China “has been preparing for war” with the United States for “decades” Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has warned.
Appearing to take a swipe at ‘woke’ culture, the former US ambassador to the United Nations said that China is modernising its military – while US Armed Forces are “taking gender pronoun classes”.
Voicing her concerns about Beijing’s military build-up, Haley told Fox News Sunday: “China is much more than a mere ‘competitor.’ Communist China is an enemy. We have to stop wasting time.”
Warning that China’s military was now “ahead of us” She continued: “If you look at the military situation, they now have the largest naval fleet in the world. They have 340 ships, we have 293. They’re going to have 400 In two years, we won’t even have 350 in two decades.”
“They have started developing hypersonic missiles. We’re just now getting started.”
“They are modernizing their military. Our military’s taking gender pronoun classes
“Look at what they’re doing on cyber, artificial intelligence, space. They’re ahead of us.”
“China has been preparing for war with us for decades. And the way we have to deal with China is [to] not look at it tomorrow, because if we keep waiting to deal with them tomorrow, they will deal with us today.”
Haley described China as the “most dangerous foreign threat we’ve faced since the Second World War”. And she suggested the US may need to rethink its trade relationship with China
However, a spokesperson at the Chinese embassy suggested Haley’s “election campaign will end up on the ash heap of history”.
They told Reuters: “Pushing American companies to leave China runs counter to economic laws, and will ultimately harm everyone’s interests.
“Only those who draw attention by smearing and blame-shifting in the election campaign will end up on the ash heap of history.”
Haley also vowed to stop China from buying up farmland in the US – and suggested China was to blame for the Fentanyl crisis. She threatened to end normal economic ties with China in an effort to stem the flow of the powerful illegal opioid across the US-Mexico border.
Most of the illegal fentanyl entering the US is manufactured in Mexico using Chinese precursor chemicals. Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Anne Milgram echoed the sentiment in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press host Chuck Todd.
Milgram said the US has “not had the cooperation that we want to have” with either the Mexican government or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the issue.
