Silicon Valley, and the Chinese Connection to
Coronavirus Infection
By James Fulford
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After Feinstein was elected to the
Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same
time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to
colleagues, even once claiming “that in my
last life maybe I was Chinese.” HARIS ALIC
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF
CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS
AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION"
BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional
ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the
ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been
beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics
experts.
“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
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
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Senator
Who Employed Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President
A high-profile U.S. senator with professional
and personal ties to China — including once employing one of its spies — is
backing former Vice President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s
business dealings with the communist regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a
former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced her
endorsement of the former vice president on Tuesday, claiming to have
witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership during their overlapping tenures
in Congress.
What China Has Done to Starve U.S. Hospitals of Key Medical
Equipment is Unforgivable
China
lied and people died. In December, China ordered its scientists to destroy
samples that showed they had a pneumonia-like virus on their hands. They
strong-armed doctors from trying to spread the word, kept medical staff in the
dark, and prevented new cases of what we know was the Wuhan Coronavirus, or
COVID-19, from being reported. And now doctors who tried to raise awareness
have vanished. Vloggers documenting the situation on the ground have also
disappeared. China allowed Chinese New Year to be celebrated which led to
scores of people being exposed. In all, some 5 million people had left Wuhan by
the time the Chinese government got its act together. It was too late. And now,
their incompetence caused this pandemic.
The world economy has ground to a halt. And while we’re dealing
with this nonsense, China has also reportedly tried to corner the market on
personal protection equipment which is essential for health care workers around
the world. The Trump administration is fully aware of the situation and is
mulling legal action. The New York Post quoted
one senior lawyer said China’s actions concerning this alleged hoarding is akin
to a first-degree murder charge (via NY Post):
Leading US manufacturers of medical safety gear told the White
House that China prohibited them from exporting their products from the country
as the coronavirus pandemic mounted — even as Beijing was trying to “corner the
world market” in personal protective equipment, The Post has learned.
Now, the Trump administration is weighing legal action against
China over its alleged actions, a lawyer for President Trump said Sunday.
“In criminal law, compare this to the levels that we have for
murder,” said Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump’s re-election
campaign.
“People are dying. When you have intentional, cold-blooded,
premeditated action like you have with China, this would be considered
first-degree murder.”
Ellis said the options under consideration include filing a
complaint with the European Court of Human Rights or working “through the
United Nations.”
Executives from 3M and Honeywell told US officials that the
Chinese government in January began blocking exports of N95 respirators,
booties, gloves and other supplies produced by their factories in China,
according to a senior White House official.
China paid the manufacturers their standard wholesale rates, but
prohibited the vital items from being sold to anyone else, the official said.
Around the same time that China cracked down on PPE exports,
official data posted online shows that it imported 2.46 billion pieces of
“epidemic prevention and control materials” between Jan. 24 and Feb. 29, the
White House official said.
[…]
Michael Wessell, a
founding member of the federal US-China Economic and Security Review
Commission, confirmed the situation and said the Chinese maneuvering had left
American hospitals “starved of PPE to fight this crisis.”
U.S. companies are finding out they don't
own their own factories in China. When they tried to export THEIR medical
equipment, the Chinese government stopped them: nypost.com/2020/04/05/tru…
@nypost
Trump admin weighs legal action over alleged Chinese
hoarding of PPE
This is insane.
U.S. companies with factories in China have tried to export medical supplies to the United States,
Only for the goods to be stopped from being sent by the Chinese government.
We must end our dependency on China!
RT!
U.S. companies with factories in China have tried to export medical supplies to the United States,
Only for the goods to be stopped from being sent by the Chinese government.
We must end our dependency on China!
RT!
