Smear-Beijing drive's goal is to maintain US hegemony – Chinadaily.com.cn

File photo shows the White House and a stop sign in Washington DC, the United States. [Photo/Xinhua] US politicians have been blaming other countries and stakeholders for all the economic and social problems facing the United States, instead of making serious efforts to address them. The political act of passing the buck can be explained through what some call the “frustration-aggression” theory. Passing the buck, or making another country or some ethnic group a scapegoat, has a long history in the US. For example, people of Chinese descent were made scapegoats for the smallpox epidemic, Russia was the scapegoat for…