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The top House Republican on foreign policy warns that China and Russia have formed an “unholy alliance” against the United States and that the Biden administration is failing to deter aggressive Russian and Chinese actions on the world stage.
President Biden’s “projection of weakness” in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal was a turning point in foreign adversary aggression, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, who warned over the weekend that Russian and Chinese strategic collaboration has since been rising.
“Because of [Mr. Biden’s] projection of weakness … when Afghanistan imploded … that is when everything changed,” Mr. McCaul said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.”
“Afghanistan was a turning point,” the Texas Republican said. “It was a disaster, we left Americans behind, Afghan partners behind.”
At a moment when many analysts describe the rise of a Cold War 2.0 between the U.S. and Western democracies on one side and China and Russia on the other, Mr. McCaul argued that Washington should be pursuing a “peace through strength” foreign policy.
Former President Ronald Reagan pushed that doctrine during the 1980s, and many have credited it with bringing about the end of the Cold War between the U.
