Jonah Goldberg: China’s faltering economy is a result of state-directed planning. Now comes the global fallout
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 29, 2023
3 minutes
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” scoffed then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019. Two years later, now president Biden declared: “The Chinese are eating our lunch. They’re eating our lunch, economically. They’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars in research and development. … We got to compete.”
Mario Cuomo famously said politicians, “campaign in poetry, but govern in prose.” But in this case, the poet was closer to the
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