Manufacturing consent for war on China?

US Attorney General escalating rhetoric aimed at China

By Ryan Fahey

The attorney general said China is a bigger threat than Russia 'geopolitically, economically, militarily and a threat to the integrity of our institutions'

April 10, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - US General Attorney Bill Barr has called China America's biggest threat and says the danger posed by the communist country is 'very serious' amid escalating tensions with Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic. 

In an interview yesterday, amid rising anti-China rhetoric from the administration about Beijing's alleged 'cover-up' of its coronavirus infection rate, Barr was asked whether he considered Russia or China the biggest security risk to the upcoming presidential election.

'In my opinion, it's China', Barr told FoxNews. 'Not just to the election process, but, I think, across the board.' 

'There's simply no comparison,' Barr added. 'China is a very serious threat to the United States - geopolitically, economically, militarily, and a threat to the integrity of our institutions, given their ability to influence things.'

He also said:  “The Chinese are engaged in a full-court blitzkrieg of stealing American technology, trying to influence our political system, trying to steal secrets at our research universities and so forth.' 

The attorney general's comments come amid a growing international feud over the World Health Organisation's response to cornavirus and whether it was hoodwink by a Chinese cover-up of the extent of its cronavirus pandemic.

President Trump has called has called the WHO 'China-centric' and complained they 'missed the call' when it came to the coronavirus - and Peter Navarro added fuel to the fire Wednesday night when he slammed WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu as one of China’s 'proxies'. 

In an interview yesterday Bill Barr said that China, not Russia, was the biggest threat to the United States 'geopolitically, economically, militarily'