China wants to ‘raid’ US, not trade with it, says Donald Trump’s ex-attorney general William Barr
- US firms are too close to Beijing, which is on an ‘economic blitzkrieg’ to surpass the US, Barr says in a new book about his time in Trump’s administration
- As the top US law enforcement officer, Barr had played a leading role in Trump’s ‘China Initiative’, which drew accusations of racial discrimination
Former Attorney General William Barr criticises American companies for being too close to the Chinese government and argues for more regulation of US technology companies in a new book about his time in President Donald Trump’s administration.
China is engaged in “an economic blitzkrieg” using all instruments of national power “to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and surpass the United States as the world’s pre-eminent technological power”, Barr wrote in his almost 600-page memoir, One Damn Thing After Another.
Barr’s book, which goes on sale Tuesday, has received media attention for passages about his contentious interactions with Trump after the 2020 presidential election.
Barr wrote that the election was not stolen – Trump was legitimately defeated by Democrat Joe Biden. Barr also said that Trump “lost it” in the days after the election as he spun falsehoods that he was robbed of re-election by massive fraud.
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