Cotton Warns Against China Trying to Steal Coronavirus Vaccine from U.S., Urges ‘Hard Look’ at Visas Granted to Chinese Nationals
2:17
Sunday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said, based on the past, the Chinese government was likely still attempting to steal intellectual property from the United States, including a coronavirus vaccine.
“[T]he Chinese Communist Party has been stealing America’s intellectual property for decades, and they aren’t going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic,” he said. “In almost every state in the union, there are active cases against Chinese nationals. In Arkansas, for instance, they are accused of having stolen proprietary genomes of our farmers in East Arkansas. But in the middle of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual property in the world? It’s the research that our great laboratories and life science companies are doing on prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and ultimately a vaccine. So I have little doubt that the Chinese intelligence services are actively trying to steal America’s intellectual property as it relates to the virus that they unleashed on the world, because, of course, they want to be the country that claims credit for finding those drugs or finding a vaccine, and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world.”
Cotton told FNC’s Maria Bartiromo a “very hard look” should be taken at Chinese Nationals coming to the United States to study in specific fields.
“[I]t’s a scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest minds to go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people. So, I think we need to take a very hard look at the visas that we give the Chinese nationals to come to the United States to study, especially at the post-graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields. If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America. They don’t need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America.”
Follow Jeff poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
Silicon Valley, and the Chinese Connection to Coronavirus Infection
By James Fulford
VDare.com Blog
https://vdare.com/posts/dr-norm-matloff-on-covid-19-silicon-valley-and-the-chinese-connection-to-coronavirus-infection
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
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.
I’ve worked closely with Vice
President Biden and I’ve seen firsthand his legislative ability, his statesmanship,
and most importantly his moral fortitude (NO, IT’S NOT A JOKE, BUT THEN
FEINSTEIN IS THE MOST SELF-SERVING CORRUPT POL IN U.S. HISTORY). During his
time in Congress and in the White House, Joe Biden has been a tireless fighter
for hard working (ILLEGALS) MEXICAN families.
BLOG: FEINSTEIN LOVES BIDEN BECAUSE SHE WALLOWS IN CORRUPTION.
BIDEN HAD SPENT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE SUCKING OFF BRIBES.
“He’s a
totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest
corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally
than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in
all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the
benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing
and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally
out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!”
He
wants to raise taxes, open the borders, let you pay for illegal aliens’ sex
changes, and spark a civil war by taking guns from the people who don’t commit
crimes.
Joe Biden? Seriously?
The
establishment narrative on Joe Biden is, to put it mildly, malarkey. Gropey J
actually is everything the liberals accuse Donald Trump of being – bizarre,
vulgar, dumb, corrupt, incompetent, and utterly unfit to be president. But yet
the Creepy Veepy is so much more. In the last month, this totally not-senile,
not-at-all-weird guy has assembled a track record of freaky behavior that would
put mid-eighties Crispin
Glover to
shame.
Let’s
review…
Corn Pop
is old news. Biden’s latest rambling onion-on-the-belt monologue was something about
little kids at a pool rubbing his leg hair or something – it’s so random I’m
not even linking to it. There’s no best-case scenario here – he’s just creepy.
Then, for
no other reason than I guess he felt like a snack, he started gnawing on his
wife’s fingers in public and on camera. You know, like people do. You wonder
what the thought process there was…
“Hey,
sure are lots of cameras…gosh, I’m kind of hungry…oh look, an index finger.
Yum.”
I’m a
little surprised he didn’t pull out a packet of ketchup.
But the
best part was when some guy pointed out that, you know, Biden’s loser son Lil’
Crackpipe is the poster child for corruption and Sane Joe started spazzing out
and calling him “fat” and challenging him to a push-up contest for some reason.
This is
just odd. And this is the candidate who, amazingly, is still in the lead for
the Democrat nomination.
And then
there’s the groping females thing. He still does it occasionally, though the
media does its best to curtail coverage of his lecherous creeping. Do you
believe there’s any chance at all that he is not going to, at some point, have
some horrifying incident with some female at the White House, you know, like
grabbing the Queen for a hug n’ rub, or walking absent-mindedly into the press
room in a flapping robe with Little Joe and the gang in effect?