China must pay a high price for #Covid_19
Far past time to disentangle and
restructure vital U.S. supply chains.nationalinterest.org/feature/pandem…
Pandemic Problem: America's Supply Chains are Dangerously
Brittle
As of today, U.S. deaths from Wuhan coronavirus
infection are rapidly approaching 10,000. There are over 336,000 cases, most of
which reside in New York City and the tri-state area. President Trump and his
Wuhan virus task force have worked hard to increase testing and create better
models that are currently being shipped out. Ventilators are now being
manufactured as quickly as possible. Distilleries are now making hand
sanitizer. My Pillow is now shifting their production to medical masks, making
anywhere from 10,000-50,000 masks a day. American business has answered the
call. Retired army doctors have also answered the call. But it makes it all the
more maddening when we hear stories about how the Chinese are just bo jangling
around because they’re either West-averse or insufferably greedy.
Josh
Hawley: Counter China’s Plans for Dominance by Ending ‘Forever Wars’
7 Apr 202020
2:34
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote on
Tuesday that the only way America can counter Chinese domination is to end the
“forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hawley
said that the United States has focused more on the response to the coronavirus
outbreak than the country’s engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, he
charged that America cannot respond to the Chinese Communist Party’s plans for
“domination” by remaining involved in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Our
involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently taking a backseat to the #COVID19 crisis,
but let’s remember, the only way we are going to be able to focus on #China and
counter Beijing’s plans for domination is to end the forever wars,” Hawley
wrote. “Can’t have it both ways.”
Our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is
currently taking a backseat to the #COVID19
crisis, but let’s remember, the only way we are going to be able to focus on #China
and counter Beijing’s plans for domination is to end the forever wars. Can’t
have it both ways https://twitter.com/hawleymo/status/1247188890445910018 …
The
Missouri populist’s commentary follows as he said that the country must remain
“laser-focused” on preventing Chinese “domination.” He said that this proposal
will involve revamping America’s military posture towards countering an
increasingly aggressive China.
China
understands that the global pandemic is an inflection point. They are trying to
turn this to their advantage. Make no mistake, they are still pursuing their
global strategic ambitions. The need for us to laser focus on China’s economic
and military ambitions is going to be more urgent once we beat this pandemic,
not less.
Hawley’s
commentary echoes his foreign policy vision, which he unveiled in
November 2019 at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). The senator’s
foreign policy vision would replace the bipartisan foreign consensus that he
called “progressive universalism” with a foreign policy that would benefit the
interests of the American working class.
Hawley
said that the “burden of this nation’s long wars had fallen disproportionately”
on middle-class families.
He
said during his CNAS speech that instead of engaging in further conflict in the
Middle East, America should counter a rising and increasingly imperialist
China, which threatens the freedom of those in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He added
that China has increasingly deployed soft power to pressure American
corporations such as Disney and the NBA to “throw overboard free speech at the
first sign of Beijing’s commercial pressure.”
Hawley
said that “the point of American foreign policy should not be to remake the
world, but to keep Americans safe and prosperous.”
US Lawmakers Call for Full
Investigation Into China’s Pandemic Coverup
March 25, 2020 Updated: March 25, 2020
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik
(R-N.Y.) are calling for an international probe into how Beijing’s initial
handling of the ongoing virus outbreak may have endangered the United States
and the rest of the world.
In a
resolution introduced in both chambers on March 24, the lawmakers asked
Congress to condemn the Chinese regime for its coverup of the outbreak, which
“almost certainly” heightened the CCP virus’s rapid global spread, they
said.
Congress
should also quantify the damage of such acts on the health and economic being
of afflicted nations, the resolution stated.
CCP VIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE
The Epoch
Times uses “CCP virus” to
refer to the pathogen commonly known as novel coronavirus, because the Chinese
Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread
throughout China and create a global pandemic.
One of three
legislative proposals introduced that day to take aim at the Beijing regime,
the resolution also calls on the international community to design a mechanism
for the CCP to deliver compensation accordingly.
“It is time
for an international investigation into the role their coverup played in the
spread of this devastating pandemic,” Hawley said in a joint press release with Stefanik. “The CCP must be held to account for what the world
is now suffering.”
Media reports
have detailed how Chinese authorities censored critical information when the
virus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, located in Hubei province.
