An
ambassador from China is lauding Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on President
Trump.
“The
president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take
the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately
prepare the country for a period of crisis,” Clinton wrote on Twitter on
Wednesday.
“Don’t fall for it. Don’t let your friends and family fall for it.”
That
prompted a response from a representative of the communist regime, the Chinese
ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian.
He
shared a tweet from China News Service, a regime-owned agency:
The attached article
“It
is true,” Lin wrote regarding Clinton’s attack that Trump calling coronavirus a
“Chinese virus” is “racist rhetoric.”
“Justice
always speak [sic] loudly.”
Clinton
has repeatedly taken potshots at Trump during the coronavirus crisis.
“Hospitals
are already running out of ventilators and beds. Nurses are using bandanas as
masks,” she typed on Thursday.
Arming China -- The Bill Clinton
Connection
We even
sold them our factories.
March 19, 2020
Michael
Ledeen
Conversations on social media are beginning to stress the urgency
of reconsidering our relationship with the People’s Republic of China. It was
only recently that most Americans discovered that most of our pharmaceuticals
are manufactured in China, and that the Chinese are in a position to withhold
them during an emergency of the sort we now face.
Recent stories have documented Chinese espionage, including the
bribery of top American biochemists at places like Harvard, that entailed the
constant travel of U.S. experts between China and the United States. Given the
short memories of American political leaders, these stories have made it appear
as though espionage is of very recent vintage.
But it is not so. The United States has been arming China for more
than 20 years.
In the Spring of 1997, Stephen Bryen and I wrote a detailed
account in Heterodoxy , a magazine edited by David Horowitz and
Peter Collier, dealing with American export controls of militarily useful
technology. It was entered into the Congressional Record by
Tillie Fowler, a Florida representative.
The theme of the account was how the Clinton Administration was
arming China. Knowingly and deliberately.
It is often said that, in the world of advanced technology,
embargoes or export controls cannot possibly work, because if they don't get it
from us, they'll get it from somebody else.
This is false. To compete with the U.S. militarily, China has to
get our technology, and, most of the time, that means getting it directly from
us.
Steve and I knew that Bill Clinton and his foreign policy team
were busily arming Beijing, which in turn armed “rogue nations” such as Iran,
Iraq, Syria and Libya. Remember this all happened about 25 years ago. We noted
that, on the one hand, it did make sense to sell a very limited amount of
advanced military technology to the Communist Chinese, for example devices for
nuclear safety, or for certain military systems with important civilian
applications, such as satellite launchers. But the Clinton Administration was
not doing that. Instead, it was executing a deliberate
policy—apparently one that had full approval from the top levels of the
Administration, despite the vigorous opposition from government agencies and
from individual officials infuriated at the flow of top technology to China.
This often took the form of selling off some of our finest factories to China,
at pennies on the dollar, and included our finest supercomputers and the key
element to modern jet engines, which had been blocked for export to the Soviet
bloc.
The Pentagon redefined supercomputers as “civilian” products, and
some 46 of them, including IBM, Convex (later, Hewlett Packard) and Silicon
Graphics, were sold, many of them to the Chinese defense industry, or being put
to use in nuclear weapons design.
This represents a truly terrifying hemorrhage, for supercomputers
are the central nervous system of modern warfare. The sales of 46
supercomputers give the Chinese more of these crucial devices than are in use
in the Pentagon, the military services, and the intelligence community…
They enable the Chinese to more rapidly design state-of-the-art
weapons, add stealth capability to their missiles and aircraft, improve their
anti-submarine warfare technology, and dramatically enhance their ability to
design and build smaller nuclear weapons suitable for cruise missiles. Thanks
to the folly of the Clinton Administration, the Chinese can now conduct tests
of nuclear weapons, conventional explosives, and chemical and biological
weapons on supercomputers.
That was the first wave. In the years since, we have bent over
backwards to enable the Chinese to strengthen themselves, and it wasn’t until
President Trump shut down air travel to and from the PRC in early 2020—in
response to the global virus pandemic, not in the name of national
security—that we began to get a grip on the massive influx of Chinese spies.
But it’s important to remember that it all began with an American decision to
arm China.
There are those who say that we had to strengthen China to act as
a bulwark against Russia, but I don’t buy that. The big shift to Chinese
manufacture came because they could make things far more cheaply than others
could. That’s the profit motive, not national security.
Photo: Gage Skidmore
Time to Hold China Accountable for Unleashing Hell on the World
Communist regime engaged in a massive cover-up -- exposing the world to global pandemic and economic meltdown.
March 20, 2020
Despite criticism from elements within the elitist establishment media and some radical progressives, President Donald Trump was correct to refer to the COVID-19 virus as a “foreign virus” or “Chinese virus.” Leading the charge of the president’s critics was none other than CNN’s Jim Acosta, who stated that reference to the virus as “foreign” may strike people as “xenophobic.”
