$ERVANT OF RED
CHINA FOR RAW CA$H, $ENATOR FEIN$TEIN’S DRIVER IS A $PY FOR HER CHINE$E PAYMA$TER$!
“All in all, it was an
incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red
China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
Larry Kudlow, Director of the U.S. National Economic Council
speaks at the Washington Post “The State of Small Business” event in Washington
on Nov. 1, 2018 (Kris Tripplaar for The Washington Post)
Trump’s Top Economic
Adviser: ‘The Principal Culprit Is China’
US president and Chinese leader Xi will hold an official
bilateral meeting in Buenos Aires, says Kudlow
BY
WASHINGTON—The White House’s top economic
adviser said on Nov. 1 that if China does not come up with a satisfactory
offer to meet U.S. trade demands, then President Donald Trump will
continue to aggressively pursue his agenda.
Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, admitted that
the trade war created questions and anxieties among business owners. However,
he defended the president by calling him a “free-trader” who wants to get rid
of all tariff and non-tariff barriers.
“But we are stuck with a lot of foreign unfair trading practices, which
have been harmful to the U.S. workforce and the economy,” he said at a
Washington Post event on small businesses.
“Frankly, the principal culprit is China,” he said. “I think only they
can break the logjam.”
The Trump administration presented Chinese
officials with a list of more than 140 demands during
the first round of trade talks in May. Washington’s demands included opening up
China further to U.S. investments and abolishing the country’s
foreign-ownership caps. The administration has also demanded China end its
aggressive policies such as cyber theft, forced joint ventures, and
intellectual theft.
This whole list is very important to the administration, Kudlow said.
“If they don’t make a satisfactory offer, then the president will
continue to aggressively pursue his agenda. And I think he’s right to do so,”
he added.
Kudlow believes China is getting isolated in the ongoing trade war, as
the United States, Japan, and the European Union officials met in September in
New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly and reached a deal to
tackle China’s unfair trade practices.
That tripartite agreement, Kudlow said, was very important, as it laid
out the brief against non-market economies, such as China.
During the meeting, the officials also agreed to reform World Trade
Organization rules that are no longer effective to tackle practices that
distort international trade.
Trump is planning to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20
(G20) summit in Buenos Aires later this month.
When asked about the goal of the meeting and whether both sides can end
the trade war, Kudlow said: “My crystal ball is not at all clear.
“The agenda is being discussed and worked on in both camps. I think it
will include trade, but I’m not 100 percent sure.”
It will be more than a sidelines meeting, he said, adding that both
sides are considering a very formal, bilateral sit-down meeting that may
include lunch or dinner.
The last round of trade talks with China ended in August with no
concrete steps toward reaching a deal.
Trump said in a tweet on Nov. 1 that he had “a long and very good
conversation” with Xi, offering some hope that trade tensions may cool after
the G20 meeting.
“Just had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping of
China,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “We talked about many subjects, with a heavy
emphasis on Trade. Those discussions are moving along nicely with meetings
being scheduled at the G-20 in Argentina.”
Kudlow believes that an economic downturn in China will have “very
modest effect” on the U.S. economy and small businesses. Despite tariffs, he
said U.S. economic growth expanded in the last two quarters and was on track to
hit the Administration’s 3 percent target for the full year.
When asked if small businesses should expect to see 3 percent growth
again in 2019, Kudlow said, “Yes. Maybe higher.”
A NATION DIES OF OPIOID
ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA,
RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the
policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and
Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical
companies, which have amassed huge profits from the
deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were
not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin
and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in
2012. What are the numbers and profits now?
OPIOID AMERICA:
CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-war-on-america-chin
PRINCETON REPORT:
American middle-class is addicted,
poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our
borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle
America?
OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG
PHARMA
“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”
“Opioids
have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country.
Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to
quell their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”
An aircraft technicians checks the engine of an airplane at the
Chongqing Airport in Chongqing, China, on Feb 5, 2007. (China Photos/Getty
Images)
Chinese Spies Charged
With Trying to Steal US Jet Engine Technology
BY , EPOCH TIMES
Within a month, a Chinese provincial intelligence branch has been
implicated in three U.S. cases of stealing American technologies, with the most
recent case involving espionage to acquire know-how for making turbofan engines
used in commercial airliners.
