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One of the Biden administration’s newest State Department hires has regularly downplayed the threat posed by China and argued against holding the Communist regime accountable for the coronavirus pandemic, comments that clash with an administration that has promised to play tough with Beijing. Rachel Esplin Odell was hired in August to serve as a foreign policy analyst at the State Department, according to her LinkedIn profile. Odell believes “the military threat posed by China to U.S. interests is limited in nature” and that efforts to sanction the CCP for its efforts to hide the “coronavirus would harm America and the...
