EXCLUSIVE Interview: SenTomCotton sounds the alarm on China — are they finally listening?
sat for an interview this week entirely focused on the U.S. relationship with the country. He shared his frustration with the Biden administration’s refusal to acknowledge the scale of the China threat militarily, as well as the deadly impact that China's Communist Party has on everyone's life.Your reaction at the time to the media’s meltdown over your suggestion that the virus may have originated from Chinese communist labs in Wuhan?I was surprised at the time.
But so, I don't fault anybody for the steps they took in February or March. In some cases, I was recommending those steps as a precautionary matter, but I also don't fault people like Brian Kemp for opening Georgia back up. Remember, he did that at the end of April, I think. I think it was Trump had recommended 15 days the end of March and then recommended another 30 days.
And I said,"You know what? Rather than let me tell you what I think we should do, let me just ask you what you think we should do. Let me frame it like this. We've lost over a hundred thousand Americans to fentanyl every year for the last several years. It's almost twice what we lost in Vietnam. Every year, year after year after year, it's almost what we've lost in every war combined since the Second World War. That's the scale of this crisis.
And I think he met that morning or maybe the previous day across the park at the Hay Adams with senior executives of all the major Wall Street financial institutions, basically asking them to go to lobby on China's behalf. I don't know if they did or not, but they did just interrupt talking about the China lobby. My former governor asked me repeatedly early in the Trump era to meet with the Chinese consul general from Houston in Arkansas, and I declined.
It has already happened [in] every state all around the country. I mean, look at, why were Chinese spies hanging around with Eric Swalwell back when he was a local politician? They're out there, trying to cultivate rising politicians. So when they get to Washington, they've already got a relationship with them. And oftentimes, it's just unwitting.
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