In response, Fox’s Tucker Carlson accurately referred to Acosta as a “poisonous moron .” In fact, Carlson was being kind to Acosta, who works for an organization that has long abandoned actual journalism in favor of propaganda.
The Coronavirus, which has thus far killed at least 9,386 and infected 229,960 others, emerged from the city of Wuhan, which is the capital of Hubei province in the People's Republic of China. Chinese authorities were well aware that they had a pandemic on their hands way back in December but maliciously suppressed information about it. Significantly, The Times of UK, citing a respected and independent Chinese publication, reports that in December Chinese labs identified the pathogen that caused viral pneumonia in patients infected with the coronavirus disease and described the pathogen as highly infectious. A regional health official in Wuhan ordered the compiled samples and related research destroyed. Chinese authorities belatedly acknowledged the highly infectious nature of the disease in late January.
When news of the Wuhan virus began to surface through desperate and often disquieting social media posts, the communist regime of the People’s Republic did what it does best and silenced those responsible for the posts by making them disappear. Needless to say, the regime deactivated their social media accounts as well.
China’s leader Xi Jinping does not handle criticism well. The latest victim of China’s crackdown on information is Ren Zhiqiang, outspoken property tycoon and government critic. After publishing an essay critical of the government’s handling of the outbreak, Ren Zhiqiang disappeared and has not been heard or seen since.
Trump’s national security advisor, Robert O’Brien noted that the calculated Chinese cover-up cost the world two months . Early intervention by virology experts of the CDC could have thwarted an outbreak, or at least minimized it. Affected nations could have stopped flights to and from China earlier, limiting exposure.
In addition to lives lost and disrupted, the Chinese virus has already taken an incalculable toll on the world’s economies. The Stock Market is down by 25 percent. Retirees have watched helplessly as their retirement portfolios dwindle. The unemployment rate in the United States is expected to rise to 6 percent by mid-2021, up from its current 3.5 percent. Businesses are shuttering and bustling metropolitan cities like New York look like ghost towns. It’s almost apocalyptic in scope and scale.
All of this could have been avoided had China been more forthcoming about its Wuhan flu. But there’s more to this story than a mere Chinese cover-up.
There are two theories as to the origin of the Wuhan flu. The first, is that it originated at a Chinese wet market, where live animals like dogs, cats, snakes and Kuala bears are slaughtered in the most filthy and unsanitary conditions. These wet markets are breeding grounds for animal to human virus transmission, and Chinese authorities were well aware of the risks associated with such wet markets.
The second theory is that the virus emerged from a hazardous level 4 bio-weapons facility in Wuhan, located adjacent to the wet market. The virus managed to migrate from the lab, perhaps from an infected bat, to the wet market.
Chinese wet markets are controversial not only because animals in such markets are badly mistreated, but also because they represent a known biohazard to humans. The deadly H7N9 strain , which surfaced in 2013, was believed to have come from one of these Chinese wet markets. The Chinese SARS virus, which surfaced in 2002 also originated from one of these markets.
Yet despite the known hazards posed by these wet markets, Chinese authorities did little, if anything, to shut them down. The Chinese government did eventually shut down the Wuhan wet market but others throughout China, and parts of Asia still operate without regulation or safeguards.
Instead of accepting blame for unleashing hell on the world, the regime has opted to change the narrative, insinuating that the United States was responsible. On March 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian wrote on twitter, “When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army [sic] who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe [sic] us an explanation!” In this regard, the communist government of China is no different that the mullahs of the Islamic Republic, who blamed the coronavirus on America, the Zionists and the Jews.
A government-run Chinese paper also advocated that China halt export of needed medicines to the U.S. to combat COVID-19 in the hope of plunging the U.S. into "the mighty sea of coronavirus.". Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have opted to have their drugs manufactured in China because it’s cheaper. China now maintains a dominant position in the global supply chain for pharmaceuticals.
The West must make China pay dearly for its maleficence. As of December 2019, U.S. debt to China was $1.07 trillion. We can begin the process of just retribution and compensation there. We also have the option of imposing tariffs on China and earmark funds collected from those special tariffs to a selected account aimed at assisting those adversely affected by the Chinese coronavirus. Lastly, the United States must come to the realization that manufacturing jobs must be brought back to America’s shores and America must be restored to the manufacturing giant it once was.
For far too long, Democrats and even some Republicans took a soft approach on China, disregarding its abysmal human rights record, its theft of trade secrets and intellectual property, its unrestricted hacking activities, its illegal encroachment on the South and East China Seas and its attempts to undermine its democratic neighbors like Taiwan. Former Democratic candidate for president, Mike Bloomberg , even went so far as to deny that China was ruled by dictatorship. But the Wuhan virus has brought clarity to China’s malign activities. This is one thing that all Americans, Democrats and Republicans, should agree upon without equivocation.
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