The alleged culprit is the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security
(JSSD), a branch of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), which is
responsible for counterintelligence, foreign intelligence, and political
security.
According to a U.S. indictment released
by the Department of Justice on Oct. 30, JSSD officers, Zha Rong and Chai Meng,
a division director and a section chief, respectively, led a scheme to steal
turbofan-engine designs being developed through a partnership between a French
aerospace manufacturer and an U.S.-based aerospace company.
Eight others were charged in the conspiracy, including five computer
hackers and malware developers who operated at the direction of the JSSD. Two
others are Chinese employees who worked at the French company’s office in
Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, as company information-technology manager and
product manager.
The 10th person charged was Li Xiao, a computer hacker who used
JSSD-supplied malware to carry out a separate hack on a San Diego-based
technology company.
The JSSD officers targeted more than a dozen companies—mostly in the
aerospace industry—but only Capstone Turbine Corporation, a Los Angeles-based
gas turbine manufacturer, was identified by name. Other companies, including a
Massachusetts-based aerospace company, and two aerospace suppliers in Arizona
and Oregon, manufactured parts for turbofan engines.
The 10 people are charged with conspiring to steal sensitive data “that
could be used by Chinese entities to build the same or similar engine without
incurring substantial research and development expenses,” the indictment said.
At the time of the hacks, which took place from January 2010 through May
2015, a Chinese-state owned aerospace company was trying to develop a
comparable engine for use in aircraft to be manufactured in China and other
countries.
While Chinese-made jets, including the C919 and ARJ21, currently use
foreign engines, the country has been seeking to develop a competitive
homegrown alternative.
“State-sponsored hacking is a direct threat
to our national security. This action is yet another example of criminal
efforts by the MSS to facilitate the theft of private data for China’s
commercial gain,” U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said in a Justice Department
press release.
“The concerted effort to steal, rather than simply purchase,
commercially available products should offend every company that invests
talent, energy, and shareholder money into the development of products,” he
added.
John Brown, FBI special agent in charge of the San Diego field office,
vowed that Chinese criminals would be held “accountable regardless of their
attempts to hide their illicit activities and identities.”
Hacking
The indictment detailed the tactics deployed by the 10 defendants. To
hide the source and destination of their online traffic, defendants used
unidentified software and leased servers to avoid detection.
They deployed many different tactics to hack the data, such as spear
phishing, malware, and using dynamic domain name service (DNS) accounts. DNS
allows users to register different website domain names under a single account
and frequently change the internet protocol (IP) address assigned to a domain
name.
Spear phishing sends emails embedded with malware. Two types of malware,
Sakula and IsSpace, were used by the defendants, to access the email
recipients’ computers. They would send fictitious emails containing website
links that closely resemble legitimate ones, also known doppelganger domain
names. After someone clicks on the link, a hacker can gain access.
The hackers also installed malware on the targeted companies’ web pages,
known as watering-hole attacks, which provide defendants with a way to hack computers
that have visited the web pages.
In January 2014, JSSD officer Chai got access to the French manufacturer
by sending fake emails to employees at the company, pretending to be from the
company’s network manager. Later that same month, one of the indicted employees
at the French company, Tian Xi, installed Sakula malware by inserting a USB
drive, which was provided by an unidentified JSSD officer, onto a computer at
the French company’s Suzhou office.
The case will be prosecuted in Southern California, according to the
Justice Department press release.
Earlier, U.S. federal authorities announced two other cases of espionage
involving JSSD officers.
In early October, Xu Yangjun, a JSSD
intelligence officer, was extradited to the United States from Belgium, to face
charges that he attempted to steal trade secrets related to aircraft jet
engines. Xu will now face trial in federal court in Cincinnati.
Ji Chaoqun, a
Chinese citizen who came to the United States in 2013 and enlisted in the U.S.
Army Reserves in 2016, was arrested in Chicago in late September, on charges
that he had covertly worked for a Chinese intelligence official from JSSD. Ji
tried to recruit engineers and scientists in the United States to work for
China.
Reuters
contributed to this report.
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