And let’s
be charitable. No one has ever called Joe Biden “smart.” Well, maybe as a joke.
The fact is that he’s a 40-watt guy in a 100-watt world. Haters say Trump is
dumb, but he is demonstrably not dumb. The thing about Trump is that because
our garbage elite hates him it tends to ascribe all possible negative
characteristics to him regardless of whether they apply. Trump is cunning,
crafty and has a keen sense of strategy. You may dislike him, but that does not
change the fact that alone, against the full force of the elite and its media
serfs, he prevailed and continues to prevail. If Trump, who managed to figure
out that it would be a good idea to campaign in Wisconsin, is dumb, what does
that make Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit and the sobbing losers who supported
her?
No one
can seriously argue that Joe Biden is smart, and no one does. They’ll either
call you “racist” or start complaining about Trump. But you won’t get anyone
comparing the former veep to Stephen Hawking. They just sort of elide past his
staggering stupidity, perhaps hoping that whoever he picks for his veep will
give him a rubber ball to play with and lock him in an Oval Office closet when
it's time to do some presidenting.
He’s a
totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest
corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally
than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in
all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the
benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing
and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally
out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!
Understand
that Biden sees nothing wrong with this. Nothing. And that means there will be
exponentially more of it. Hell, the useless DoJ under Trump won’t prosecute
obvious graft. Do you think a DoJ that’s thrilled to have a fellow traveler
back in the White House is going to root out Biden's business badness? You do?
Well, then meet my unicorn Chet.
And
SloJoe is utterly incompetent. This is the guy who thought they should let bin
Laden skate. As Robert Gates, no Trumpie, said, "I think he has been
wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the
past four decades.”
This is
the guy who wants to take your doctor, again, and impose another brilliant
healthcare reform idea, again – all designed to unscrew the last big healthcare
reform the Democrats passed, which he praised as “a big [vulgarity] deal.”
He wants
to obey that tiresome Swedish teenager’s commands to sacrifice at the altar of
the weird weather cult. He wants to appoint all Hawaiian and Scat Franciscan
judges.
He
wants to raise taxes, open the borders, let you pay for illegal aliens’ sex
changes, and spark a civil war by taking guns from the people who don’t commit
crimes.
When you
think of a calm, steady, wise presence guiding the nation, you do not think of
Joe Biden, though that’s what is allegedly needed to end the nightmare of the
Trump presidency – you know, the record job numbers and the lack of stupid new
wars. You think of Obama and Stumbles McMyturn, only dumber and touchier.
Just
recently, Biden’s campaign ran an ad alleging that foreigners were “laughing”
at Donald Trump. Is there any Democrat anywhere who takes America’s side in a
dispute with malicious aliens? In any case, those tin pot euroweenies had
plenty to cry about – Donald Trump has forced them to pay up for NATO. Of
course, that will end too if Joe takes office. We’ll return to business as
usual – the business as usual of being shafted for the benefit of the global
bigshots.
Basically,
we’ll get rid of all the peace and prosperity that Trump has brought and get
back to normal – that is, people like us being plundered by the garbage elite.
Trump has
a track record of success, and Democrats hate him. Joe has a track record of failure,
corruption, and creepiness. Well, I guess we know why the Democrats seem to love him.
It’s out
now, my new novel Collapse, the action-packed yet hilarious
sequel to People's Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire. Friendless loser Never Trumpers
hate it, so you’ll love it.
***One last thing. On
Wednesdays, there's BONUS KURT if you're a Townhall VIP member. Sign up today. Three
Kurts is better than two.
And here's the biggest laugh of all: the Democrat party's
only hope is a confused old man whose corruption is oozing into
the
open only because the Democrats wagered everything on
impeaching President Trump.
What to do About China
Much
the same way that the Nazis invasion of Poland in the 20th century,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) assaulted the world with a biological agent.
Instead of Panzer divisions rolling down the streets of Warsaw, Communist
China’s invisible biological warfare has stricken the world with economic and
human misery, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and forcing
millions into unemployment lines globally.
