in office, Beijing swiftly took over Hong Kong without any response from the U.S. Yes, the pandemic played a role, but the Biden administration did nothing to dissuade, deter or punish the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for breaking the 50-year agreement they made regarding Hong Kong.
Japan Rushes to Fill the Biden Gap in Far East
In the Far East, Japan is re-arming itself as quickly as possible, especially in light of the real possibility that China will invade Taiwan at some point in the near future. It has also notified the U.S. that it will no longer be passive partner in its defense. In fact, as a result of China’s aggressive posture in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan will be selling arms to its regional neighbors such as Philippines, Malaysia and others, as well as doubling its defense budget over the next few years.
Destroying the Dollar
All of these actions by Japan are in response to the growing doubts about America’s willingness and capabilities to live up to its security guarantees in the region. Additionally, the Biden administration has added several trillion in debt, which has triggered inflation. All of these events and policies have undercut the world’s confidence in America and turned many nations against using the U.S. dollar, endangering its reserve status.
The Border Gap Widens
Closer to home, the open U.S.-Mexico border is both figuratively and literally the most compelling symbol of the Biden Gap. Along with millions of illegal aliens entering the country, tons of fentanyl (made in China) are too, killing our young people at record levels. Chinese nationals, cartel criminals and human trafficking are all thriving as the Biden Gap continues to widen and welcome them. Meanwhile, morale in the Border Patrol is at an all-time low.
All of it is a result of the Biden administration.
A Reversal of the Trump Years
It’s important to note out that President Trump faced the very same challenges that Joe Biden has faced, but accomplished very different outcomes for America.
For example, during the last two years of the Trump administration, when Beijing was doing all it could to bring Hong Kong to heel, Trump tied tariffs on Chinese goods to the CCP’s behavior toward Hong Kong.
In Afghanistan, the planned, phased withdrawal that was planned during the Trump administration was abandoned. The Biden team replaced it with the tragedy that occurred, and from which America has yet to recover and the world remembers all too well.
As for the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal crossing were down and the “Remain in Mexico” policy reduced the flow of migrants crossing into the U.S.
In every aspect, strategically, militarily, politically, financially and even concerning our own border, the Biden Administration is deconstructing the American-led world order at a breath-taking pace. And at every turn, as America fades from its self-inflicted wounds, China is filling the void.
The world just might survive the widening Biden Gap–at least for a while–but will America?