On Jan. 1,
Hubei health authorities ordered a
genomics testing company to stop virus testing, destroy all virus samples, and
to keep their findings a secret, according to an expose by Chinese media
Caixin.
Police tracked
down multiple doctors who voiced concerns about the virus on social media,
accusing them of spreading rumors and inciting public fear. Critics of Chinese
authorities’ outbreak response were summoned and
punished, and several outspoken citizen journalists disappeared after they tried to share firsthand videos from Wuhan.
On Jan. 13,
Thailand confirmed the first infection outside of China, a day before the World
Health Organization, citing Chinese investigations, announced that
there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
A University
of Southampton study, currently
in preprint and not yet peer-reviewed, found that China could have stopped up
to 95 percent of the virus’s geographical spread had it enacted containment
measures earlier.
“There is no
doubt that China’s unconscionable decision to orchestrate an elaborate coverup
of the wide-ranging and deadly implications of coronavirus led to the death of
thousands of people, including hundreds of Americans and climbing,” Stefanik
said.
The resolution
also took note of how senior Chinese officials have tried to push the conspiracy theory that the virus originated in the United States.
“Since day
one, the Chinese Communist Party intentionally lied to the world about the
origin of this pandemic,” Hawley said.
On the same
day, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) also introduced a bipartisan resolution to condemn the CCP for the outbreak coverup and disinformation.
Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-Fla.), meanwhile, introduced a bill called “No Chinese Handouts in National Assistance Act” to prevent
any virus-related relief funds from flowing into China.
“Allowing
American taxpayers’ money to go to companies owned by the Communist Chinese
government is antithetical to our ‘America First’ agenda,” he said in a
statement.
Rep. Michael
McCaul (R-Texas) on Tuesday called the CCP’s handling of the outbreak “one of
the worst coverups in human history.”
“This is a
systematic whitewash of what the Communist Party has done in China,” he told
Fox News. He added that the virus “is now wreaking havoc all across the world,
costing not only the lives of people but economic chaos.”
For “the harm,
loss, and destruction their arrogance brought upon the rest of the world,”
Stefanik said, China will need to pay.
“Simply
put—China must, and will, be held accountable,” she said.
Josh
Hawley: Legislation ‘Necessary’ to Address Chinese Monopoly of U.S. Drug,
Medical Supplies
24 Feb 20201,067
2:59
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Monday, contending that it is “inexcusable” that America
relies on China for its medical supply chain. Hawley called hearings and
legislation to determine how to address America’s reliance on Chinese for
producing vital medicine.
The Missouri conservative wrote a
letter to U.S. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn after reports revealed that the
coronavirus has jeopardized the “domestic supply of some 150 prescription
drugs, including antibiotics, generics, and branded drugs.”
Hawley said that the time is coming for Congress to have
oversight and consider legislation to address the insecurity of America’s
medical supply chain.
The degree to which some of our own manufacturers rely on China
to produce life-saving and life-sustaining medications is inexcusable. It is
becoming clear to me that both oversight hearings and additional legislation
are necessary to determine the extent of our reliance on Chinese production and
protect our medical product supply chain.
Reports have revealed the extent to
which China produces and exports the overwhelming majority of pharmaceuticals
to the United States. China exports 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80
percent of active ingredients used to make drugs in Americans.
Another report stated that America
is losing its ability to make pharmaceuticals because of Chinese dumping of
low-price products into the global market.
Rosemary Gibson, the author of China
Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, told Breitbart
News Tonight host Rebecca Mansour that America should pursue a
federal industrial policy to renew domestic manufacturing of medicines and
medical products.
I would have our federal government invest in helping to rebuild
our industrial base using advanced manufacturing technology that can produce
our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less environmental footprint, and
fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw materials to finished drug in one
location all here in the United States.
There will be opponents who say, ‘No, we should let the market
do it.’ The market will never do this. They’ll never make this investment. So
we have to decide as a country, do we want to have some degree of
self-sufficiency in our ability to make medicine? Do we want our military not
to be dependent on China for pharmaceuticals to treat chemical and biological
agents?