Expansionist
China is clearly a military, economic, and health threat to the world. But it’s
reckoning time for the Chinese communist dictatorship. Washington should exert
diplomatic, economic, and military pressure on Beijing that will put China’s
dictator Xi Jingping, and the evil and corrupt CCP under enormous strain.
Here
are four suggestions to counter China’s biological, military and economic
threats:
Economic Distancing: Seize China’s U.S. Treasury Notes
For
America, the China virus attack was a 21st century medical
Pearl Harbor, inflicting tens of thousands of casualties and placing our
healthcare system under enormous strain. To counterattack China’s criminal
negligence and mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic, the U.S. needs to hit
our communist comrades where it hurts the most -- their pocketbooks.
China
owns approximately $1.07 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, according to
the Treasury Department. The United States
government should seize the Chinese treasury obligations that Beijing holds in
their name, and inform the CCP that this is a down payment for the death of
tens of thousands of American citizens and the economic devastation Beijing has
unleased on the U.S. economy. And the U.S. should encourage Canada, the U.K.,
Japan, Switzerland, and other allies to do the same.
Academic Distancing: Shutter China’s Confucius
Institutes in the U.S.
The
nefarious CCP pumps over $10 billion into its Confucius Institute propaganda
machine, funding over 500 Confucius Institutes on high schools, colleges, and
university campuses around the world. In the U.S., there are over 100 Confucius
Institutes on high school, college, and university campuses, receiving over
$150 million from the Chinese communist dictatorship, according to National Association of Scholars.
The
Chinese Ministry of Education, which is run by the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, infiltrates high
schools, colleges, and universities, brainwashing American students into
accepting communist China propaganda, textbooks and operating funds to enhance
its own image abroad. Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes lack transparency,
threaten academic freedom and give the Chinese communist despots access to the
U.S. education system that China does not extend to American programs,
according to a 2019 report by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations.
All
Confucius Institutes in the United States should be shut down, and all Chinese
“teachers” deported. America must end China’s unfettered access to our research
centers and universities. Also, the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, based in Washington, D.C., should be shuttered.
Seize and Sell all CCP Property in the U.S.
The
Chinese Communist Party is our enemy, so why don’t we treat them that way?
Let’s start by seizing all CCP property in the United States and selling it as
reparations for the damage they have caused to our economy. The U.S. federal
government should impound and sell all CCP property in the U.S., including
companies, real estate, bank accounts, aircraft, ocean-going vessels, and all
other CCP assets in the USA.
Bring Back “Made in the USA”
The
U.S. federal government should pay U.S. manufactures to leave China and return
to the USA. It’s time to bring U.S. manufacturing back home. Americans want to
buy high-quality “Made in the USA” products; not cheap Chinese junk that breaks
right away. To encourage U.S. manufactures to make products in the United
States, the U.S. federal government should offer companies a 100 percent
federal tax relief for 10-years if they open and produce products here in the
USA.
It
won’t be easy or painless, but America ought to fundamentally reconsider its
relationship with China. It is imperative that we have a “hard decoupling” of
the U.S.-China relationship, according to political scientist Andrew A. Michta,
writing in the American Interest. It’s time to reduce our
reliance on China as a manufacturing base.
Only
one adversary poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States; that
adversary is China.
Now
that the Chinese Communist Party has murdered tens of thousands of people
globally, the U.S. and its allies are being held hostage by the
criminals that run the CCP. China is repeatedly singled out for its unfair
trade practices, currency manipulation, support for rogue regimes like North
Korea and Iran, proliferation of nuclear arms, cyberattacks on free societies,
widespread human rights abuse at home, and undermining international
institutions. And now, you can add bioterrorism to the list.
It’s
time to cut our ties with Communist China. This is a very dangerous time for
the world. We should expect that the CCP will become more repressive
domestically, aggressive internationally, and confrontational in the wake of
the China virus.
And
one final thought: Let’s make the China plague the last Chinese import into the
U.S.A.
Octavio Nuiry is a former New Orleans Times Picayune columnist. He can be reached at onuiry@gmail.com or (562) 537-2901.
