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The coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to restore American manufacturing and China should be held accountable for the crisis, said Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said the West is “reaping the whirlwind” for a policy of kowtowing to China after allowing supply chains to become dependant on the communist country.

The Chinese coronavirus “is emphatically a disease of globalization,” a pandemic historian at Yale University says.

David Brat, a former U.S. representative for Virginia and the dean of the Liberty University School of Business, spoke with Breitbart News during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he discussed the “supply chain mess” regarding China and the coronavirus.

Working-class Americans who have been betrayed by globalization of the United States’ economy are turning to President Trump’s economic nationalist Republican Party for support.

President Donald Trump asked Pentagon officials why America bears the burden of militarily defending Europe, said White House biographer Doug Wead, author of Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

Donald Trump’s advocacy for national sovereignty breaks from a globalist consensus held by George Bush and Barack Obama, said Charlie Kirk.

Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted “a lot of people were left behind” during his and President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House.

Barack Obama criticized a new “international elite” who are “cosmopolitan in their outlook” in a 2018 speech and drew little charge of antisemitism compared to Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) recent use of the same words.

The Apollo 11 moon landing’s lessons – particularly the need for national industrial policy – are being lost, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Friday that the “liberal language police” lost their minds over his usage of the word “cosmopolitan” to describe an out-of-touch elite who undermines American identity and the middle class.

The ruling class’s consensus in support of globalizing the American economy is working “quite well” for its architects, the “cosmopolitan class,” while leaving behind the “great American middle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.

The CEO of Western Union, the multinational corporation used by illegal aliens and legal immigrants to send remittances to their native countries, says the United States is “built on migrants” and predicts that globalization of the American economy will make a comeback.

Steve Hilton told Breitbart News that Joe Biden’s “personal corruption” includes “billions of dollars in bribes from the Chinese government.”

Guatemala’s Secretary of Strategic Intelligence Mario Duarte says migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are coming to the country for economic reasons and have been “weaponized” as a “picketing mob” for international open borders organizations.

Washington Examiner commentary editor Timothy Carney, author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, described the “destruction of a way of life” among “working class” people in rural and industrial regions wrought by the status quo of globalization in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Barack Obama derided the American nationalism of President Donald Trump’s supporters as rooted in a “hatred” of foreigners.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach says, “It’s time for all” illegal immigration and the taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens “to stop” less than 24 hours before state election.

Billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel described the consequences of contemporary globalization as being at odds with the promises of its proponents during a Wednesday speech at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping offered a rousing defense of globalism and suggested “the evolution of global governance system will have a profound impact on the development of all countries” during Wednesday’s opening of the BRICS summit in South Africa.

“The golden opportunity for Chinese start-ups to ‘go Latin’ may have arrived,” China’s state-run Global Times declared on Tuesday, pointing to the enormous increase in Chinese trade with Latin America over the past two decades and China’s promise to invest $250 billion in the decade to come.

At the Boao Forum for Asia’s annual conference in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted globalism as the key to mutual prosperity among all nations.

Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle company, is warning against President Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and ten percent tariff on imported aluminum while laying off American manufacturing workers.

The headline in the November 19 Wall Street Journal put the matter plainly: There are “Two Americas.” One America that gains from globalization, and another much larger America that loses from globalization. And as we now know, this cleaving of the nation is not just a matter of economics, it’s also a matter of life and death.

Steve Bannon’s “economic nationalism” has much in common with the civic republicanism liberals once prescribed. These are ideas worth debating — not marginalizing using the left’s familiar shrieks of racism.

The Qatar Foundation has been funding U.S. K-12 public schools, seeking to ramp up their Arabic language and cultural curricula with an eye toward globalization.

Former Vice President and renowned globalist Al Gore admitted that President Donald Trump may have won the presidency because voters simply no longer trust so-called “experts” and elites like him after the many failures of “hyperglobalization.”

The number of federally registered political lobbyists has fallen by 14 percent thus far in 2017 from the 2016 total. However, based on data provided by the non-partisan OpenSecrets.org, spending by lobbyists is on track to rise by about 3 percent in 2017.

President Donald Trump’s new communications director Anthony Scaramucci once tweeted that trying to “fight globalization is counterproductive.”

A new report claims that not only low-skilled jobs are threatened by automation, but also many mid-skill level jobs are also at risk.

During a speech at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden argued that in 2016, the Democratic Party “did not talk what it always stood for, and that is how to maintain a burgeoning middle class.”

Billionaire tech entrepreneur and adviser to President Trump, Peter Thiel, declared globalization to be over on Tuesday, claiming it’s “so 2005, it feels so dated.”

Chinese state-run publication Global Times warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was leading the United States into “political chaos,” making the expansion of globalization – and international Chinese influence – necessary for global stability.

(Reuters) — Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company’s platform could be the “social infrastructure” for the globe.

Peter S. Goodman writes in the New York Times that the Davos elite are well aware of the “populist fury” fueled by working-class people around the world who have borne the brunt of globalist economic policies.