This may be a controversial take, but it is one that must be said: The Chinese Communist Party is worthy of being criticized. Dare I say, the CCP is bad.
This may be news to some, including Philip Bump of the Washington Post. Bump’s apparent grand takeaway from the second GOP presidential debate was that Republicans are increasingly using “the Chinese Communist Party” or “the CCP” as a “pejorative.” His analysis included such groundbreaking discoveries as Republican politicians and Fox News increasingly talked about the CCP after the COVID-19 pandemic that spread the virus across the world.
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Truly, where would we be without this level of political “analysis.”
The implication of Bump’s piece is that the CCP is not a serious concern but a talking point. He focuses on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci, which Bump, of course, says is supposed to highlight DeSantis’s “disregard” for COVID lockdowns, and the word “woke,” which he dismisses as meaningless and anti-diversity as a Democratic Party drone would. According to Bump, the CCP is just another Fox News/GOP talking point that “pits America against communism” for the 2024 elections.
This is a very strange article. DeSantis is not the first person to notice that China is ruled by Communists or to use the acronym "CCP" to refer to its ruling authority. It's difficult to even understand what the argument is here. https://t.co/ezZ7HR2zUJ
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) September 28, 2023
This is no doubt a touchy subject for the Washington Post, which ran CCP propaganda as advertisements for more than 30 years. But labeling criticism of the CCP as just some partisan trend being used for political gain ignores just how evil the party is and the danger it poses to global peace and stability.
The CCP covered up the severity (and almost certainly the lab leak) of the COVID-19 virus, allowing it to spread across the world with little understanding of it. The CCP has been running concentration camps in Xinjiang and carrying out a genocide of the Uyghur Muslims. It crushed democracy in Hong Kong and is continuing to pursue military expansion by threatening to invade Taiwan. China is supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I see that the charts in the article show an increase in 2020, I would say a lot of people in the world became worried about China's form of governance at that moment, when a virus they should've contained went around the world and killed millions of people..
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 28, 2023
It should be expected that presidential candidates such as the ones Bump mentions by name (DeSantis, former President Donald Trump, and Vivek Ramaswamy) have a focus on the CCP, especially after the CCP was responsible for a global pandemic. If Bump really wanted a pedantic article about political vocabularies, he could look at why Democrats are much more nonchalant about China’s human rights abuses, military expansionism, and role as an enemy of American interests.
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Then again, that would require him to look at why President Joe Biden has been so soft on China for decades, and we can’t have that at the Washington Post now, can we?
The risk of looking at politics solely through the lens of rabid partisanship is that you dismiss serious concerns as political ploys or talking points. Too many Republicans did that with President Vladimir Putin’s Russia over the last several years, and Bump is doing the same here with China. The CCP is not a talking point or a pejorative. It is a serious threat to human rights and global peace and security. It would be nice if liberal media could treat it as such.