During a tele town hall last week in which he took questions from constituents, Representative Dusty Johnson was asked about the growing alliance between Russia and China. Johnson says Russia should not be considered a legitimate threat.
“Russia is not even a Top 10 economy,” Johnson said. “Russia has a pretty good military yet but is more of a propaganda problem. Three-quarters of all of the disinformation on Facebook comes from Russian troll farms where the Russian government is paying people to turn Americans against one another.”
He says Americans should worry about China.
“Their economy is almost as big as ours. Their navy is bigger than ours. They have technology that our country does not have. They are a bigger trading partner with every country in South America than we are.” Johnson added that the China situation is every bit as big as the Cold War between the USSR and the US from the 1940’s through the 1980’s.
Representative Johnson, who is on the Select Committee on China, says they are bringing legislation to deal with China.