War With Mexico Is a Proxy War With China
MAGA is aching for a war with Mexico. Racist and imperialist? Sure. But it’s also “great-power competition.”
Gordon Chang1 is everything that’s wrong with foreign policy punditry.
The New Yorker described him as a “longtime uberhawk.” For more than two decades, he has been predicting (and calling for) the collapse of China on the basis of no real evidence. He accused South Korean president Moon Jae-in of being a North Korean agent. He’s a regular at CPAC—the annual conference that has been taken over by MAGA. And he promoted the idea that Covid-19 was a Chinese bioweapon that attacked America and the world.
Nevertheless, he somehow also occasionally goes on mainstream morning shows and writes for mainstream newspapers as a talking head who specializes in Asia, sharing his “expertise” with unwitting anchors and audiences. He’s even giving a special lecture at the Mackinder Forum (a Washington-minded gathering of geopoliticians) in November with the subtle title: “Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America.”
In his latest op-ed, he fuses anti-immigration discourse with China-threat discourse: