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The Chinese government propaganda outlet Global Times, which recently blamed leftist President Joe Biden for single-handedly tanking the Democrats’ prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, declared in an analysis on Tuesday that inflation will be a “fatal weakness” for the party in November.
Americans will be going to the polls on November 8 to participate in a variety of elections of Congressmen, Senators, governors, and positions in local government. Biden’s performance as president is likely to be at the top of voters’ concerns, given that control of both houses of Congress – and thus Biden’s ability to pass policy changes through – is on the ballot.
While Biden himself has close ties with many regime-linked Chinese elites and regularly boasts of his allegedly intimate personal relationship with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping, Chinese state vehicles routinely attack Biden for not doing enough to undo the anti-communist trade policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and for moves made by Congress to contain the impact of China’s Uyghur slave trade or its dominance of the computer chip industry.
The Global Times observed increasingly dire predictions in American media regarding the economy on Monday, particularly forecasts suggesting that a recession is inevitable. The outlet contrasted that with the Biden administration’s repeated assurances that any economic damage under its performance will be minimal or transitory.
Fifty-six percent of Americans say President Joe Biden’s 40-year-high inflation has caused them hardship, up from 49 percent in January and 45 percent in November, a Gallup poll found this week. https://t.co/5axxAh8o9s
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“While US President Joe Biden has said the US will avoid a recession and that any downturn would be ‘very slight,’” the Global Times assessed, “the rise in recession expectations indicates how poorly the Biden administration has fared in terms of both boosting the economy and bringing down inflation, which will be a fatal weakness for Democrats in the upcoming elections.”
The column also condemned the Biden administration for “fanning the flames in the Russia-Ukraine conflict” by supporting Ukraine with weapons and the Federal Reserve for raising loan interest rates in an attempt to contain the very same inflation the newspaper acknowledged was such a priority to Americans that the ruling party would endure a decisive electoral loss next month.
