Today’s Headline: “JOE BIDEN ACCUSES PRESIDENT TRUMP OF BEING SOFT ON CHINA”

That’s a great way to rein in Bernie Sanders supporters and convince discontent voters who cry out for progressive policies to vote for him. It’s true that China at first didn’t release information about the coronavirus as it didn’t seem to be the menace that it turned out to be. That was wrong. But once the dimensions of the coronavirus became clear, the Chinese reacted strongly, consistently and successfully to confront the problem. Compare that with Trump’s flip flops. First he swore that the coronavirus was a Chinese problem and wouldn’t affect the U.S. in a big way, then he took on the mantle of being a war-time president, then he said that the problem was the competency of the governors (so as not to assume responsibility for what was happening in the country), and more recently he has encouraged his supporters to protest against the measures dictated by both Democratic and Republican governors. That’s what Biden ought to be talking about. By playing to people’s fears and prejudices against China, Biden becomes part of the problem, not the solution.