The Democratic
Party Is Wounded and Dangerous
Beware the wounded animal. In
pain and desperation, it will do violent things. It seems to me no
coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on Super Tuesday was followed by
Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening conservative members of the Supreme
Court on Wednesday.
Joe Biden is hardly Lancelot to President
Trump's dragon. The Democrats and the Deep State needed a
first-class warrior; instead, their best option is a walking advertisement for
Alzheimer's awareness. In
his best days, Joe Biden was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting
his adversaries in the back. When he wasn't using his position of
power for financial gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his
family line their own pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and
stumbling shell of an unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion
while his wife does his fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what
happens to the shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just
cast your eyes upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of
Democratic corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic
Party usually keeps far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment;
now he's the main event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or
Tom Perez is going to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a
freak-show carnival attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to
occasionally jumble audible words together into a sentence. The
Democrats needed a man who could command a movement; all they got was a man who
can barely control his own.
I'm not saying President Trump's
re-election is in the bag. Far from it. We've never seen
such an array of villains acting in concert to take down an American
president. The Democratic Party has most of the permanent
bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump Republicans), Wall
Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe, global warming
doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic Antifa terrorists
here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump from the White
House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence agencies and
clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant that duty
commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of history. After
orchestrating a coup against the American president, however, it is not unusual
to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC all tirelessly justifying
their criminal acts on cable news each night. The corporate news
media and institutional government have spent years trying to gin up enough
hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings of the president and ritual
re-enactments of his assassination during summer theater might lead the
American people to clamor for the real thing.
So, no, the 2020 election will not be
over until all the votes have been counted on November 3, and it becomes clear
that we have successfully preserved Western civilization for at least a little
while longer from this most recent manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683
siege. All I am saying is that Joe Biden was never meant to be the
establishment's champion for resurrecting their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential nominee,
someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while stringing
words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly
inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his
expiration date who sounds less crème
de la crème and more soused in crème de menthe. The
Democratic Party may depend on dead voters to win elections, but running dead
candidates is another thing altogether.
So just because the cable news anchors
and Carville clones are all high-fiving each other and cheering for managing to
narrowly prevent a communist disciple of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the
Democratic nomination for president by the beginning of March, don't forget how
disappointed they are at heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the
nomination, the Democratic Party will have managed to take all the aloof,
plain, manila-folder blandness of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness
and energy of a nursing home after pill rounds. This is the one whom
the commentariat is celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked
from running in 2016 because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when
he was four years younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery since the
Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being strangely
"articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive shoulder-rubber whose
chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the wives and daughters of
White House officials and visiting dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits
because the previous Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by
losing over a thousand elected officials across the country during his time in
office that the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just
hoping to make it to bed each afternoon before saying something so
inappropriate or illogical or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's
Dear Leader by default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours,
his handlers have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice
in Biden's head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with
wonderful-smelling hair." "Comeback
Joe"? More like "Come back, Joe!"
The Democrats and the Deep State have
spent the last four years constructing the greatest wag-the-dog spectacle
America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up the malfeasance and criminality
of the last administration, while preventing the current one from achieving too
many victories. Considering that
Brennan and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling,
they've been remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus are behind us,
the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and Deep State's
ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to an
end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay,
regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the
past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save
them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed judgment
is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one
"reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his
"moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal,
Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's what
small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
The GOP has apparently decided to scapegoat China for the coronavirus pandemic. But this will be pointless unless it includes the immigration dimension. A ban on further Chinese immigration and the removal of Chinese nationals and Chinese government-funded institutions from U.S. universities are at least as important as ensuring American control of essential American industries. The GOP has to become the nationalist “Workers Party” that President Donald Trump promised in 2016 if it wants to avoid an electoral bloodbath, and immigration has to be at the center of that transformation.
Trump is correct to note that Democrats/ Main Stream Media outlets attacked him when he first implemented the Chinese travel ban on January 31. Many called him “xenophobic” and said travel bans “didn’t work” [After attacking Trump’s coronavirus-related China ban as xenophobic, Dems and media have changed tune, by Gregg Re, Fox News, April 1, 2020]. In early February, a massive pro-China parade took place in New York City, now the center of the outbreak. Democrat Mark D. Levine, chairthing of the New York City Council’s health committee (!) celebrated the “defiance” of the “coronavirus scare.”