Gibson added, “We’ll be depending on China to help us out when
we run out of medicines. The absurdity of it is extraordinary. We have to
decide as a country, do we want to have some capacity to make our own
medicines, or not?”
Josh
Hawley Introduces Legislation to Expose Chinese Monopoly of U.S. Drug, Medical
Supplies
27 Feb 202084
4:34
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced
the Medical Supply Chain Security Act on Thursday to combat potential American
drug shortages created in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China and to
reveal America’s reliance on Chinese manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and
medical devices.
Sen. Hawley said in a statement that
the legislation would provide the country with the information necessary to secure
the medical supply chain. He explained:
The coronavirus outbreak in China
has highlighted severe and longstanding weaknesses in our medical supply chain.
This is more than unfortunate; it’s a danger to public health. Our health
officials need to know the extent of our reliance on Chinese production so they
can take all necessary action to protect Americans. This legislation will give
us the information we need to better secure our supply chain and ensure that
Americans have uninterrupted access to life-saving drugs and medical devices.
The spread of the coronavirus
throughout China has exposed the deep vulnerabilities in the U.S. medical
supply chain as well as the country’s dependence upon China producing
pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Axios reported that the
coronavirus outbreak has jeopardized the American supply of roughly 150
pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, generics, and brand-name drugs. Some of
these drugs do not have alternatives on the market.
China exports 97 percent of all
antibiotics and 80 percent of active ingredients used to make drugs in America.
America is losing its ability to make pharmaceuticals
because of Chinese dumping of low-price products into the global market.
Public health officials at the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) currently have limited resources for assessing
supply chain vulnerabilities. The FDA recently asked Congress for more
statutory authority to require that manufacturers notify the agency when they
discover circumstances that may lead to shortages in essential medical devices.
Giving the FDA more authority would allow the agency to ensure that they can
take the necessary steps to mitigate potential shortages of life-saving drugs
and medical devices.
Hawley’s legislation would:
- Require that manufacturers report
imminent or forecasted shortages of medical devices to the FDA as they
currently do for pharmaceutical drugs.
- Allow the FDA to expedite the review of
essential medical devices that require pre-market approval in the event of
expected shortages reported by a manufacturer.
- Grant the FDA additional authority to
request additional information from manufacturers of essential drugs or
devices regarding their manufacturing capacity, including sourcing of
component parts, sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, use of raw
materials, and any other details the FDA might find relevant to assess the
security of the American medical supply chain.
Hawley’s legislation follows as the
Missouri populist wrote a letter this week to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn,
asking Hahn what actions he and the agency can take to ensure that American
citizens do not face shortages of life-saving drugs and medical drugs.
The Missouri senator said Tuesday
that the coronavirus outbreak has proved that America needs to “stop relying on
China for our critical medical supply chains.”
If
the #Coronavirus crisis makes anything clear, it’s that we
need to stop relying on #China for our critical medical supply chains. I
will introduce legislation this week to jump start that effort. Details to
follow https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/world/asia/coronavirus-news.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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Rosemary Gibson, the author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China
for Medicine, recently told Breitbart News Tonight host
Rebecca Mansour that the United States should pursue an industrial policy to
renew domestic manufacturing of medicines and medical products in the homeland.
I would have our federal government
invest in helping to rebuild our industrial base using advanced manufacturing
technology that can produce our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less
environmental footprint, and fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw
materials to finished drug in one location all here in the United States.
Hawley also said Tuesday that the
Donald Trump administration should consider additional travel restrictions to
combat the spread of the coronavirus throughout the United States.
“This is a no-brainer. It’s not just
China any longer. With the rise of cases in Europe & Asia, we need to take
additional steps to protect Americans,” Hawley tweeted.
This
is a no-brainer. It’s not just China any longer. With the rise of cases in
Europe & Asia, we need to take additional steps to protect Americans https://twitter.com/kylieatwood/status/1232654412440625152 …
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