Wants to create an international order where China can be controlled: Vance

Washington, August 11: Identifying China as both a competitor and an adversary, Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance said on Sunday that his party wants to create a robust international framework in which the US can “check” Beijing.
“I think they are both, right, and I think what we’re trying to do here is create some kind of international order where we can keep an eye on China,” Vance told CBS in an interview when asked whether he sees Beijing as a competitor or an adversary.
“We don’t want to go to war with China, but they are certainly an adversary … the Chinese know for example that they are producing tons of fentanyl, they are allowing it into our country. (Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris has done nothing about it,” Vance said on Face the Nation.
He said Harris should put diplomatic and economic pressure on the Chinese to stop the production of fentanyl, which is smuggled into the country by Mexican drug cartels and then shipped to the US.
In response to a question, Vance said China should be warned about this.
“You walk into Beijing, you talk to (President) Xi Jinping and you say, your entire economy is going to collapse if you don’t get access to the American market. You have to take this fentanyl seriously or we are going to impose severe tariffs and economic penalties for not following our laws and not helping to stem the flow of this deadly poison,” he said.
According to Vance, it is unlikely that this will have any consequences for the US economy.
“I think we have a powerful economy, with the best workers in the world. If we have to fight a trade war with the Chinese, we will do it and we will win, but we cannot do what Kamala Harris has done, which is to be so afraid to use the economic power that we have that she is not even prepared to stop the flow of this deadly poison coming into our country,” he asserted. (PTI)