Columnist extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson points out in a recent column that China isn’t letting the pandemic it created go to waste.

Rather, China is shedding its former friendly image to go full bore nasty guy.

In a closing observation after explaining how China has gotten rich and saved its money with an unfair trading system – not just with the U.S., but the entire western world, Hanson writes:

“While America tears itself apart with endless internal quarreling and media psychodramas, while Europe appeases its enemies, and while the rest of Asia stays mute, waiting to see who wins, China is now on the move – without apologies.”

He also observed that in conjunction with the U.S. internal feuding last week, China attempted to strangle what was left of Hong Kong’s enfeebled democracy. China’s theory seemed to be that if it’s going to be blamed for the spreading virus due to its deceit anyway, it might as well not let such a pandemic go to waste.

Hanson also related:

“The Chinese strategy in reaction to disclosures that it hid vital data about the virus and exposed the world to contagion while it quarantined its own cities has devolved from “So what?” to the current “What exactly are you going to do about it?”

China Ramping Up Confrontations With Neighbors

“China also decided to ramp up its perennial border confrontations with India, as its forces encroached on Indian soil in the Himalayas. What better way to show the world that a defiant China is dangerous than agitate the world’s largest democracy?

“Beijing has warned European nations that if their independent media continued to condemn China, there could be commercial retaliation. A few European journalists still exposed Chinese deceit, even as shaken EU leaders backtracked and tried to contextualize Chinese misbehavior.

“Japan and South Korea worried that China might move on Taiwan. They knew that if China did, only the United States – convulsed by quarantines, riots and a contentious presidential race – could stand up to Beijing.

For years, China has bullied and waged a virtual commercial war against Asian democracies such as Japan, South Korea, India and Australia. It has subverted almost all international trading norms.

“The Chinese government assumed that western elites would get rich by being complicit in China’s cheating and would thus help sell out their own countries. They were mostly right on both counts.”

The American major media shed any image of fair and honest journalism with its slanted reporting of both the coronavirus pandemic and the rioting of recent days.

Riots Were Never About Floyd

The riots were never about justice for George Floyd (Americans were almost 100 percent in favor of that) in Minneapolis, but rather to create dissension in America with the hope that it would allow the left to prevail in this year’s national elections.

The fake news media planted itself firmly in the Chinese corner.

They spent a week condoning and urging rioting.

Only the ideologically blind could have missed it.

Leftist media and politicians spent an entire week softening the picture of the destruction of thousands of businesses.

It seems the only way they could have been happier would have been to cause a revolution that would have brought down the entire U.S. government, especially that part about the rules of law and order.

You know, that part that keeps average people – of all hues and income levels – secure in their homes and workplaces.

Elites Urge Closing Police Departments

A number of “elites” have signed an open letter urging the closing of police departments.

That would be good enough for them – but not normals – when the rioters and looters broke down the gates at their multi-gated communities and began destroying their BMW’s and mansions. Threatening their personal safety would bring on a whole new level of hysteria.

One metropolitan journalist last week was caught first texting looters to burn people’s property, then quickly changing his tune when a mob got close to his residence.

Jane Fonda, John Legend, Megan Rapinoe and even the head of the ACLU, all signed a letter demanding the end of policing.

“Policing and militarization overwhelmingly dominate the bulk of national and local budgets. In fact, police and military funding has increased every single year since 1973, and at the same time, funding for public health decreased every year,” the letter reads.

Of course, it is a lie on both points.

Only people who want to believe a lie would believe the nonsense

Derek Hunter, writing on Townhall says:

“The truth is all these people – the elected and the mob – take comfort in knowing the police are there when they need them. When something happens to them, even the most violent trust-fund ANTIFA mutant liberal will call for them.”

The elite would squeal like a pig caught under a gate if they were threatened and no police came.

The events last week were all about politics and an opportunity to defeat President Donald Trump, and even more exciting to the left, possibly fomenting a national revolution that would replace America’s constitutional government, including its law and order.

Fortunately, most Americans realize how foolish such thinking is despite a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day a-week dose of left-wing propaganda on television, magazines and some big city newspapers.