China Is the World's Moral Authority?

Minnesota governor and Kamala Harris's 2024 running mate Tim Walz has demonstrated one more reason why we can be relieved that his bid to become our vice president failed. When asked whether he thought the U.S. could broker peace between Israel and Iran, he gave this response:

Now, who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement in this? Who holds the moral authority? Who holds the ability to do that? Because we are not seen as a neutral actor, and we maybe never were.

I don’t want to tell anybody that. I think there’s a lot of people who say you always lean one way in this, but I think there was at least an attempt to be somewhat of the arbitrator in this. We saw President Carter do it with [Menachem] Begin and [Anwar] Sadat.

We’ve had certain wins along the way that were actually mutually beneficial both ways,” Walz continued. “Now I ask who that is. I mean, consistently over and over again, we’re going to have to face the reality, it might be the Chinese.

If Walz believes China has any moral authority at all then he's stunningly ignorant. If he doesn't believe it but said it anyway, then he's dangerously dishonest.

China has lied about, among other things, the origins and deadliness of the Wuhan virus, they've cheated on their World Trade Organization commitments, they've stolen our technology, fraudulently interfered on behalf of Biden in the 2020 election, persecuted and oppressed Christians, imprisoned, tortured, and harvested the organs of Falun Gong and Uyghurs who languish today in concentration camps, and facilitated the deaths of thousands of Americans by providing drug cartels with the precursors of fentanyl.

Moreover, they slaughtered as many as 8 million Chinese in their 1949 revolution and as many as 2 million more in their "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). They killed several thousand pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989, threatened to precipitate a war with the U.S. by invading Taiwan, deliberately addicted our kids on apps that turn their minds to jelly, deprived their own people of basic freedoms, and aided Russia in their slaughter of Ukrainians. And there's probably more.

Like all communist regimes the Chinese communists are totalitarian, oppressive, and evil. They're among the last of nations to have any moral authority in this world, and if Tim Walz thinks otherwise then he has no business being in state or national politics.