Similarly, Democrats/ journalists are now complaining that President Trump’s recent immigration suspension is xenophobic [President Trump’s immigration suspension has nothing to do with coronavirus, by Carly Goodman, Washington Post, April 22, 2020]. Of course, Trump’s “immigration ban” is far from a complete moratorium. Foreign workers are not being sent home and the threat to American workers at a time of high unemployment continues.
President Trump has good instincts, but, as usual, poor execution. Once again Jared Kushner is pushing back against a full immigration moratorium [America has a Jared Kushner Problem, by Pedro Gonzalez, American Greatness, April 24, 2020]. Rep. Paul Gosar was right to comment that “the very last thing we need to do is import additional foreign labor” [Gosar Reacts to Executive Order Halting Immigration, Paul Gosar, April 21, 2020].
The MSM has been denouncing the “anti-China” strategy as politically motivated [GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus, by Alex Isenstadt, Politico, April 24, 2020]. It probably is, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Republicans are right to target China in theory, but unless there’s effective execution on Chinese immigration in practice it will not achieve decisive results, economically of politically. Ominously, however, the “GOP memo” cited by Politico makes no mention of immigration.
The three main lines of the memo’s argument are reportedly 1) that China “covered up” the initial outbreak, 2) that Democrats are “soft” on China, and 3) that Republicans will “punish” China. The first is true, the second is still in flux, the last could well be all talk.
- Firstly, the Chinese government did initially cover up the scale of the outbreak.
Hong Kong researchers recently reported Chinese coronavirus cases were far larger than the government reported [China coronavirus cases may have been four times official figure, says study, by Helen Davidson and Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, April 23, 2020]. American intelligence has concluded the same [China concealed extent of virus outbreak, U.S. intelligence says, by Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg, April 1, 2020].
Indeed, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the “true leader of the free world” in many U.S. journalists’ eyes, sounds a lot like Republicans demanding investigations and transparency into China. “I believe the more transparent China is about the origin story of the virus,” she has been quoted as saying, “the better it is for everyone in the world in order to learn from it” [Angela Merkel urges Chinese transparency, by Ebony Bowden, New York Post, April 20, 2020].
And, in fact, the Chinese government still may not have not defeated the virus. A new outbreak was reported in Harbin in the northeast and there is another lockdown in place [Chinese city tightens coronavirus travel curbs in biggest outbreak, Reuters, April 21, 2020].
- Secondly, the Democrats have been soft on China, although they’re wavering.
MSM Democrats used to mock China. For example, one of urban liberals’ high priests, pseudo-comedian John Oliver, joked about Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his developing cult of personality. The ban on comparing Jinping to Winnie the Pooh came in for particular merriment. The televisions with legs known as urban liberals delighted in this mockery.
Now however, such images have been pronounced racist and xenophobic. Thus some Dissident Rightist has been attaching “Wuhan Plague” plaques on Atlanta businesses and streets [‘Wuhan Plague’ plaques found on Atlanta businesses, streets, by Raisa Habersham, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 23, 2020] and, incredibly, this is the subject of a police investigation with JournoFa are screaming for action [These Racist ‘Wuhan Plague’ Plaques Are Popping Up Around Atlanta, by Trone Dowd, Vice, April 23, 2020].
MSM Narrative Enforcers now don’t want Democrats to target China because it supposedly fuels “racism” [An Anti-China Message Didn’t Work for Democrats in 2018 – and It Won’t Work for Biden Now, by Jesse Myerson, The Intercept, April 22, 2020].
Currently Democrats are experimenting with the strategy of saying that it’s President Trump who is too soft on China [Democrats lay out rebuttal to Trump attacks on Biden over China, by Alexi McCammond, Axios, April 16, 2020]. Biden says Trump “rolled over for the Chinese” [Biden and Trump Battle Over Who Is ‘Weak on China,’ by Asma Khalid, NPR, April 22, 2020].
