Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said on Monday that Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping’s mindset is much closer to Nazi Germany than the former Soviet Union.

Vance made the comparison during an interview with Hugh Hewitt while discussing what policies a second Trump administration would have when it comes to confronting an increasingly aggressive China.

Vance said that it was obvious that China wants to take over Taiwan, but it was not clear just how badly they desire the island.

“I think part of American policy over the next few years has to be to make it as costly as possible for them to seize it by force,” he said. “This is why it’s important to give the Taiwanese the defensive weapon systems they need … because if we make it harder for Xi to take Taiwan, that’s going to change his calculus as much as possible.”

He noted that war game simulations have shown that it would be “extremely difficult” to repel a Chinese invasion if the Chinese managed to establish a foothold on the island.

He said that the Biden-Harris administration has failed to deliver the weapons that Taiwan needs in a timely fashion to establish deterrence.

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When asked what he knows about Xi, Vance responded that the dictator was “certainly ruthless.”

“I don’t know that he is a Leninist as much as a sort of ultra-Chinese nationalist in some ways,” he said. “I think that the Nazis in the 30s and 40s are sort of a better mental frame for Xi than maybe the Soviets of the 50s and 60s.”

He said that the Chinese believe that they are destined to rule the world and that Western civilization is nothing more than a “blip in the historical radar.”

“And so I think that we have to recognize they have extremely ambitious plans, and we have to have our own ambitious plans to counter it,” he said.

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.@JDVance: Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is a “ruthless” “ultra-Chinese nationalist” who is like “the Nazis in the 30s and 40s” pic.twitter.com/CW46NMVtja

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 21, 2024