Nikki speech comes two days after her India-American Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy delivered a foreign policy speech on China in Ohio. Both Ms Haley and Mr Ramaswamy have emerged as popular GOP candidates after Donald Trump.
Washington:
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, an Indian-American, has said that China is “preparing for war” and that it poses an “existential threat” to the US and the rest of the globe.
In a significant policy speech on the economy in the crucial early primary state of New Hampshire on Friday, Ms. Haley said that China has spent half a century planning to topple the United States and that, in certain regards, the Chinese military is already on par with the US armed forces.
Her address came two days after that of her Republican opponent Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American who spoke on China’s foreign policy in Ohio. Following former US President Donald Trump, Ms. Haley and Mr. Ramaswamy have both been well-liked GOP contenders.
Nikki Haley
“Our national survival depends on our ability to be strong and proud, particularly in the face of Communist China. An existential danger is China. It has been planning to defeat us for fifty years,” Haley stated. She said that manufacturing jobs in America had been grabbed by China.
“Our trade secrets have been taken. Today, it is seizing control of key sectors in businesses ranging from medicine to cutting-edge technology. China has transformed from a developing nation to the second-largest economy in the world in an unprecedented amount of time, she claimed.
“It intends to be the first in every way. The Communist Party’s goals are also obvious. The former two-term South Carolina governor claimed that they were constructing a sizable, modern military that was capable of controlling Asia and beyond and posing a threat to the United States.
“China’s military is already comparable to the US military in several ways. They outperform us in other areas. The leaders of China are so sure of themselves that they are erecting a spy facility in Cuba just off our beaches and sending spy balloons into our air.
“Let there be no doubt: The Communist Party is gearing up for war. And the Chinese leadership wants to triumph,” she alleged.
Haley explained her economic strategy, saying it entails providing middle-class Americans with genuine relief and financial independence. She said that every middle-class family will receive a tax break worth thousands of dollars.
Nobody has a greater understanding of how to manage your money than you do. You strengthen our economy by making your own decisions, she continued.
The federal gas and fuel tax will be fully eliminated as a start. Savings on gasoline are 18 cents per gallon, and on diesel, 24 cents. That will assist households that are dealing with historically high gas prices. Additionally, we can finance our roads without a federal gas tax. With the trillions that Washington still has available, we’ll continue to build our roads and cease diverting funds to environmental giveaways. Road funding should be used to construct roads, not hiking and biking trails, she continued.
Ms. Haley stated that she would lower income taxes for working families if she were to become president of the nation.
She added that the 500 billion dollars in green energy subsidies proposed by President Joe Biden would also be removed by her administration. “No more cash windfalls for China,” she proclaimed.
The former US ambassador to the UN declared she would veto any budget plan that didn’t restore US expenditure to levels seen before the COVID scandal.
“We’re not discussing spending levels from the 1950s; rather, it was only four years ago. During the pandemic, we saw a tremendous and in many respects, irresponsible rise in spending. The pandemic has ended, though. Maintaining those same outrageous amounts of spending is ludicrous, she argued.
“Under my proposal, term limits won’t simply apply to politicians; they’ll also apply to bureaucrats. The maximum tenure for a bureaucrat in one position is five years. They will become better public servants as a result, staying away from the politics and power grabs that rot our system. And those who aren’t working out ought to be fired. Serving in the government is an honor, not a right. No one has the authority to take away your freedom, Ms. Haley continued.
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