The latest conspiracy theory: Trump is weak on China because he supposedly owes millions to their state bank [Trump is personally indebted to China’s state-owned bank, by Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair, April 24, 2020].
Thus, we have an interesting case of the Narrative still being formed in media res – Democrats and their MSM allies can’t decide whether Trump is in bed with China (as they claimed he was with Russia) or whether taking an anti-China stance is itself racist.
Of course we know from watching the Dem/ MSM flip-flop on whether or not it’s “racist” to report WuFlu’s racial incidence that they are quite capable of resolving this dilemma in shameless disregard of what they said previously. But right now they have provided President Trump with a golden opportunity: take the Biden campaign at its word and push forward even more measures designed to punish the Chinese government.
This would force the Biden campaign to either support him or say it’s not enough. But the latter would lead to more attacks from liberal journalists who think being anti-China is racist to begin with.
- Thirdly, “Blaming China” means nothing unless there are severe consequences on trade and defense policy—but immigration needs to be at the center. As noted above, the GOP memo quited by Politico doesn't even mention it.
President Trump must plug the holes in his supposed immigration moratorium with three moves:
1) The H1-B program and other visa policies should be eliminated entirely and permanently.
Communist China runs second to India in the technical H1B visas, at about 22,000 new ones per year, and many times that number are renewed annually. But nationals of Communist China should not be working in crucial American industries, especially given the long pattern of Chinese espionage.
Already, the MSM is sob-storying that Chinese workers have lost their jobs in America; now would be a good time to for the Trump Administration to prevent them from getting them back. If that means buying one-way tickets, so be it. [Chinese workers in the US are losing their visas with their jobs, but flying home to China is too expensive, by Shen Lu, CNN, April 9, 2020].
2) Chinese nationals should not be studying at American universities in such enormous numbers. There are 350, 000 Chinese students in the US, a number that has tripled in the last decade.
Even the MSM was reporting just before the pandemic truly hit that Chinese military operatives are allegedly obtaining visas to spy on American campuses [American universities are a soft target for China’s spies, say U.S. intelligence officials, by Ken Dilanian, NBC News, February 2, 2020]. NPR reported on American intelligence’s efforts to monitor these spying networks [FBI Urges Universities to Monitor Some Chinese Students and Scholars In The U.S., by Emily Feng, June 28, 2019]. The Chinese government-funded “Confucius Institutes” should also be shut down.
3) A total and complete immigration moratorium must be implemented—not just a “suspension.” Over ten percent of the million legal immigrants the U.S. has recently been accepting each year are from Communist China; there are more than 5 million Chinese immigrants now living in the U.S.[ Key findings about U.S. immigrants , by Jynnah Radford, Pew, June 17, 2019]
I’ve obviously supported this kind of immigration moratorium for years, but the current situation makes it more important than ever.
Mass immigration, especially illegal, is a disease vector. So too are the de-facto foreign colonies that are being formed in our country. For example, even Bill Maher, no Trump supporter, is disgusted by the Chinese “wet markets” that the disease supposedly originated from [Bill Maher blasts ‘PC’ uproar over ‘Chinese virus’ label: ‘We should blame China,’ by Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News, April 11, 2020]. However, “wet markets” and unsanitary slaughterhouses are in New York City itself, with one owner calling them “a big part of New York City culture, especially when you are dealing with different ethnic diversity” [Coronavirus News: Mounting calls to close live animal markets amid COVID-19, by Danielle Leigh, Eyewitness News 7, April 15, 2020].
There should also be a crackdown on American slaughterhouses and factory farming, which aren’t just unhealthy but notorious for their use of illegal workers. This policy would not just protect Americans from disease, but help unemployed Americans find jobs in the post-coronavirus recession.
The Trump Administration can’t afford more cheap talk and no action. “Blaming China” is pointless unless it is accompanied by an immigration crackdown.
Some of these proposed policies may well spook “the markets” or the large corporate interests dependent on trade with China. Yet it’s arguably because President Trump let their short-term perspective delay his response that we’re stuck in this pandemic.
He can’t make that mistake a second time if he wants a second term.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.
No comments:
Post a Comment