29 April 2020

China bashing is the new American sport

Gerard Baker
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Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has been struggling to gain attention in the face of the national coronavirus emergency. Anyone would find it hard to compete for airtime against the combination of a lethal epidemic and a media-hungry president with nightly access to a soapbox. However, the former vice-president’s near-invisibility has worried some in his party who fear it fuels doubts about the leadership potential of a 77-year-old man whose occasional live television forays have been marked by a succession of verbal miscues and hints of cognitive decline.

So late last week the people around him decided it was time to muscle in more aggressively on the public consciousness. A campaign group closely associated with his presidential bid released a political advertisement


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