𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐜?

The United States, a federalist democracy with more than 300 million citizens and a wide range of worldviews, is a setting in which American politicians frequently label Chinese garlic imports a “national security concern.” Historically, the United States has utilized fear to centralize power by invoking dread in an effort to maintain conformity and unity in a nation that has been perpetually divided. The utilization of fear as a weapon has been implemented to justify foreign policy goals and promote cohesion; irrational fear has been employed to stifle political discourse and engender conspiracy theories.

Beijing is the current focus of US foreign policy, and the administration employs anti-Communist paranoia to tarnish the reputation of any Chinese goods that it disapproves of. The ultimate objective of such fearmongering is to coerce allies into adopting a similar stance and forcibly excluding the target product from the American market. Notably, this was the case with regard to Huawei’s involvement in 5G networks in the West, where it faced allegations of espionage and posed a security threat on behalf of China.

The justifiable ridicule of labeling garlic a “national security concern” demonstrates the ineffectiveness of such panic-inducing strategies. In a politically polarized system with a constitutionally limited central authority, the United States perceives terror as a potent instrument and deterrent to promote unity and conformity.

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